Walburga Litschauer
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Walburga Litschauer (born 15 October 1954) is an Austrian musicologist and Franz Schubert scholar.
Born in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Litschauer studied music and theatre studies at the University of Vienna and completed piano training at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. In 1979, she passed the State examination in piano, in 1980 she received her doctorate and in 2005 her habilitation at the University of Vienna. In 2015, the professional title "Professor" was conferred on her.
Litschauer was initially a contributor to the Anton Bruckner Complete Edition. Since 1980, she has headed the Vienna office of the New Schubert Edition at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and since 1990 she has been a member of the editorial board. From 1990 to 1995, she was the editor of the Musicologica austriaca.[1]
Litschauer is a member of the board of directors of domestic and foreign scientific societies, from 1998 to 2012 she was president of the Austrian Music Society, from 2004 she was deputy chairwoman of the Carinthischer Sommer festival, from 2010 to 2016 its chairwoman.[2]
Prizes and awards
- Recognition Prize "Grand Prix Franz Schubert" for exceptional achievements in the field of Schubert research, 1992.
- Grand Decoration of Honour of the Province of Carinthia and Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 2008.
- Werner Welzig Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2013.
- Honorary member of the International Schubert Society, 2014
- Awarded the professional title professor, 2015.[3]
Conference conception and organisation
- "Music and Music Research in Carinthia", Symposium, Ossiach (in the framework of the "Carinthian Summer"), 29 June 1989.
- "Schubert and his Friends", International Schubert Conference, Vienna, 22–26 May 1997 (together with Eva Badura-Skoda, Carmen Ottner and Gerold Gruber).
- First International Workshop on Schubert Reception, Vienna, Austrian Music Society, 12–17 May 2003 (together with Gernot Gruber and Michael Kube).
- "Brahms' Schubert-Rezeption im Wiener Kontext", International Symposium in cooperation with the Musicological Institute of Kiel University and the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, Musikverein, Vienna, 12–13 September 2013 (together with Otto Biba, Ingrid Fuchs, Gernot Gruber, Katharina Loose and Siegfried Oechsle).
- "Representation and Staging. Carinthian Water Music - Once and Now", symposium, Carinthian State Archives Klagenfurt, Festsaal, 9 June 2016 (organised by Carinthian Summer).
