Associate Professor Rebekka Sandmeier PhD Trinity College Dublin, Habilitation Münster, LRSM
Head of Musicology

Rebekka Sandmeier studied music and modern English literature at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). In 1997 she completed her Ph.D. in musicology with a thesis on „Text and Music in German Operas of the 1920s“. From 1999 to 2008 she worked as a lecturer in Musicology at the University of Muenster (Germany) where she was awarded the Habilitation with a study on „Sacred vocal polyphony and early humanism in England“. In 2009 and 2010 she was deputy professor of musicology at the universities of Potsdam (Germany) and Muenster (Germany).

She has published widely on English music, opera and oratorio as well as music of the 15th, 19th and early 20th century. Here current research interest centres on oratorio in Germany in the 19th century – on the reception of G.F.Handel’s oratorios and on oratorios about the apocalypse.

In her spare time she plays violin (baroque, modern) and viola da gamba in various ensembles.

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