Graduate Student, School of Arts, Culture and the Environment
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Dr Elaine Kelly
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About
Sabine Koch began her musicological career in Germany. She graduated with a first class Magister Artium degree in Historical Musicology from the University of Leipzig. Having been awarded a fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in order to conduct research in London, she concluded her M. A. thesis on “Britain – a Land with Music: Peter Warlock’s Songs (1894-1930)” in 2006 with distinction.
At the moment, she is studying for a PhD in historical musicology at the University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral dissertation explores nineteenth-century conceptions of music as a Kunstreligion. Focusing on the complex etymology of art religion, as it was shaped by aestheticians, philosophers, religious scholars, theologians, writers, music critics and musicians, her thesis relies on a detailed examination of archival and printed materials from the turn of the nineteenth century to the late 1860s. Of central concern is how Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Louis Hector Berlioz defined the relationship between music and religion and whether their views were informed by the thoughts of contemporary authors and scholars.
