Federico Celestini (born 5 December 1964) is an Italian musicologist. Since 2011 he has been professor of musicology at the
University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Life
Federico Celestini was born in Rome. He studied violin at the Musikhochschule Giulio Briccialdi in
Terni, Italy, and musicology, aesthetics and literature at the
Sapienza University of Rome. He received his doctorate in 1998 and the
Habilitation in 2004, both in Musicology, at the
University of Graz. At the same time, he worked as a member of the Special Research Project "Modern - Vienna and Central Europe around 1900" in the Musicology department at the university until 2005. From 2008 to 2011, Celestini was a lecturer at the Institute of Music Aesthetics at the
University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz. Celestini has taught and conducted research as a professor at the Institute of Musicology at the
University of Innsbruck since October 2011.
Die frühen Klaviersonaten von
Joseph Haydn. Tutzing: Schneider, 2004 (Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 52),
ISBN3-7952-1168-9.
(with
Andreas Dorschel) Arbeit am Kanon. Ästhetische Studien zur Musik von Haydn bis Webern. Vienna, London, and New York: Universal Edition, 2010 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung 51),
ISBN978-3-7024-6967-2.
(edited with Helga Mitterbauer), Ver-rückte Kulturen. Zur Dynamik kultureller Transfers. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2003; second corrected ed. 2011,
ISBN978-3-86057-050-0.
(edited with Moritz Csáky and Ulrich Tragatschnig), Barock – Ein Ort des Gedächtnisses. Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: Böhlau, 2007,
ISBN978-3-205-77468-6.
(edited with Gregor Kokorz and Julian Johnson), Musik in der Moderne/Music and Modernism. Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: Böhlau, 2011 (Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, 9),
ISBN3-205-77438-8.
^'Die Autoren', in Federico Celestini and
Andreas Dorschel, Arbeit am Kanon. Ästhetische Studien zur Musik von Haydn bis Webern (Vienna, London, and New York: Universal Edition, 2010), 232.
External links
Personal page at the Institute for Musicology, the University of Innsbruck