{{short description|German musicologist}} {{Infobox academic | name = Ulrich Konrad | image = | image_upright = | caption = | birth_name = Ulrich Aloysius Konrad | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|08|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Bonn | death_date = | death_place = | education = {{plainlist| * University of Bonn * University of Vienna }} | occupation = Musicologist | title = Senior professor | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * University of Bonn * University of Vienna }} | thesis_title = Otto Nicolai (1810–1849): Studien zu Leben und Werk | thesis_year = 1984 | discipline = Musicology | workplaces = {{plainlist| * Hochschule für Musik Freiburg * University of Würzburg }} | doctoral_students = {{plainlist| * Elam Rotem }} | awards = {{plainlist| * Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize * Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany }} }} '''Ulrich Aloysius Konrad''' (born 14 August 1957) is a German musicologist and professor at the Institute for Music Research of the University of Würzburg. He is considered an expert on European music of the 17th to 20th centuries, especially the works of Mozart, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. He wrote a biography, ''Wolfgang Amadé Mozart'', and studied the composer's sketches.
== Career == Born in Bonn, Konrad studied musicology, German studies and history at the Universities of Bonn and Vienna. His doctoral thesis in 1983 dealt with the composer and conductor Otto Nicolai, who influenced the composition and performance practice of the orchestra in the middle of the 19th century with the founding of the Vienna Philharmonic. After Konrad's habilitation in 1991 at the University of Göttingen with a study on Mozart's creative style, he taught as a professor of musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1993, and in 1996 became professor of musicology at the University of Würzburg. He is chairman of the Academy for Mozart Research of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, and project manager of the Robert Schumann Complete Edition and of the Edition ''Richard Wagner Schriften'' (RWS).<ref name="Leopoldina" /><ref name="Bavaria" />
== Research == Konrad studied Mozart's work intensively. His biography, ''Wolfgang Amadé Mozart'', appeared in 2005, published by Bärenreiter.<ref>[https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=showFullRecord&currentResultId=auRef%3D122801083%26any¤tPosition=11 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart] German National Library</ref> Looking at sketches and fragments, Konrad was able to draw conclusions about Mozart's method of composition. He found that Mozart planned his compositions much more thoroughly than previously assumed, going through several stages of development.<ref name="Würzburg" /> He published these findings in a monograph in 1991 and also published annotated editions of all of Mozart's sketches and fragments.<ref name="Würzburg" />
Konad has also dealt with <!-- organ tablatures of the 15th to 17th centuries, with -->instrumental ensemble music of the 17th century and with the history and methodology of musicology.<ref name="Leopoldina" />
== Honours == In 1996 Konrad was awarded the Dent Medal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rma.ac.uk/awards/dent_medal_winners.htm|title=RMA Awards: Recipients of the Dent Medal|date=19 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119182516/http://www.rma.ac.uk/awards/dent_medal_winners.htm|accessdate=16 December 2021|archive-date=2010-01-19}}</ref> In January 1999 he received the Silver Mozart Medal of the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg<ref name="Würzburg">[http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/47869/ Auszeichnung für Würzburger Mozartforscher] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208144408/http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/47869/ |date=2019-12-08 }} University of Würzburg</ref> for his standard work on Mozart's creative style and his complete edition of Mozart's sketches. In 2001 Konrad was the first and so far only musicologist to receive the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dfg.de/aktuelles_presse/preise/leibniz_preis/2001/konrad/forschung.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205182111/http://www.dfg.de/aktuelles_presse/preise/leibniz_preis/2001/konrad/forschung.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-12-05 |title=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2001 / Preisträger im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm 2001 / Professor Dr. Ulrich Konrad | date = 2001}}</ref>
Konrad is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities,<ref name="Leopoldina">[https://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Mitglieder/CV_Konrad_Ulrich.pdf Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Ulrich Konrad] Leopoldina 17 July 2016</ref> the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina<ref>[https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/ulrich-konrad/ Ulrich Konrad] on the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina</ref> and the Academia Europaea as well as correspondent member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen and the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.<ref>Member entry of [http://www.adwmainz.de/mitglieder/profil/prof-dr-phil-ulrich-konrad.html Ulrich Konrad] at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, retrieved on 8 December 2019</ref> In 2017 he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.<ref name="Bavaria">[https://www.stmi.bayern.de/med/pressemitteilungen/pressearchiv/2017/434/index.php Bayerns Innenstaatssekretär Gerhard Eck händigt Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande an Johanna Falk, Ulrich Feldmann, Prof. Dr. Gert Feser und Heike Kraft sowie Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse an Prof. Dr. Ulrich Konrad aus] Bavaria, 28 November 2017</ref><ref>[https://www.acv-deutschland.de/aktuelles/bundesverdienstkreuz-1.-klasse-an-ulrich-konrad Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse an Ulrich Konrad] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328054343/https://www.acv-deutschland.de/aktuelles/bundesverdienstkreuz-1.-klasse-an-ulrich-konrad |date=2022-03-28 }} acv-deutschland.de</ref>
== Publications == * {{cite book | last=Konrad | first=Ulrich | title=Johann Sebastian Bach im Wien der Schubert-Zeit : Akademievorlesung, gehalten am 13. Januar 2004 | publisher=Joachim Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften In Kommission beim Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht | publication-place=Hamburg Göttingen | year=2004 | isbn=978-3-525-86328-2 | oclc=57730242 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Konrad | first=Ulrich | title=Werkstattblicke : Haydn, Beethoven und Wagner beim Komponieren beobachtet | publisher=Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Steiner | publication-place=Mainz Stuttgart | year=2014 | isbn=978-3-515-10823-2 | oclc=885181033 | language=de}} * (as editor: ''Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch des Allgemeiner Cäcilien-Verband für Deutschland'', Regensburg.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.acv-deutschland.de/module.php5?fid=7&ident=19&k_fid=7&k_ident=18&k_mod=vorlagen&mod=vorlagen|title=Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch|accessdate=16 December 2021|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210226/http://www.acv-deutschland.de/module.php5?fid=7&ident=19&k_fid=7&k_ident=18&k_mod=vorlagen&mod=vorlagen|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''Zwischen Exzellenzinitiative und Massenbetrieb: Quo vadis Universität'', in ''{{Ill|KDStV Cheruscia Würzburg|de}}-Blätter.'' volume 92, 2015, {{p.|12|22}}.
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== External links == * {{cite web | title=Konrad, Ulrich, Prof. Dr. | website=Institut für Musikforschung, Uni Würzburg | date=8 December 2023 | url=https://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-wuerzburg.de/team/konrad-ulrich-prof-dr/ | language=de | access-date=8 January 2025}} * [https://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibniz-preis/2001/index.html#5 Prof. Dr. Ulrich Konrad – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preisträger 2001] Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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