Musik
Prof. Dr. Matthew Gardner
Musikwissenschaft Alte Musik
Vita
Having studied musicology, organ and harpsichord at Newcastle University (UK), Matthew gained his PhD at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 2007 before working there an assistant professor in musicology from 2008–2011. At the same department he spent three years on a German Research Foundation (DFG) fellowship studying singers in early eighteenth-century Britain. From 2014–2017 he led the research group ‘OPERA – Spektrum des europäischen Musiktheaters in Einzeleditionen’ at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main before taking up a professorship (Akademie-Juniorprofessur) at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in 2017. In summer semester 2024 he was a substitute professor at the University of Hamburg. Matthew joined the University of the Arts Bremen as Professor of Musicology (Early Music) in April 2025.
Matthew is a member of the Editorial Board of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, a member of the Vorstand of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft, Halle (Saale), and Secretary to the Council of the Handel Institute, London. He is also the music reviews editor Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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- Publications
Books
- (ed. with Christine Martin), Schubert’s Piano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).
- (ed. with Alison DeSimone), Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge:
- Cambridge University Press, 2020; paperback edition 2022).
- (ed. with Hanna Walsdorf), Musik – Politik – Identität (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2016); online open access edition: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?univerlag-isbn-978-3-86395-258-7
- (with Sara Springfeld), Musikwissenschaftliches Arbeiten: Eine Einführung (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2014; 2nd
- edition 2019; eBook 2016).
- Handel and Maurice Greene’s Circle at the Apollo Academy: The Music and Intellectual Contexts of Oratorios, Odes and Masques (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2008).
Special Issues
- (with David Vickers), ‘Handel’, Early Music, 49/2 (2021). doi.org/10.1093/em/caab040
Articles and Book Chapters
- ‘Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Franz Schubert’s Masses’, in Hans Joachim Hinrichsen (ed.), Beethovens Missa solemnis: das „gröste Werk, welches ich bisher geschrieben“ (Bonn: Verlag Beethoven-Haus), forthcoming.
- (with Angelika Zirker and Stefan Morent), ‘‘Sing unto the Lord a new song’: Reworkings of the Psalms and their Musical Settings in Early Modern England’, in Mathias Bauer, Jan Stievermann and Angelika Zirker (eds.), Reworking the Sacred through Music and Poetry: The De/Sacralisation of Texts (Münster: LIT Verlag), forthcoming.
- ‘Performers’, in Helen Coffey and Annette Landgraf (eds.), Handel in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming.
- ‘Creative Process’, in Helen Coffey and Annette Landgraf (eds.), Handel in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming.
- ‘Performing Handel’, in Helen Coffey and Annette Landgraf (eds.), Handel in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming.
- ‘Schubert and the Viennese Piano’, in Matthew Gardner and Christine Martin (eds.), Schubert’s Piano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 93–115.
- ‘Singers and Creativity in Orlando and Alcina’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 69 (2023), 173–87.
- (with Manuel Becker, Christina Richter-Ibáñez and Sara Springfeld), ‘Video-Tutorials zum musikwissenschaftlichen Arbeiten: Konzept, Produktion, Open Access, Einsatz in der Lehre’, Forum Musikbibliothek, 43/2 (2022), 58–62.
- ‘The London Revisions of Handel’s First Roman Oratorio: Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità (1737) and The Triumph of Time and Truth (1757)’, in David Vickers (ed.), New Perspectives on Handel’s Music: Essays in Honour of Donald Burrows (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2022), 144–76.
- ‘Sängerinnen und Sänger – Vermittlung und Vermarktung’, Göttinger Händel-Beiträge, 23 (2022), 31–45.
- ‘Puppets and Satire in Early Eighteenth-Century London’, in Adrian Kuhl, Silke Leopold and Dorothea Redepenning (eds.), Über das musikalische Marionettentheater (hinaus). Musik und Puppen (Heidelberg: heiBOOKS, 2021), 19–34. https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.870.c12946
- ‘Queen Caroline, Music and Handel Revisited’, Early Music, 49/2 (2021), 211–25.
https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caab028 - ‘Music at Royal Country Residences in England During the Reigns of George I and George II’, in Silke Leopold and Bärbel Pelker (eds.), Fürstliches Arkadien: Sommerresidenzen im 18. Jahrhundert (Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021), 117–28. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.778.c10452
- ‘Frieden und Sieg in London: Händel und die Dankgottesdienste von 1713, 1743 und 1749’, in Dominik Höink (ed.), Religiöse Friedensmusik von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (Hildesheim: Olms, 2021), 139–56.
- ‘The Selection, Acquisition and Performance of Handel’s English Odes and Oratorios in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Durham’, in Stephanie Carter, Kirsten Gibson and Roz Southey (eds.), Music in North-East England, 1500–1800: Networks, Circulation, Sources (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2020), 54–69.
- ‘Maurice Greene and the English Church Music Tradition’, in Delia Da Sousa Correa (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 311–17.
- ‘Female Virtue in Early English Oratorios: Handel’s Deborah’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 65 (2020), 87–101.
- ‘English Oratorio and Charity Benefits in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London’, in Alison DeSimone and Matthew Gardner (eds.), Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 202–19.
- ‘Italian Opera for the English Taste: Handel’s Early London Operas 1711–1715’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 64 (2019), 49–60.
- ‘Borrowing in Deborah: Convenience or Careful Selection?’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 63 (2018), 165–78.
- ‘Charles Avison, John Brown and English Oratorio’, in Eric Cross and Roz Southey (eds.), Charles Avison in Context: National and International Musical Links in Eighteenth-Century North-East England (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018), 67–120.
- ‘Steffani’s Italian Opera Singers in Hanover: Recruitment and Vocal Style’, in Claudia Kaufold, Nicole K. Strohmann and Colin Timms (eds.) Agostino Steffani: Europäischer Komponist und hannoverscher Diplomat der Leibniz-Zeit (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2017), 123–38.
- ‘Seventeenth-Century Literary Classics as Eighteenth-Century Libretto Sources: Congreve, Dryden and Milton in the 1730s and 1740s’, in Colin Timms and Bruce Wood (eds.), Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 157–74.
- ‘Zwischen Kunst und Markt: Händel und seine Sänger in London’ (trans. Sven Hiemke), in Stephan Mösch (ed.), Komponieren für Stimme von Monteverdi bis Rihm: Ein Handbuch (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2017), 55–75.
- ‘Gioacchino Conti and Handel’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 62 (2016), 237–49.
- ‘Das Land ohne Musik’? National Musical Identity in Victorian and Edwardian England’, in Matthew Gardner and Hanna Walsdorf (eds.), Musik – Politik – Identität (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2016), 131–48; online open access edition: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?univerlag-isbn-978-3-86395-258-7
- ‘The Preference of the Hanoverians for Handel, 1727–1821’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 61 (2015), 173–85.
- ‘Alexander’s Feast and Eighteenth-Century Perceptions of the Power of Music’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 60 (2014), 253–64.
- ‘L’Allegro, Il Penseroso und Il Moderato: Text und musikalische Bildersprache in Händels Arien’, in Thomas Seedorf (ed.), Händels Arien. Form, Affekt, Kontext. Bericht über die Symposien 2008 bis 2010 (Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2013), 135–53.
- ‘The Great Mr Handel (1942): Handel’s first Biopic, its Sources and Wartime Allegory’, Musicorum, 14 (2013), ‘Haendel après Haendel: Construction, renommée, influence de Haendel et de la figure haendélienne’, 99–107.
- ‘Handel’s Wedding Anthems and Borrowing’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 59 (2013), 217–28.
- ‘Händel, seine englischen Zeitgenossen und die Corelli-Tradition in London – Traditionen und Kompositionsformen’, in Wolfgang Birtel (ed.), Händels Weg von Rom nach London (Mainz: Are Musik Verlag, 2012), 231–47.
- ‘Handel, his Contemporaries and Early English Oratorio’, Muzikološki Zbornik / Musicological Annual, 48/1 (2012), 37–48.
- ‘Handel on Screen 1942–2009’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 56 (2010), 507–27.
- ‘Öffentlichkeit als Veranstaltungsform. Werkgestalt, Primärrezeption und Umstände der Aufführungen von Händels englischen Oratorien’, in Michael Zywietz (eds.), Händels Oratorien, Oden und Serenaten, vol. 3 of Hans Joachim Marx (ed.), Das Händel-Handbuch (Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2010), 59–74.
- ‘Händel, die Kirche und “geistliche” Musik im Theater’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 55 (2009), 125–34.
- ‘Musik als Allegorie bei Händel und seinen Zeitgenossen: Oden für St. Cäcilia’, Händel-Jahrbuch, 54 (2008), 103–20.
- ‘The Choice of Hercules: A Survey of Politics, Literature and Music 1700–1751’, in Mark Humphreys and Michael Burden (eds.), A Handbook for Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Music XVII (2007), 1–20.
Critical Editions
- Isaac Bickerstaff and Edward Toms (Arr.), Love in a Village: A Comic Opera, edited by Berta Joncus, Žak Ozmo and Vanessa Rogers; supervising editors Janine Droese, Tina Köth-Kley; former supervisor Matthew Gardner; digital implementation Nikolaos Beer, OPERA – Spektrum des europäischen Musiktheaters in Einzeleditionen, Historisch-kritische Hybridausgaben, vol. 4 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2020).
- Handel, Wedding Anthems, This is the day which the Lord has made (HWV 262) and Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth (HWV 263), Hallische Händel-Ausgabe III/11 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2013).
Tutorial Videos
Tübinger Tutorials zur Musikwissenschaft: Lehrvideos zur Einführung in das musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten (2020), with Christina Richter-Ibáñez, Sara Springfeld and Manuel Becker.
- Die MGG – Geschichte und Konzeption der Enzyklopädie: https://youtu.be/-8607AYwKkE
- MGG Online: https://youtu.be/eVbco3pvAi8
- Bibliographien zur Musik (RILM): https://youtu.be/hKVXfFZu3n0
- RISM – Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik: https://youtu.be/K34u716Uwmk
Review Articles and Conference Reports
- Book review: Margaret Seares, Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre: Mattheson’s Universal Style in Theory and Practice, Royal Musical Association Monographs 25 (Farnham: Ashgate 2014), Fontes Artis Musicae, 68/1 (2021), 40–42.
- Book review: Hans Joachim Marx and Steffen Voss, The Compositions Attributed to G. F. Handel, 1700–1800 (Hildesheim: Olms, 2017), Early Music, 48/4 (2020), 577–9.
https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caaa066 - Book review: Tim Eggington, Benjamin Cooke and the Academy of Ancient Music (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2014), Fontes Artis Musicae, 65/2 (2018), 111–13.
- Book review: David Kimbell, Handel on the Stage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016), Early Music, 46/2 (2018), 336–8.
https://doi:10.1093/em/cay035 - Book review: Matthias Range, British Royal and State Funerals: Music and Ceremonial since Elizabeth I (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2016), Fontes Artis Musicae, 65/1 (2018), 34–36.
https://doi:0.1353/fam.2018.0006 - Book review: Jürgen Schaarwächter, Two Centuries of British Symphonism: From the beginnings to 1945 (Hildesheim: Olms, 2015), Die Musikforschung, 70/1 (2017), 85–6.
- Conference report: (with Katherina Lindekens, Roseen Giles, James Hume, Ester Lebedinski, Théodora Psychoyou and Nigel Springthorpe), ‘Baroque and roll in Canterbury’, Early Music, 44/4 (2016), 666–9.
https://doi:10.1093/em/caw097 - Book review: David Hunter, The Lives of George Frideric Handel (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2015), Music and Letters, 97/4 (2016), 507–9. doi:10.1093/ml/gcw079
- Conference report: Joint Meeting of the American Handel Society and The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Iowa City, 23–26 April 2015, The Handel Institute Newsletter, 26/2 (2015).
- Book review: Michael Burden, Regina Mingotti: Diva and Impresario at the King’s Theatre London, Royal Musical Association Monographs 22 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 38/3 (2015), 467–8.
- Book review: Neil Jenkins, John Beard: Handel and Garrick’s Favourite Tenor (Bramber: Bramber Press, 2012); Patricia Howard, The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014); and Sarah McCleave, Dance in Handel’s London Operas (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013), Early Music, 63/2 (2015), 333–6
https://doi: 10.1093/em/cav022 - Conference report: ‘Handel after Handel’: The Making, Lasting Fame and Influence of Handel and the Handelian Figure, Université de Tours, 18–20 October 2012, Eighteenth-Century Music, 10/2 (2013), 321–3.
- https://doi:10.1017/S1478570613000237
- Conference report: American Handel Society Conference, Princeton, 21–24 February 2013, The Handel Institute Newsletter, 24/1 (2013).
- Concert review: ‘An Arcadian Conversazione: Handel in Rome’, Foundling Museum London, November 2012, for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Online (2012).
http://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks/reviewdetails.aspxid=78&type=1#sthash.CshFK7bf.dpuf - Concert review: ‘Haendel à Rome: Cantates, Duetti et Sonate’, Temple de Tours, Tours, October 2012, for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Online (2012).
http://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks/reviewdetails.aspx?id=69&type=1#sthash.0TN6RCeE.dpuf - Conference report: American Handel Society Conference, Seattle, 24–27 March 2011, The Handel Institute Newsletter, 22/2 (2011).
- Music edition review: Henry Purcell, Purcell Society Edition, The Works of Henry Purcell, vol. 1, Three Occasional Odes, Bruce Wood (ed.) (London: Stainer & Bell, 2008); John Blow, Venus and Adonis, Bruce Wood (ed.) (London: Stainer & Bell, 2008) (Purcell Society Edition. Companion Series. Volume 2.); and William Croft, Complete Chamber Music, H. Diack Johnstone (ed.) (London: Stainer & Bell 2009) (Musica Britannica 88), Die Musikforschung, 64/3 (2011), 295–7.
- Conference report: ‘Purcell, Handel & Literature’, London, 19–21 November 2009, Die Musikforschung, 63/2 (2010), 171–2.
- Music edition review: Georg Friedrich Händel, Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Serie I: Oratorien und große Kantaten, vol. 29: Theodora. Oratorio in three parts HWV 68, Colin Timms (ed.) (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2008); Georg Friedrich Händel, Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Serie I: Oratorien und große Kantaten, vol. 23: Occasional Oratorio. Oratorio in three parts HWV 62, Merlin Channon (ed.) (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2009); and Georg Friedrich Händel, Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Serie I: Oratorien und große Kantaten, vol. 30, Jephtha. Oratorio in three acts, Kenneth Nott (ed.) (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2009), Die Musikforschung, 63/4 (2010), 458–61.
- Research interests
- Music in eighteenth-century Britain / George Frideric Handel / singers
- Music in early nineteenth-century Vienna / Franz Schubert
- Historiography and intellectual contextualization, including music and society, allegory, politics, cultural transfer, artistic and literary traditions
- Opera and theatre studies
- Performers, performance practices and historically informed performance
- Source studies and the critical editing of music (print and digital editions)
- Creative processes and practices
- Methods and approaches to music research
- Digital musicology
- Projects
- Bade- und Kurmusik im späten 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (Teilprojekt A04), SFB 1391 „Andere Ästhetik“ (DFG), with Thomas Schipperges (2024–)
Previous
- Franz Schubert – Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (AdW Mainz), 2017–2025
- Innovative Curricula und praxisorientierte Lehrmodule (ICPL): Erstellung digitaler Lehrmedien für die Musikwissenschaft (BMBF), 2019–2020
- The Business of Singing in England 1660–1760 (DFG), 2011–2014
Current courses
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- Musikwissenschaftliches Arbeiten Im Seminar erhalten Studierende anhand zahlreicher theoretischer und praktischer Bespiele die Gelegenheit sich mit allen Aspekten musikwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens grundlegend zu beschäftigen. Dazu gehören u. a. die Frage nach Arbeitsbereichen und Themengebieten der Musikwissenschaft, Methoden der Recherche- und Quellenarbeit (Beschaffung und Nachweisen von Quellen), das Verfassen von musikwissenschaftlichen Arbeiten (Themenfindung, Fragestellungen, Verfahrensweisen) und Merkmale musikwissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der heutigen Zeit.
- Musikgeschichte Alte Musik
- Instrumentenkunde Alte Musik 1
- Quellenkunde
- Musikgeschichte
- Musikwissenschaft Alte Musik
- Kolloquium für Masterstudierende der Alten Musik
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