High honors for Mozart researcher Konrad
Musicologist Ulrich Konrad has been awarded the Order of St. Maximilian, the highest honor bestowed by the Free State of Bavaria for academic achievement.
Born in 1957, Ulrich Konrad has held a chair in musicology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) since 1996. He studied musicology, German studies and medieval and modern history at the universities of Bonn and Vienna. After completing his doctorate in philosophy, he taught and researched at the musicology department of the University of Göttingen from 1983. He habilitated there in 1991.
After holding the Chair of Musicology at the Free University of Berlin and teaching in Göttingen, he was C4 Professor of Musicology at the Freiburg State University of Music from 1993 to 1996. He then moved to JMU as Chair and Head of the Institute of Musicology. Under his leadership, the institute was reorganized and expanded.
