Sponsorship award for musicologist Hanna Walsdorf
Musicologist Hanna Walsdorf, who works at the University of Basel, has been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation grant. Her work will be funded with substantial sums over five years.
Hanna Walsdorf has been Assistant Professor of Musicology in Basel since 2022. In the project "The Night Side of Music", she will investigate how the segmented sleep cycle shaped the history of music in the early modern period between 1500 and 1800. She will look at religious music-making at home and musical practice in monastic daily routines, as well as night-time concerts and private musical events. Finally, she also asks how the time between sunset and sunrise was reflected in the music itself. Walsdorf's aim with this research is to contribute to a reassessment of musical behavior and repertoire.
With the SNSF Advanced Grants, the SNSF supports outstanding scientists in Switzerland who take unconventional approaches to gain new insights. The approved projects are each funded with more than two million francs over a period of five years.
The SNSF Advanced Grants were launched in 2021 to provide researchers at Swiss institutions with a replacement for the ERC Advanced Grants, for which they cannot currently apply, as Switzerland is now only considered a non-associated third country in the EU research program "Horizon Europe".
