PD Dr. Boris Voigt

After studying musicology, sociology, and philosophy at the University of Hamburg, Boris Voigt wrote his doctoral thesis on music foundations and patronage networks in antiquity and the Middle Ages. In 2014–15, he served as a visiting professor in the Department of Music Sociology and Historical Anthropology of Music at Humboldt University, where he completed his habilitation in 2018 with a thesis on economic structures in musical and compositional thought from the early modern period to the modern era. In 2014–15, he served as a substitute professor in the Department of Sociology of Music and Historical Anthropology of Music at Humboldt University, where he completed his habilitation in 2018 with a dissertation on economic structures in musical and compositional thought from the early modern period to the modern era. In 2020–21, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. From June 2022 to May 2025, he worked as a research associate on the DFG long-term project “Digital Liszt Source and Work Catalog”. His research focuses on the sociology and philosophy of music, music in the Middle Ages, and music history from the 19th to the early 20th century. In June 2023, he transferred his Habilitation to the University of Heidelberg.

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