Würzburg. Professor Ulrich Konrad has received the highest honor a scientist can receive from the Free State of Bavaria: He was honored with the Maximilian Order.
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Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder has now awarded ten Maximilian orders at a ceremony in the Munich Residenz. “The Maximilian Order is, so to speak, our Bavarian Nobel Prize. Today we have accepted ten outstanding personalities from science and art into this exclusive club of medal winners. All of the award winners have reached the highest level of scientific and artistic work, ”said the Prime Minister.
Professor Ulrich Konrad, Head of the Chair of Musicology I at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (JMU), is one of the new recipients of the order.
“Professor Konrad is a recognized expert on modern European music, especially the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Wagner,” said the laudatory speech by the Bavarian State Chancellery. Thanks to his extraordinary ability to prepare well-founded knowledge in an exciting way, he succeeds in inspiring a broad audience for demanding musical topics.
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Ulrich Konrad, born in 1957, has held a chair for musicology at JMU since 1996. He studied musicology, German language and literature as well as medieval and modern history at the Universities of Bonn and Vienna. After receiving his doctorate in philosophy, he taught and researched at the musicological seminar at the University of Göttingen from 1983 onwards. There he completed his habilitation in 1991.
After holding the chair in musicology at the Free University of Berlin and teaching in Göttingen, he headed the C4 professorship for musicology at the Freiburg State University of Music from 1993 to 1996. He then moved to the JMU as professor and head of the Institute for Musicology. Under his leadership, the institute was realigned and expanded. Ulrich Konrad is a full member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (BAdW). BAdW President Thomas O. Höllmann paid tribute to Konrad’s merits on the occasion of the award of the Maximilian Order. At the academy, Konrad directed the recently completed project of the Orlando di Lasso Complete Edition. He is also a member of the coordination committee of the Schelling Forum of the Academy and the JMU, which was founded in 2021. In 2017, the Würzburg music researcher was awarded the First Class Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2001 he received a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation, the “German Nobel Prize”. pm
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