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