Matthias Tischer

Visiting Scholar
Researcher
Musicology

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x239
E-Mail: tischer@fas.harvard.edu





Biographical Statement

Tischer is a researcher in musicology. After participating in the international research project "Musical Life in Europe" for four years, he received a PhD from the Institut fïr Musikwissenschaft Weimar/Jena in 2001. He worked as a Fritz Thyssen fellow at Berlin University (2004-2006) and has written on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, popular music, musical education, aesthetics, and the relationship between music and politics. His current main fields of research are music in the former GDR, music under the circumstances of the Cold War, and oral history. In 2006 he was awarded a Feodor Lynen fellowship and will be at CES for one year from August of 2006.