Daniela Philippi

In the summer semester 2009, she took up a teaching position at the Musicology Department of the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg. In the academic year 2009/10, she held a professorship at the Institute for Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt. In the winter semester 2010/11, she held a teaching position there. Since the summer semester 2011, Philippi has held the academy professorship at the Institute of Musicology of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Since 2013, she has been the 1st chairperson of the Frankfurt association Musica Judaica, since 2019 also 1st chairperson of the Frankfurt Telemann Society.

From 2000 to 2007, Philippi was a private lecturer, from 2007 to 2011 she was an associate professor at the Musicological Institute of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In 2002, she became a member of the editorial board of the Gluck-Gesamtausgabe. From 2002 to 2018, she was a member of the preparatory working group (2004 to 2018 Editorial Board) of the Neue Dvořák-Gesamtausgabe/New Dvořák Edition (NDE), where she also became a research Fellow in 2006. Since 2003, she has been a member of the editorial board of the Martinů-Gesamtausgabe. From 2003 to 2005, Philippi also taught musicology at the Robert Schumann University of Music Düsseldorf. From 2005 to 2018, she was a member of the international editorial board (Mezinárodní redakční rada) of the journal Hudební věda published by the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.

Since 1993, she has been a research fellow at the Gluck-Gesamtausgabe in the Academy of sciences in Mainz. From 1991 to 2000, she was also assistant lecturer at the Musicological Institute of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. In 2000, she was awarded the habilitation and the Venia legendi for the subject Musicology at the Department of History of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The habilitation thesis dealt with the topic The New in Contemporary Organ Music since the late 1950s.

Born in Limburg an der Lahn, Philippi studied musicology, journalism as well as general and comparative literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1985 to 1992. From 1985 to 1989, she also studied at the Episcopal Institute of Church Music of the Diocese of Mainz, where she graduated in 1989 with the church musician examination C. In 1992, she received her doctorate under Christoph-Hellmut Mahling at the Musicological Institute of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on the subject Antonín Dvořák – The Spectre's Bride (Svatební košile) op. 69 and The St. Ludmila (Svatá Ludmila) op. 71. studies of the great vocal form in the 19th century.

Daniela Philippi (born 1966) is a German musicologist with a research focus on Christoph Willibald Gluck, Antonín Dvořák and Czech music history and music of the 20th century.