Dietmar Friesenegger

Dietmar Friesenegger conducts research on music culture and dance in the late Habsburg Monarchy and the First Republic, on music and migration, and on music competitions. He is a freelance researcher at the Exilarte Center at the mdw and a lecturer at IES Abroad Vienna. For his dissertation, “Voices among Cultures in the Eastern European Borderlands: Music in Czernowitz, 1862–1918” (Cornell University, 2020), he was awarded the Donald J. Grout Memorial Dissertation Prize. During his dissertation research, he discovered unpublished compositions by Eusebius Mandyczewski and founded an award-winning festival in Ukraine to revive this music. His articles have appeared in publications such as Early Music, The Musical Quarterly, and the Leipziger Beiträge zur Bachforschung. His editions have been published by Breitkopf & Härtel, KnyhyXXI, Doblinger, and Ries & Erler. He is currently working on a monograph on the 1938 Vienna ball season.