Cosima Linke

Cosima Linke has been a professor of music theory and musicology at the Freiburg University of Music since 2024. Prior to that, she briefly held a professorship in music theory at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre (HMT); from 2018 to 2023/24, she served as an adjunct professor of musicology with a focus on music theory at the Saar University of Music (HfM Saar) in Saarbrücken. Her research focuses on the fields of music aesthetics and philosophy of music since the 18th and 19th centuries, the history and methods of music theory and music analysis, and 19th- and 20th-century music (including Mahler, the Vienna School, music around 1950, and Lachenmann; in 2017, she earned her Ph.D. with a dissertation on form in contemporary music and aesthetic experience based on Adorno, for which she received the gfm doctoral prize). From 2018 to 2024, she was co-editor of the Journal of the Society for Music Theory (ZGMTH); since 2024, she has headed the GMTH’s Academic Competition. She supervises various doctoral projects in music-related artistic research. She is currently preparing a monograph serving as an introduction to music aesthetics (Nomos).