Ulrich Konrad

Ulrich Konrad studied musicology, German studies and history at the universities of Bonn and Vienna. His 1983 doctoral thesis dealt with the composer and conductor Otto Nicolai. From 1993 he taught musicology as a professor at the University of Music in Freiburg im Breisgau and in 1996 he was appointed full professor of musicology at the University of Würzburg. Konrad is an expert on European music from the 17th to the 20th century, especially the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. He is chairman of the Academy for Mozart Research at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, as well as project leader of the Robert Schumann Complete Edition and the edition Richard Wagner Schriften (RWS). Through his Mozart research, Konrad has a close attachment to Salzburg. In 1999 he was awarded the Silver Mozart Medal from the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg for his standard reference work Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Leben Musik Werkbestand. In 2001 Konrad was the first and so far only musicologist to receive the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. He is a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Academia Europaea as well as a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.