Linda Maria Koldau (born October 28, 1971) is a German musicologist and Chair of Musicology and Cultural History (formerly Knud Jeppesen's Chair of Musicology) at Aarhus University in Denmark. She represents an interdisciplinary, cultural historical approach to musicology that focuses on the relation between music and social context, based on comprehensive source studies and musical analysis.
Born in Munich, Linda Maria Koldau studied Musicology, American Literature, and Italian Literature at Reading University in England and Mainz University in Germany. In 2000 she finished her PhD at Bonn University with a thesis on the Venetian sacred music by Claudio Monteverdi. In 2005 she received her "Habilitation" at Frankfurt University with a handbook on women in the musical culture of the Early Modern Period. In 2006-2008 she was chair of Musicology and director of the Institute of Musicology at Frankfurt University; in 2009 she was appointed Chair of Musicology and Cultural History at Aarhus University. She is member of several international research groups and interdisciplinary networks and has published widely in several fields of musicology and cultural history. Besides her academic work, she worked as a freelance cultural journalist for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in the period 1992-2002; since 1995 she has been author of radio programs for various German channels.
Claudio MonteverdiSacred music and culture of the late Middle Ages and Early Modern PeriodThe oratorio in the 19th centuryMusic and nationalismFilm musicMedieval conventsHistorical gender studiesModern myths (submarines; Titanic)Die venezianische Kirchenmusik von Claudio Monteverdi, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2001, 22005Frauen - Musik - Kultur. Ein Handbuch zum deutschen Sprachgebiet der Frühen Neuzeit, Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2005, http://www.boehlau.at/978-3-412-24505-4.htmlDie Moldau. Smetanas Zyklus „Mein Vaterland", Köln/Weimar: Böhlau, 2007, http://www.boehlau.at/978-3-412-15306-9.htmlMythos U-Boot, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2010, http://www.steiner-verlag.de/titel/58165.htmlPassion und Ostern in den Lüneburger Klöstern, Ebstorf: Verlag Kloster Ebstorf, 2010 (ed.)Titanic: Das Schiff - der Untergang - die Legenden, Munich: C.H. Beck, 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-62424-7, http://www.chbeck.de/Koldau-Maria-Titanic/productview.aspx?product=8624587Titanic on Film: Myth versus Truth, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-6311-4, http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6311-4Jante Universitet - Episoder fra livet bag murene. Bind 1: Den skønne facade, Tredition, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8495-0351-2, http://www.tredition.de/?books/ID28801/Jante-UniversitetPassion und Ostern in den Lüneburger Klöstern, VIII. Ebstorfer Kolloquium, Kloster Ebstorf, 25–28 March 2009 http://weblab.uni-lueneburg.de/ebstorf/Internationale Monteverdi-Interpretationen: Wissenschaft - Praxis - Vermittlung, Universität Frankfurt am Main, 2–4 July 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20110719102853/http://www.muwi.uni-frankfurt.de/archiv/monteverdi-symposium.htmlAnden Verdenskrig i dansk kulturliv 1940-2010, Aarhus Universitet, 22–23 April 2010 http://forsk.dk/arrangementer/mariekruselarsen/anden-verdenskrig-i-dansk-kulturliv-1940-2010 http://forsk.dk/arrangementer/mariekruselarsen/anden-verdenskrig-i-dansk-kulturliv-1940-2010Weltbild und Lebenswirklichkeit in den Lüneburger Klöstern, IX. Ebstorfer Kolloquium, Kloster Ebstorf, 23–26 March 2011Music and the Formation of National Identity, Aarhus Universitet, June 2011
