Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture: Apostles of a Brighter Future

This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, during the 19th century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, and reconsiders well-works and composers from woman-centric perspectives.

Anja Bunzel works at the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, where she researches (semi-)private musical culture in nineteenth-century Prague within a European context. She is co-editor of Musical Salon Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Boydell, 2019), and author of The Songs of Johanna Kinkel: Genesis, Reception, Context (Boydell, 2020).

Christopher Campo-Bowen is Assistant Professor of Musicology in the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech. He holds a PhD in musicology from UNC Chapel Hill. His research focuses on music in the Habsburg monarchy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially through topics like opera, ethnicity, gender, and empire.