Benedikt Leßmann studied Musicology, Romance Studies, Comparative Literature and Church Music in Leipzig, Paris and Halle. He obtained the “Magister” degree with a thesis on Debussy’s songs in 2010. In 2015, he completed his doctorate with a dissertation on the reception of Gregorian chant in France in the 19th and early 20th centuries. From 2010 to 2016, he worked at the University of Leipzig. In 2016, he was appointed assistant (Universitätsassistent) for Historical Musicology at the University of Vienna. He has taught musicology and music history at several schools. Additionally, he has worked as music journalist and writer. His work has been awarded with the “Reinhard-Schulz-Preis” (Darmstadt) in 2014 and the “Förderpreis für junge Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler” (Saxony) in 2015.
Contact : benedikt.lessmann@univie.ac.at
Séance précomposée - Interpreting and Listening to the Music of Debussy 6.C.1 : Describing Prosody in Debussy’s songs
