Lars-Edvard
Laubhold

Lars Laubhold is Professor of Music History at the Institute for Theory and History of Music (ITG), Deputy Head of Doctoral Programs at the Anton Bruckner Private University and Academic Integrity Officer at the ABPU.

Lars E. Laubhold studied trumpet at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin from 1988-1990, then trained as a metal wind instrument maker in Markneukirchen (Saxony), and practiced this profession for ten years - most recently as a restorer at the Musical Instrument Museum Schloss Kremsegg (1997-2000). He studied musicology at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, where he worked as a freelancer at the Research Institute for Salzburg Music History from 2001-2005, again as a research assistant in 2007/08 and received his doctorate in 2013 with a thesis on the recording history of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. From 2008-2014 he worked on two FWF-funded projects researching the music of Salzburg Cathedral, and from 2014-2016 he was a research associate at the Digital Mozart Edition of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation. Since 2016, he has been Professor of Music History at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz and was in charge of the collection of the Schloss Kremsegg Musical Instrument Museum. Since the closure of the museum and the transfer of the collection to the holdings of the Upper Austrian State Museum in 2018/19, he has worked exclusively for the ABPU. Since 2022, he has served as Academic Integrity Officer and since 2024 as Deputy Head of Doctoral Programs.

Lars E. Laubhold has researched and published as an author and (co-)editor on topics including early modern trumpet playing (Magie der Macht, Würzburg 2009), Salzburg music history (including Klang-Quellen, Munich 2010; Keine Chance für Mozart, Lucca 2013; Musik am Dom zu Salzburg, Vienna 2018), musical reception in film and the history of musical interpretation (including Herbert von Karajan 1908-1989, Salzburg 2008; Von Nikisch bis Norrington, Munich 2014; Eduard Steuermann. “Musiker und Virtuose”, Munich 2022). He was involved in the development of two FWF projects on musical manuscript research (P 23195) and empirical interpretation research (P 29840), was (co-)organizer of several symposia and conceived the new presentation of the wind instruments in the Musical Instrument Museum Schloss Kremsegg in the exhibition “D'une grande sonorité” ‒ Vom großen Klang des Fortschritts, Kremsmünster 2017.

Prof. Dr. Lars E. Laubhold is co-responsible for the strategic and content-related development of the doctoral programs, in particular with regard to the interaction of academic and artistic-academic doctorates as well as the preparation of Master's students for doctoral studies.