Prof. Dr. Janine Droese

Janine Doese studied musicology, with cultural management and educational science as secondary subjects, at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar and the University of Jena. From 2007 to 2009, she held a doctoral scholarship from the State Graduate Funding Programme at the University of Hamburg; she also received DAAD scholarships in 2005 and 2009/2010 for research stays at the »Paul Sacher Stiftung« in Basel and the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours. From 2010 to 2019, she was a research assistant on the editorial project »OPERA – Spektrum des europäischen Musiktheaters in Einzelausgaben« at the Universities of Bayreuth and Frankfurt am Main, where, as Supervising Editor, she was responsible, amongst other things, for the edition of Justine Favart and Adolphe Blaise’s »Annette et Lubin«. In 2019, she was awarded a PhD from the University of Hamburg for her thesis on conceptions of angelic music and their significance for music and musical thought in the 13th–16th centuries; in the same year, she joined the Cluster of Excellence »Understanding Written Artefacts« at the University of Hamburg, where, as a research assistant on the project »Creating Music Albums as Originals Made of Originals«, the leadership of which she took over in 2022, focusing on 19th-century music albums. In addition, she served as spokesperson for Research Area C »Creating Originals« within the Cluster of Excellence. As a member of Research Group 5138 »Geistliche Intermedialität in der Frühen Neuzeit«, she was responsible, together with Oliver Huck and Johann Anselm Steiger, for Sub-project 1 »musica angelica et consociatio hominum cum angelis. Die Musik der Engel im Kirchenraum«, which describes the performative and iconographic representation of the music of the angels in church interiors and examines the interplay between the corresponding pictorial and epigraphic programmes in church interiors and the music performed within them. Since December 2025, she has been Professor of Musicology, specialising in Early Music History, at the HMTM.