Eva Badura-Skoda

Eva Badura -Skoda ( born Eva Halfar, born 15 January 1929 in Munich) is a German - Austrian musicologist.

Biography

Eva Halfar studied at the Vienna Conservatory piano and viola d' amore and majored in musicology, philosophy and art history at the universities of Regensburg, Heidelberg, Vienna (with Erich Schenk ) and Innsbruck. There she received her doctorate in 1953 with the dissertation studies the history of music teaching in Austria in the 16th, 17th and 18th century.

In 1951 she married the pianist and musicologist Paul Badura- Skoda, with whom she also worked for the books interpretation of Mozart (1957, last fundamentally revised 2008) and Bach interpretation.

1962 and 1963 she gave courses at the Summer Academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1964, she was the Brittingham Visiting Professor at the University of Wise in Madison, where she worked as a professor of musicology 1966-1974. She was a visiting professor at Boston University (1976 ), Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (1979 ), McGill University, Montreal ( 1981-1982 ), and the University of Göttingen ( 1982-1983 ).

In 1986 she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.

Eva Badura -Skoda contributed numerous articles about piano music, pianos, operatic history of the 18th century and iconographic and biographical studies of books and reviews in academic journals in, and they edited works by Haydn, Dittersdorf, Mozart and Schubert.

With Peter Branscombe she gave out a book on style and chronology issues in Schubert. She also edited the report organized by herself Haydn Congress (Vienna, 1982), and she was also one of the editors of the band Schubert and his friends (Report on the Schubert Conference Vienna 1997).

Her book Interpreting Mozart -authored with Paul Badura- Skoda, is a detailed study of issues of the notes and performance practice backgrounds that are for pianists who are concerned with the interpretation of Mozart's piano music, of high relevance.

The couple Badura -Skoda has four children, including the youngest son died in 2001, with 37 years of pianist Michael Badura, a former duo partner of Rico Gulda.

Writings (selection )

Authorship

• With Paul Badura- Skoda: Mozart interpretation. Wancura, Vienna / Stuttgart 1957, German publisher of Music, Leipzig 1957. 2nd revised edition 1996 English London in 1962; Interpreting Mozart: the performance of his piano pieces and other Compositions. 2nd edition. Routledge, New York / London, 2008. (With 1 CD -ROM.)
• Russian: Moscow, 1972; Italian: Padova 1981 French: Paris 1995.

• English 1992.

Editorship

• With Peter Branscombe: Schubert studies: problems of style and chronology. Cambridge University Press, 1982, ISBN 0,521,226,066th
• Report on the International Joseph Haydn Congress, Vienna, Hofburg, 5th - 12th September 1982. Henle, Munich 1986.
• With different Eds.: Schubert and his friends. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1999.