Ulrich Leisinger


Ulrich Leisinger is a German musicologist and director of the research department of the Mozarteum University Salzburg in Salzburg.

Life

Leisinger received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1992. The subject of his dissertation was a paper on Joseph Haydn and the development of the classical piano style. He then went to the Bach Archive Leipzig until 2004, first as a research assistant and later as deputy director of research. In 2004/2005 Leisinger was a visiting professor at Cornell University in Ithaca.
Since July 2005, Leisinger has been editor of the New Mozart Edition and the Digital Mozart Edition, published by the Mozarteum Foundation and funded by the Packard Humanities Institute, Los Altos, California. Leisinger is also the editor of new editions of major works of choral literature published by Carus-Verlag.

Publications