Personal profile
Short presentation
Professor of Musicology. Working primarily within the field of music and music history since the mid-19th century focussing on Denmark as well as East and Central Europe.
I am currently working on a new monography on Carl Nielsen.
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities
- musicology
- Danish music
- Central European music
- German music
- Eastern European music
- music and politics
- music and power
- nationalism
- aesthetics
- cultures of music
- Carl Nielsen
- Kurt Weill
- Paul Hindemith
- Ernst Krenek
- Hanns Eisler
- cold war
- Theodor W. Adorno
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Kulturradikalismens musik
Fjeldsøe, M., 2013, København: Museum Tusculanum. 832 p. (Danish Humanist Texts and Studies, Vol. 45).Research output: Book/Report › Doctoral thesis
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'Nordicness' in Scandinavian Music - A Complex Question
Fjeldsøe, M. & Groth, S. K., 2019, The Nature of Nordic Music. Howell, T. (ed.). Taylor & Francis, p. 3-19Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Getting away with Cultural Bolshevism: the first European performance of Porgy and Bess in Copenhagen, 1943
Fjeldsøe, M., 2020, The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945: Propaganda, Myth and Reality. Fanning, D. & Levi, E. (eds.). Routledge, p. 303-318Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Hvordan udstiller man en lyd?
Fjeldsøe, M., 2026, In: Magasinet Museum. 2026, 1, p. 34-37Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication
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About the concerto [Carl Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto ]
Fjeldsøe, M., 21 Nov 2025, 2 p.Research output: Other contribution › Communication
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Carl Nielsen: A Cultural Biography
Fjeldsøe, M., Engberg, K. S., Moe, B. & Hauge, P. (Translator), 2025, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 794 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Carl Nielsen: En kulturhistorisk biografi
Fjeldsøe, M., Engberg, K. S. & Moe, B., 2024, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 792 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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The Radiokapellmeister at Work in Danish National Radio: Oscar Wilde's Salome as Radio Drama with Symphonic Orchestra (1930)
Fjeldsøe, M., 2023, Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama. Verhulst, P. & Mildorf, J. (eds.). Brill, p. 191-211 21 p. (Word and Music Studies, Vol. 21).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Activities
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Radio and the Sound of Modernism
Fjeldsøe, M. (Participant)
10 Nov 2020Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Norddeutsche Sängerfeste vor 1861: Die Frage von Schleswig und Holstein zwischen Pan-Germanismus, Lokalpatriotismus und Skandinavismus (Hautpvortrag)
Fjeldsøe, M. (Other)
22 Oct 2020Activity: Presentations, memberships and other activity types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Concepts of Improvisation between the two World Wars
Fjeldsøe, M. (Speaker)
30 Sept 2016 → 1 Oct 2016Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
Fjeldsøe, M. (Speaker)
14 Sept 2016Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Symbolisten, vitalisten, modernisten! Carl Nielsen i tidens strøm
Fjeldsøe, M. (Lecturer)
27 May 2015Activity: Presentations, memberships and other activity types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Carl Nielsen revisited
Fjeldsøe, M. (Organizer)
19 May 2015Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Det Kongelige Bibliotek (External organisation)
Fjeldsøe, M. (Chair)
Apr 2015 → Jun 2015Activity: Presentations, memberships and other activity types › Membership of review committee
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Music under German Occupation, 1938 -1945: Complicity and Resistance
Fjeldsøe, M. (Speaker)
30 Mar 2015 → 1 Apr 2015Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Press/Media
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Virkning på verden: Interview med professor Michael Fjeldsøe
01/01/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media