Kristina Muxfeldt is professor of music in musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she joined the faculty in 2005. She served as chair of the Musicology Department from 2016 to 2019.
Previously, Muxfeldt taught at Yale University for a decade and held visiting appointments at the University of Illinois, Princeton University, and the University of Notre Dame. She has published extensively on European cultural and political conditions during the turbulent decades near the turn of the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on music of Beethoven and Schubert.
Recently, she has turned to archival studies in Vienna to piece together records of women’s involvement in the formation of musical institutions and other aspects of city planning. Thanks to rapidly evolving transcription programs and vibrant interdisciplinary scholarly forums, this overlooked history is finally coming into focus.
Recent publications include “Overcoming Toleranz: Jewish Women’s Social Activism on the Long Road to Emancipation,” in Women’s Agency in Schubert’s Vienna, ed. Andrea Lindmayr- Brandl, Birgit Lodes, and Melanie Unseld, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press (2024); “Two Bars Too Many: ‘An Odd Bit of History’ in the Reception of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony” (coauthored with Scott Burnham), published in Musical Quarterly (2022); and the chapter “Wilhelm Müller’s Odyssey” in The Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s Winterreise (2021). A chapter on “The Napoleonic Wars” is in Schubert in Context, forthcoming from Cambridge.
Muxfeldt’s book, Vanishing Sensibilities: Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, was published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. Other studies have appeared in such periodicals as Journal of theAmerican Musicological Society, 19th-Century Music, Journal of Music Theory, and Music Theory Online and in the edited collections Franz Schubert and His World, The Cambridge Companion to Schubert, The Camden House History of German Literature, and Word, Image, and Song.
