Tatjana Čunko graduated in Musicology and Music Journalism from the Zagreb Academy of Music in 1986, where she obtained her master’s degree (MSc) in 2004 with the thesis Instrumental Music in Croatia in the 17th Century and earned her doctoral degree in 2011 with the thesis Croatian Music and Croatian Radio (published by Croatian Radio – Third Programme in 2012). She has been an editor in the Croatian Radio Music Department of the Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) since 1986 (from 2001 to 2004 an Editor in the Classical Music Department). Aside from her editorial and authorship work on the radio, she has published scholarly articles in numerous international journals and anthologies. She is one of the editors of the monograph Varaždin Chamber Orchestra 1994-2004 (2004), and of the Music and Historical Experience. Essays in Honour of Dr Sanja Majer- Bobetko (2022), the final editor of the monograph Varaždin Chamber Orchestra 1994-2014: Two Decades of Enthusiasm (2014) and she contributed to the monograph Eight Decades. 1930-2010. Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra (2010). Since 2019 she has been a lecturer at the Zagreb Academy of Music, and since the summer of 2020 serves as researcher in the Division for the History of Croatian Music of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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Esteban Buch (Buenos Aires, 1963) is a professor of music history at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist in the relationships between music and politics in the twentieth century, he is the author of Beethoven’s Ninth. A Political History (The University of Chicago Press, 2003) and other essays on the composer, as well as of Trauermarsch. L’Orchestre de Paris dans l’Argentine de la dictature (Seuil, 2016) and Le cas Schönberg. Naissance de l’avant-garde musicale (Gallimard, 2006). He has also coedited the volumes Composing for the State: Music in Twentieth Century Dictatorships (Routledge, 2016) and Finding Democracy in Music (Routledge, 2021), and other collective works.

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Michael Fjeldsøe's research has focused on art music and applied music in the 19th and 20th centuries, esp. in Central and Eastern Europe and Denmark. Research questions are concerned with relations of music and politics, music and society, music and nationalism; in short, how music impacts society. A significant interest since my PhD (1999) on the reception of modernist art music in Denmark, 1920-1940, has been Danish musical culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. A much broader perspective on musical culture, including genres of applied music like theatre music, political music, music for revues, cabarets and education, and the role of progressive music in society, was applied in my dr.Phil. dissertation, Kulturradikalismens musik (2013). A continuous main topic is Danish music and music history, regarded as history of musical culture, with Carl Nielsen and other composers represented in a number of studies and scholarly, critical editions of musical works. Currently, I am head of a collective research project which will provide a new monography on Carl Nielsen as a European composer (to be published in 2023), funded by Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat.

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Yvonne Wasserloos studied Musicology, History, German and Scandinavian studies at the WWU Münster (1996 Magistra Artium-Degree); 2002 PhD (Dissertation Kulturgezeiten. Niels W. Gade und C.F.E. Horneman in Leipzig und Kopenhagen, supervisor Klaus Hortschansky); 2014 Habilitation (Musik und Staat. Dimensionen der Interaktion im 20. Jahrhundert) at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen. She worked as a Lecturer and Professor for Musicology and German Cultural Studies at the Universities of Berlin, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Leuven, London, Lüneburg and Münster. From 2017-2022 she was Professor for Musicology and Head of the Zentrum für Verfemte Musik at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock. In October 2022 she will take over a professorship (Chair for Musicology) at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

Her research focuses on music, society and politics, especially in regard to National Socialism and right-wing extremism, occupation and music in Denmark (1940-1945), (Northern) European cultural transfer, the institutionalization of music education in the 18th and 19th centuries, Memory culture and political popular music.

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Born in Trier (Trier) in 1960, university studies in history, art history and political science at the University of Trier, degree 'Magister Artium' in 1985, PhD at the University of Trier in 1991. Scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute in Rome in 1987/1988, member of the organising committee for the centenary preparations of the German Historical Institute in 1988, curator of the exhibition catalogue on the history of the Institute. Researcher at the University of Trier 1988-1991, at the University of Cologne 1992-1999. Scholarship holder at the Historisches Kolleg Foundation in Munich in the academic year 1997/98, Feodor-Lynen scholarship holder at the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (research stay at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne) in 1998/99. Since April 1999 researcher at the German Historical Institute in Rome with responsibility for the field of Contemporary History. In 2016 qualification as a lecturer in modern and contemporary history and member of the teaching staff of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Since March 2017 Deputy Director.

Awarded 'Acqui Storia' in 1994 for the book 'The German Occupation in Italy 1943-1945'. In 1994 activity as historical expert of the Koblenz Court of Appeal at the trial against W. Lehnigk-Emden for the massacre of Italian civilians in Caiazzo. Consultant to the 'Parliamentary bicameral Commission of Inquiry into the causes of the concealment of files relating to Nazi-Fascist crimes' (2004-2006) and to the 'Commission for the recovery of the bibliographic heritage of the Jewish Community of Rome, plundered in 1943' (2005-2007). Member of the Italian-German Historical Commission established by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany from 2009 to 2012.

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Klinkhammer, L. (1994). Zwischen Bündnis und Besatzung: Das nationalsozialistische Deutschland und die Republik von Salò 1943-1945. de Gruyter.

Gentile, C., (Italy), I. L., Klinkhammer, L., & Prauser, S. (2003). I nazisti: i rapporti tra Italia e Germania nelle fotografie dell’Istituto Luce. Editori Riuniti.

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Erik Levi is Visiting Professor in Music at Royal Holloway, having formerly been Professor of Music and Director of Performance there up to 2015. He studied in the Universities of Cambridge and York and at Berlin Staatliche Hochschule für Musik. An extremely versatile musician, he has interests both in the academic and practical aspects of music, having become a worldwide authority on German music of the 20th century especially during the Nazi era  with the  pioneering books Music in the Third Reich (1994) and Mozart and the Nazis (2010). He has also worked as a professional accompanist, appearing at the South Bank and Wigmore Hall, the Aldeburgh Festival and on over thirty BBC Recordings. A frequent broadcaster for BBC Radio 3, he also works regularly as a music journalist writing articles and CD reviews for BBC Music Magazine and International Piano. Erik Levi is also Academic Director of the International Centre for Suppressed Music at Royal Holloway,  and has organised a number of Conferences on topics that include music and national identity in the 1930s, the composition class of Franz Schreker, Music and Displacement, the impact of Nazism on twentieth-century music, Hanns Eisler and England  and most recently Music under German Occupation during the Second World War.  The research students he has supervised  have submitted PhDs on a wide range of topics including the use of Kitsch  and popular culture  in opera during the Weimar Republic, Paul Bekker, Alfredo Casella and Italian Fascism, the music of Matyas Seiber, the musical press in Franco’s Spain, Music during the First World War in Britain, and Alan Bush and the London Labour Choral Union.

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Levi, E. (1996). Music in the third Reich (1994th ed.). Palgrave MacMillan.

Levi, E. (2017). Mozart and the Nazis: How the third Reich abused a cultural icon. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300165814

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This is Claiming Beethoven. We portrait a group of international musicologists and historians examining aspects of propaganda, collaboration, resistance, persecution and exile, to learn about the distortion of historiography and the relevance for our own present times. This podcast by Michael Custodis and his team at the University of Münster is related to the project "The Role of Beethoven and His Music in Nazi-Occupied European Countries".