Drin Anna Lara Stoll-Knecht
Senior Scientist – Gastprofessorin | Leiterin Wissenschaftszentrum Gustav Mahler und die Wiener Moderne
Zimmer A 04 17
Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Wien
Short Bio
Anna Stoll Knecht is currently Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Fribourg on an SNF Starting Grant (2024-2028, ‘The musical world of fairgrounds in Switzerland, 19th-21st c.’). In October 2026, she joined the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna as a Visiting Professor and Head of the Center for Research on Gustav Mahler and Viennese Modernism, and in October 2027, she will take up her permanent position as Professor of Musicology. Previously, she held a four-year research grant Ambizione from the Swiss National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Music and Clowning in Europe, 20th-21st centuries", exploring the use of sound and music in physical comedy (Accademia Teatro Dimitri, University of Applied Science and Arts of Southern Switzerland; Ecole de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Paris; Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, 2019-2023). She was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford (Jesus College, 2015-2018), engaged in research on Gustav Mahler’s interpretation of Richard Wagner, both as a conductor and as a composer. Her most recent publications include a monograph on Mahler’s Seventh Symphony (Oxford University Press, Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation, 2019); book chapters and articles on Mahler and Wagner in Gustav Mahlers Klang (Hollitzer, 2026), Wagner Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Studia Musicologica (2024), Wagner in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Mahler in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Rethinking Mahler (Oxford University Press, 2017), The Wagner Journal (2017); a co-edited volume on Mahler’s production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in 1903 (Routledge, 2026); essays on sketch studies and the creative process in Naturlauf: Scholarly Journeys Toward Gustav Mahler (Peter Lang, 2016) and Texts and Beyond: The Process of Music Composition from the 19th to the 20th century, (Ad Parnassum Studies 8, 2016); an article on music and clowning in Geography Notebooks (no 4, 2021 ‘Teatro di suoni. Spazi acustici teatrali e territoriali’); a chapter on Jacques Tati’s soundtracks for the The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema (2023), and a forthcoming essay on the fairground repertoire around 1900 (En Plein Air, Brepols). She also serves as a member in the Zentralvorstand of the Société Suisse de Musicologie, advisory boards of the International Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft Vienna, Gustav Mahler Research Centre Toblach, Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, and as a member of the Editorial Board of The Wagner Journal.