Michael Lorenz (born 18 July 1958) is an Austrian
musicologist, noted as a
Mozart scholar and for his archival work combining music history and genealogical research.
Career
Born in Vienna, Lorenz studied
cello and
oboe at the
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna where he obtained his
diploma in 1990, and musicology at the
University of Vienna with a
PhD in 2001. From 2001 to 2005 he served as chair of the International
Franz Schubert Institute. Lorenz has received grants from the Jubilee Foundation of
Oesterreichische Nationalbank, the
Austrian Science Fund and the Music & Letters Trust. After having worked with the Esterházy Foundation, he is currently[when?] doing research based on a grant from the Jubilee Foundation of city of Vienna. In 2014 and 2016 he was employed as lecturer at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna.
1997 "
Franz Jakob Freystädtler [
de]. Neue Forschungsergebnisse zu seiner Biographie und seinen Spuren im Werk Mozarts", Acta Mozartiana, 44, vol. 3–4 (December), 85–108.
1999 "Schuberts Freund Dr. Bernhard. Eine Neubewertung der Quellen", Schubert durch die Brille 23 (Tutzing: Schneider), 3–64.
1999 "'Viele glaubten und glauben noch, absichtlich.' – Der Tod der Ludovica Siboni", Schubert durch die Brille 23 (Tutzing: Schneider), 47–74.
2000 "Karl Enderes. Eine biographische Studie", Schubert durch die Brille 24 (Tutzing: Schneider), 31–80.
2000 "Genealogische Anmerkungen zu Joseph von Gahy", Schubert durch die Brille 24 (Tutzing: Schneider), 19–26.
2000 "Mozarts Haftungserklärung für Freystädtler. Eine Chronologie", Mozart-Jahrbuch 1998 (Kassel: Bärenreiter), 1–19.
2000 "Gottfried Ignaz von Ployers Haus in Döbling. Eine vergessene Mozartstätte", Acta Mozartiana, 47, vol. 1–2 (June), 11–24.
2000 "Dokumente zur Biographie
Johann Mayrhofers", Schubert durch die Brille 25 (Tutzing: Schneider), 21–50.
2001 "Baronin Droßdik und die verschneyten Nachtigallen. Biographische Anmerkungen zu einem Schubert-Dokument", Schubert durch die Brille 26 (Tutzing: Schneider), 47–88.
2001 "Studien zum Schubert-Kreis", Ph. Diss., University of Vienna, 2001 (extended and revised edition to be published in 2011).[needs update]
2002 "Mehrere Bernhards. Die Lösung des Dr. J. Bernhard-Rätsels", Schubert durch die Brille 28 (Tutzing: Schneider), 101–150.
2003 "Die Familie Schober und ihr genealogisches Umfeld", Schubert durch die Brille 30 (Tutzing: Schneider), 129–192 (appendix: The Schober Genealogy).
2006 "New and Old Documents Concerning Mozart's Students
Barbara Ployer and Josepha Auernhammer", Eighteenth-Century Music, vol. 3, no. 2, September 2006 (Cambridge University Press), 311–322.
2006 "Behind the Wunder: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and His Relevance Today", Austria Culture, Online magazine of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, January – February 2006 (www.acfny.org).[clarification needed]
2006 "»Mademoiselle Jeunehomme«. Zur Lösung eines Mozart-Rätsels", Mozart Experiment Aufklärung. Essays for the Mozart Exhibition 2006 (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, Da Ponte-Institut, 2006), 423–429.
2007 "Commentary on Wawruch's Report: Biographies of
Andreas Wawruch [
de] and Johann Seibert,
Schindler's Responses to Wawruch's Report, and Beethoven's Medical Condition and Alcohol Consumption", The Beethoven Journal, Winter 2007, vol. 22, no. 2 (San Jose: The Ira Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, 2007), 92–100.
2010 "Mozart's Last Residence: A Few Necessary Comments", English version of the above article published on the internet on 5 September 2010.[clarification needed]
"New Archival Documentation on the Theater auf der Wieden and Emanuel Schikaneder", Die Zauberflöte: sources – contexte – représentations, Edited by Henri Vanhulst, (Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2018), 27-48.