Music and gender in Luxembourg

The project, jointly initiated by the University of Luxembourg and CID | Fraen an Gender, aims to research music history from a gender perspective. In cooperation with the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (Hfmt) and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, who are in charge of the project MUGI (Musik und Gender im Internet), as well as with the Centre national de l’Audiovisuel and the Centre national de Littérature, we:

• create digital collections on women musicians in Luxembourg,
• provide material from various public and private archives in order to make it internationally accessible,
• create new archives and hold oral history interviews with female musicians,
• research this data and publish the outcomes,
• present the results in a multimedia form on the portal MuGi.lu and
• initiate pedagogical projects and new musical performances.

For more information, visit https://history.uni.lu/mugilu/.

In a further step, the MuGi.lu editorial team will be used to incorporate French-language research – in collaboration with the Institut de Musicologie of the Université Sorbonne-Paris – into the MuGi database and to provide transfers between German- and French-language gender musicology.

All copyright-protected documents were published with the permission of the archives and collecting societies. For some materials, however, the rights could not be clearly identified. If you have any complaints or queries, please contact us. The aim of MuGi.lu is to encourage further research. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have additional materials or work in this field and would like to view our archives.

MUGI – Musik und Gender im Internet

Founded by Beatrix Borchard, the research platform “MUGI – Musik und Gender im Internet” was launched in 2004 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with the aim of promoting musicological gender research and anchoring  it more firmly in the of musicology and cultural studies. The Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar has been a cooperation partner since 2022. The research and transfer project now comprises more than 600 lexical entries dealing with musical activities of women in Europe, from antiquity to the present day. It thus sheds light on a part of European cultural history that is still largely unexplored and unknown to the public today. In addition to documenting and commenting on the work of women composers, the project also looks at the people who have worked and continue to work for the performance, interpretation and dissemination of music, including many women interprets, writers, teachers and patrons. The ‘men’s pages’, in turn, take a look at music-makers identified as male, from the perspective of gender research. MUGI responds to the digital cultural change by developing contemporary forms of music education. Application-based formats such as multimedia presentations are designed to improve teaching and the transfer of academic research.