
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0983-818X
- Research Associate
- PhD, Musicology
- Chair of the MUSIQUM database working group (A Digital Panorama of the 19th Century Musical Heritage in Slovenia)
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marusa.zupancic@zrc-sazu.si
Music of the late 18th,19th, and the beginning of the 20th century, music migration, concert life, violin virtuosos, imported musical trends, musical network, development of violin playing in the Slovene Lands, the impact of Prague violin school throughout Europe, the influx of musicians to the Slovene Lands, Joseph Benesch (1795–1873), Oskar Rieding (1846–1916), bourgeois musical culture, women in music, interludes in the Estates Theater in Ljubljana (1802–1837), digital humanities
5 most relevant articles/chapters in the last 5 years (2018–2023):
- "Institutionalization of modern bourgeois musical culture in nineteenth-century Carniola and Lower Styria." Arti musices, 54, no. 2 (2023): 289-333. https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/452699.
- "Between Acts: Instrumental Music in Ljubljana’s Estates Theatre (1802–1837)." Muzikološki zbornik, 59, no. 1-2 (2023): 225-277. https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.59.1-2.225-277
- "The role and contribution of immigrant musicians to the music societies in the Slovene lands until the dissolution of Austria-Hungary". In: WEISS, Jernej (ed.). Glasbena društva v dolgem 19. stoletju: med ljubiteljsko in profesionalno kulturo = Music societies in the long 19th century: between amateur and professional culture : [znanstvena monografija z mednarodno udeležbo]. Elektronska izd. Koper: Založba Univerze na Primorskem; Ljubljana: Festival, 2023. pp. 335-396. Studia musicologica Labacensia, 6. DOI: 10.26493/978-961-293-217-6.335-396
- “Joseph Benesch: A Forgotten Bohemian Violinist and an Imitator of Niccolò Paganini Within the Central European Violinistic Tradition.” De musica disserenda, 18, no. 1–2 (2022): 11–76. https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd18.1-2.01
- “Razvoj Komorne Glasbe Na Slovenskem.” V: Zgodovina Glasbe Na Slovenskem. 3, Glasba Na Slovenskem Med Letoma 1800 in 1918. Edited by Aleš Nagode and Nataša Cigoj Krstulović. Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete; Založba ZRC, 2021, pp. 427–65. https://e-knjige.ff.uni-lj.si/znanstvena-zalozba/catalog/view/319/466/7014-1
- "The Influx of Bohemian Violinists to Slovenia and Croatia up to the1920s." Arti musices, 55, no. 1–2 (2019): 259–300. https://hrcak.srce.hr/23408
Researches in the history of music in Slovenia (research programme • January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2014)
Music migrations in the early modern age: the meeting of the European East, West and South (September 1, 2013 - August 31, 2016)
The Prague Conservatory as a Centre of European Music Culture in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century: Influences of the Prague Violin School and Migrations of its Representatives through Europe (postdoctoral research project • July 1, 2014 - February 28, 2018)
Influx of musicians to the Slovene Lands during the long 19th century – their impact and integration (fundamental research project • October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2021)
She graduated in Musicology from the University of Ljubljana in 2007. In the same year, she was engaged as a junior researcher at the Institute of Musicology ZRC SAZU and received the Prešeren Award from the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. In 2012, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Ljubljana with a dissertation on the development of violin playing in the Slovene Lands until the beginning of the Second World War. Since 2015, she is a research fellow at the Institute of Musicology, where her work is focused primarily on music migration and the development of violin playing in Europe from the late 18th to the 20th century. In 2006/2007 she studied at the Masaryk University in Brno and in 2008/2009 at the Charles University in Prague, where she also completed an internship at the Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. For several months, she furthered her studies in Boston and New York in the United States and in Leuven, Belgium. In 2017, she traveled to Zagreb for a one-month research visit at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts as well as at the Croatian Music Institute.
She has participated in several national and international (HERA) research projects, taking on a leadership role in two of these. She regularly presents her findings at international Musicological conferences, publishes articles and monographs, and specializes in Digital Humanities. She participates in summer schools, courses, and workshops in Digital Humanities: University of Göttingen (2014), University of Oxford (2016), Central European University Budapest (2019), University of Ljubljana (2019), Innsbruck University (2020), Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (2020), University of Amsterdam (2020), Harvard University (2020), Université de la Rochelle (2021), University of Pisa (2023), Antwerp University (2023).
In 2018, she received an international certificate “Digital Marketing Professional” (Digital Marketing Institute, Dublin, Ireland). She is a member of several international musicological societies and organizational boards and a chair of the MUSIQUM database.