Professor Christian Leitmeir

Professor Christian Leitmeir

Professor Christian Leitmeir

Associate Professor in Music

Tutorial Fellow in Music, Magdalen College

Christian Thomas Leitmeir grew up in Donauwörth, Southern Germany. From 1995 he read Musicology, Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Theology at the University of Munich. In 1999 he completed his MMus degree in Musicology at King’s College London and in 2003 was awarded a DPhil from the Karl-Eberhards-Universität Tübingen (2003). After a Long-Term Frances A. Yates Research Fellowship at the Warburg Institute (London, 2003–2006), he taught at Bangor University (2007-2015), before joining the University of Oxford in 2015.

He is a devoted palaeographer and critical editor. Alongside, he pursues research into other areas, especially German Romantic opera, music around 1900 (with a focus on Richard Strauss) and the history of musicology. He frequently engages in interdisciplinary research, reaching out especially to theology and art history.
He serves as co-editor to Plainsong & Medieval Music, reviews editor for Archa Verbi: Yearbook for the Study of Medieval Theology and on the editorial board of the Journal of the Alamire Foundation and Music Theory & Analysis. In 2013 he was elected into the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea).

At the Faculty of Music, Christian mainly teaches on the history of music from the Middle Ages and the early modern period, including palaeography and music philology. His tutorial teaching covers these subject areas, but additionally extends to other periods of music history.