Marten Noorduin
martennoorduin.bsky.social
Marten Noorduin
@martennoorduin.bsky.social
Musicologist. Views are my own. Dutch, formerly in the UK, now in Germany.

Academic things: https://mh-luebeck.academia.edu/MartenNoorduin
email: firstnamelastname at gmaildotcom
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Sad news out of Nottingham Uni: "world-leading" but suspending (i.e. closing for now) music and modern languages programmes? Surely not. I hope they reconsider.
Please sign this petition protesting the closure of the music programmes:
c.org/k884FyfWPt
We Can Make an Impact.
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
c.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I am so looking forward to waking up to a chorus international political commentaters and their no doubt terrible takes on the Dutch election results.
October 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Out now: my full issue of NCMR on Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century! Thanks to all of the authors and my co-editor Annelies Andries for their amazing work!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge Core
Nineteenth-Century Music Review - Professor Martin Clarke, Professor Rosemary Golding
www.cambridge.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I used to see a lot more threads like this one back in the other place. This is a super helpful and ongoing summary of a discussion that affects all in academia, whether you are junior, mid-career, or a senior academic. Recommended!👇👇👇
Day two of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Presidency Conference! Today the focus is diversity, equity, inclusion and well-being. I am very excited for these conversations!

#MSCA #MSCA2025DK
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If you are interested in research into early recordings, check out our blog reporting on the STSM hosted by @evamoreda.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow in June 2025! earlymuse.eu/publications...
Early Music on Early Recordings: Toward a Sustainable, Co-Created Database - EarlyMuse
Historical musicology has traditionally privileged written items—such as scores, manuscripts, and personal correspondence—as its primary sources, while sound recordings have been relatively overlooked...
earlymuse.eu
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
One day I will write an article about all the ways my name has been misspelled in (usually positive) reviews.
September 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Since the news is out now anyway, I am very happy to share that I have been awarded a large research grant from the @dfg.de for my research project 'The Material, the Artistic, and the Social: Orchestral Rehearsals in and around Berlin and London, 1813 – 1869'. See gepris.dfg.de/gepris/proje...
DFG - GEPRIS - The Material, the Artistic, and the Social: Orchestral Rehearsals in and around Berlin and London, 1813 – 1869
Musicological scholarship has long detected a substantial gap between current and nineteenth-century performances of music. One important reason for this ...
gepris.dfg.de
July 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
NEW Blogpost: at the University of Valencia, six musicologists from all over Europe met to discuss the position of historical musicology in higher education. Have a look!
Reflecting on Historical Musicology in European Higher Music Education Institutions: A Collaborative Endeavour by Aleksandra Pister, Christophe Levaux, Ferran Escrivà Llorca, Gareth Balch, Marianna Si...
At the invitation of Ferran Escrivà Llorca (Universitat de València), we recently took part in a collaborative research initiative titled “Historical Musicology in European HMEIs: Institutional Framew...
earlymuse.eu
July 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A difficult week, as I returned to Manchester for the memorial of my friend and to place a plaque in his memory, co-written by his loved ones, in the concert hall that he frequently visited. Now 7 days in Naples for an entirely different kind of co-writing: a text on artistic research for EarlyMuse.
June 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Happy to announce that my book on anti-Americanism and the American pianists who studied in Weimar, Berlin, and Vienna around 1900 is now under contract with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social . The book should be out in 2026, and is the primary outcome of the big DFG-Project that I worked on in Lübeck.
June 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Very troubling: the University of Greifswald @unigreifswald.bsky.social is threatening to abandon its musicology department. www.faz.net/aktuell/karr...
Uni Greifswald will ihre Musikwissenschaft abschaffen
Die Universität Greifswald spart und setzt auf Trends wie die sogenannten Digital Humanities. Das hat Folgen: In dieser Woche will sie die Abschaffung ihres Fachs Musikwissenschaft beschließen.
www.faz.net
May 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Our beloved institute at Leiden University, the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, is under fire. Please consider signing and sharing 🙏 chng.it/rFQcwt4qMz
Sign the Petition
In Defense of Art Research: A Call to Support ACPA, PhDArts, and docARTES
chng.it
May 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thank you, mysterious peer reviewers, for being so kind to my project proposal. More about this soon.
April 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
My special edition of NCMR on Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century is finally being published! Many thanks to all the authors, and my co-editor Annelies Andries from Utrecht University. Our introduction to the issue can be read here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
www.cambridge.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Sofia Gubaidulina (24 October 1931 – 13 March 2025).
March 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
My Alma Mater, University College Roosevelt, which was called Roosevelt Academy when I was there, has decided to axe entire fields of studies, including almost all the courses that I took and subsequently based a career on. It's a really crazy story, more here: dub.uu.nl/en/news/ucr-...
UCR teachers' dismissal postponed to allow semester to be completed
The board of University College Roosevelt has sent an email to the teachers who have been dismissed telling them that the dismissal has been postponed so they can finish the semester. The board is rea...
dub.uu.nl
March 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Very happy to be on my way to beautiful Slovenia for another meeting on the performance of early music for EarlyMuse. Looking forward to discussing recent developments in artistic research across Europe with scholars from across the continent.
March 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Okay, you can all unclench those fingers and toes now. Good news came today! (Cannot share publicly yet, as these things go....)
Alright, folks - important week. Kindly keep all available fingers and toes crossed.
February 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Alright, folks - important week. Kindly keep all available fingers and toes crossed.
February 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
In the midst of all the bad news from the UK: here's a nice job in Munich for musicologists with a focus on music before 1750. Apply apply! www.academics.de/jobs/profess...
Professur (W2) für Historische Musikwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Ältere Musikgeschichte - Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
Hochschule für Musik und Theater München bietet Stelle als Professur (W2) für Historische Musikwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Ältere Musikgeschichte in München - jetzt bewerben!
www.academics.de
January 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Here is a petition to avoid closure of the Cardiff School of Music, announced yesterday. Please consider signing. www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
Sign the Petition
SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
www.change.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Really sorry to see these awful rumours about Cardiff. Thinking about friends in their Music department. I hope there can be a swift pushback and that their leadership will listen to alternative proposals. nation.cymru/news/huge-jo...
Huge job cuts announcement 'imminent' at Cardiff University
Martin Shipton Staff at Cardiff University fear huge job cuts are about to be announced by a senior management team that has already spoken of an “immediate existential crisis”. Briefings are due to b...
nation.cymru
January 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The @udkberlin.bsky.social has published a rather beautiful obituary of my friend Stephan Schönlau, who passed away a month ago today. www.udk-berlin.de/universitaet...
Nachruf Dr. Stephan Schönlau – Universität der Künste Berlin
Die Fakultät Musik trauert um Dr. Stephan Schönlau.
www.udk-berlin.de
January 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM