Gerlinde Haid (born Hofer (19 April 1943 – 29 November 2012) was an Austrian

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

researcher.

Life

Born in

Bad Aussee Bad Aussee (Central Bavarian: ''Bod Ossee'') is a town in the Austrian state of Styria, located at the confluence of the three sources of the Traun River in the Ausseerland region. Bad Aussee serves as the economic and cultural center of the Styri ...

, Haid attended the primary schools in Bad Aussee as well as the and graduated in 1961. She then studied

music education Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do origina ...

and German language and literature at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

. In 1965, she passed the teacher's examination and erwarb den Titel Magistra of philosophy. From 1966 to 1976, she was a research assistant at the at the

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817. With a student body of over three thousa ...

. She also studied

folklore Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as tales, legends, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, ranging ...

and

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

at the University of Vienna and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy in 1976.Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz: ''Gerlinde Haid''
; retrieved 4 September 2021 From 1975 to 1989 she was secretary general of the and then university assistant at the Institute for Musical Folklore at the Expositur Innsbruck. From 1994 until her retirement in 2011, she was full professor of the history and theory of folk music at the Hochschule (from 1998 University) für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Her main field of research was folk music of the Alps. Haid was the editor of the series "Schriften zur Volksmusik", which Walter Deutsch founded in 1970 and which are among the most well-founded publications of the subject in Austria. She also wrote numerous articles on musical customs and folk dances for the ''

Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon The ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon'Oesterreichisch'' with ''Oe'' is the spelling of the print and online output. is a five-volume music encyclopedia founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Commission for Music Research. It was officiall ...

''. Haid was married to the Tyrolean folklorist and dialect poet Hans Haid.ORF-Online: ''Trauer um Gerlinde Haid''
retrieved 4 September 2021 Haid died in Innsbruck at the age of 69.Klocker Bestattung: ''Todesanzeige''
retrieved 4 September 2021

Awards

2003 wurde ihr vom Bundespräsidenten das Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse überreicht. Im Jahr 2010, erhielt sie den '' Walter Deutsch Staatspreis'', der vom Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung alle zwei Jahre in Anerkennung besonderer Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Volksmusikforschung verliehen wird.

Publications

* with : ''Die schönsten Lieder Österreichs''. Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Wien/Heidelberg 1979, . * ''Tanzbeschreibungen, Tanzforschung. Gesammelte Volkstanzstudien'' with Ilka Peter, Karl Horak, Gerald Riedler. Österreichisches Volksliedwerk / Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1983.

References

External links

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Aufnahmen von und mit Gerlinde Haid
im Onlinearchiv der Österreichischen Mediathek {{DEFAULTSORT:Haid, Gerlinde Folk-song collectors Austrian ethnomusicologists Austrian women musicologists Academic staff of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Austrian folk music Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class 1943 births 2012 deaths People from Bad Aussee