Jens Hesselager

Jens Hesselager

Associate Professor


  1. 2023
  2. Published
  3. Published

    Intervocal Resonances of Angelica Catalani in the Brief Operatic Career of Ida Fonseca

    Hesselager, Jens, 2023, “HER CREATIVE PROCESS”: Pathways to Music History and Performance : Festschrift for Anne Kauppala. Talasniemi, J., Broman-Kananen, U-B. & Koivisto-Kaasik, N. (eds.). Helsinki: Docmus Research Publications, Vol. 22. p. 57-77 21 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  4. Published

    Julemusik

    Hesselager, Jens, 2023, Den Store Danske. lex.dk, 4 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEncyclopedia chapterCommunication

  5. Submitted

    Zwischen Gebrauchsmusik und Kanonisierung: Schauspielmusik im 18. und langen 19. Jahrhundert in Dänemark

    Hesselager, Jens, 2023, (Submitted) Handbuch Schauspielmusik. Tumat, A. & Ricke, A. (eds.). Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 4 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  6. 2022
  7. Published

    Færre spørgsmål end svar

    Hesselager, Jens, 13 Sep 2022, In: PubliMus. 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  8. Published

    Musik i Danmark: Den korte historie

    Hesselager, Jens, 2022, København: Multivers. 288 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  9. 2021
  10. Submitted

    Herman Severin Løvenskiold and Hans Haagen Nyegaard: Turandot, Copenhagen, 1854

    Hesselager, Jens, 9 Jul 2021, (Submitted) Gozzi lirico. Project 300. Faverzani, C. & Ranzini, P. (eds.). 10 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  11. Submitted

    J.P.E. Hartmann and Hans Christian Andersen: Ravnen, eller Broderprøven, 1832 (1865)

    Hesselager, Jens, 29 Nov 2021, (Submitted) Gozzi lirico. Project 300. Faverzani, C. & Ranzini, P. (eds.). 11 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  12. Published

    Musikhistorien og den omrejsende musik

    Hesselager, Jens, 2021, Det historiske blik. Kallenbach, U. & Kluge, S. (eds.). Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 101-110 9 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  13. 2020
  14. Submitted

    Die Musik in Dänemark

    Hesselager, Jens, 3 Nov 2020, (Submitted) Die Musik in Nordeuropa. Dinslage, P. & Knust, M. (eds.). 87 p. (Musikländer der Welt).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Hans Christian Andersen and J.P.E. Hartmann’s opera Ravnen as a ‘melodramatisation’ of Carlo Gozzi’s Il Corvo

    Hesselager, Jens, 23 Nov 2020, Das Melodram in Geschichte und Aufführungspraxis. Philipsen, C. & Omonsky, U. (eds.). Augsburg: Wissner Verlag, p. 207-224 17 p. (Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte, Vol. 87).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  16. 2018
  17. Published

    Grand Opera Outside Paris: Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Hesselager, Jens (ed.), Moeckli, L., Hallgren, K., Hibberd, S., Hauck, C., Broman-Kananen, U., Kauppala, A., Ander, O., Cymbron, L., Bonomi, E. & Solare, C. M., 2018, Abingdon: Routledge. 236 p. (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  18. Published

    Introduction

    Hesselager, Jens, 2018, Grand Opera Outside Paris: Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Hesselager, J. (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 1-9 9 p. (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Music and subterranean space in La Citerne (1809)

    Hesselager, Jens, 2018, The Melodramatic Moment: Music and theatrical culture, 1790-1820. Hambridge, K. & Hicks, J. (eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 117-136 20 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Sympathy for the devil? Bertram (Robert le diable) in Copenhagen, 1833

    Hesselager, Jens, 2018, Grand Opera Outside Paris: Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Hesselager, J. (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 97-113 17 p. (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  21. 2017
  22. Published

    Introduction

    Hesselager, Jens, Kauppala, A. & Broman-Kananen, U., 22 Dec 2017, Tracing Operatic Performances in the Long Nineteenth Century: Practices, Performers, Peripheries. Helsinki: Docmus Research Publications, Vol. 9. (DocMus Research Publications).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Jens Brincker: Ib Nørholm: komponisten, musikken, tiden ... [anmeldelse]

    Hesselager, Jens, 26 Oct 2017, In: Danish Yearbook of Musicology. 41, 2, p. 25-27 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  24. Published
  25. Published

    Tracing Operatic Performances in the Long Nineteenth Century: Practices, Performers, Peripheries

    Hesselager, Jens (ed.), Kauppala, A. (ed.), Broman-Kananen, U. (ed.), Poriss, H., Rowden, C., Gademan, G., Tegnér, G., Broman-Kananen, U., Selvik, R., Gjervan, E. K. & Ketomäki, H., 22 Dec 2017, Helsinki: Docmus Research Publications. 296 p. (DocMus Research Publications, Vol. 9).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  26. 2016
  27. Published

    Nineteenth-Century Grand Opera outside Paris, Copenhagen, December 2014.

    Hesselager, Jens, 1 Nov 2016, In: Danish Yearbook of Musicology. p. 111-112 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference article

  28. Published

    Recitative and Modernity in Copenhagen, c. 1720-1850

    Hesselager, Jens, 1 Oct 2016, "Verwandlung der Welt"?: Die Musikkultur des Ostseeraums in der Sattelzeit. Loeser, M. (ed.). Berlin: Frank & Timme, p. 61-75 15 p. (Greifswalde Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 21).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  29. 2015
  30. Published

    Provincialism within limits? Nationalism and cultural transfer in Danish mid-19th century musical culture

    Hesselager, Jens, 1 Jul 2015, Musik im Spannungsfeld zwischen nationalem Denken und Weltbürgertum: Franz Liszt zum 200. Geburtstag. Redepenning, D. (ed.). Universitätsverlag Winter, p. 205-222 (Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Vol. 67).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    To veje for professionaliseringen af dansk musikteater i første halvdel af det nittende århundrede

    Hesselager, Jens, 8 Apr 2015, Lidenskap eller levebrød?: Utøvende kunst i endring rundt 1800. Selvik, R., Gladsø, S. & Gjervan, E. K. (eds.). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, p. 123-146

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  32. 2014
  33. Published

    Fortsat krig mod humaniora

    Hesselager, Jens, 13 Oct 2014, In: Dagbladet Information.

    Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Comment/debate

  34. Published

    Kunzen’s Incidental Music: Musico-theatrical Practices, Strategies and Experiments in Early 19th Century Copenhagen.

    Hesselager, Jens, 2014, Der Komponist Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen (1761-1817): Gattungen. Werke. Kontexte.. Wald-Furhmann, M. & Wiesenfeldt, C. (eds.). Böhlau, Wien, Köln Weimar, p. 142-165

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Musik til Skuespil: Two Methodological Challenges and a Few Observations Occasioned by an Early Nineteenth-Century Danish Manuscript of Incidental Music

    Hesselager, Jens, 14 May 2014, Theater mit Musik. 400 Jahre Schauspielmusik im europäischen Theater: Bedingungen, Strategien, Wahrnehmungen. Kramer, U. (ed.). Transcript Verlag, p. xx-xx (Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften, Vol. 16).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  36. 2012
  37. Published

    Rachel the Jewess in Copenhagen

    Hesselager, Jens, 30 Dec 2012, Opera on the Move in the Nordic Countries during the Long 19th Century. Sivuoja, A., Ander, O., Broman-Kananen, U-B. & Hesselager, J. (eds.). Helsinki: Docmus Research Publications, p. 221-249 29 p. (Docmus Research Publications, Vol. 4).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    Sonorizing Melodramatic Stage Directions: ‘Reflexive performance’ as a way of approaching nineteenth-century French melodrama

    Hesselager, Jens, Feb 2012, In: Nordic Theatre Studies. 23=2011, p. 20-30 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  39. Published

    Introduction

    Sivuoja, A., Hesselager, Jens, Ander, O. & Broman-Kananen, U., 30 Dec 2012, Opera on the Move in the Nordic Countries during the Long Nineteenth Century. Sivuoja, A., Ander, O., Broman-Kananen, U-B. & Hesselager, J. (eds.). Helsinki: Docmus Research Publications, p. 7-14 7 p. (Docmus Research Publications, Vol. 4).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  40. 2011
  41. Published

    Operatic or theatrical? Orchestral framings of the voice in the melodrama Sept Heures (1829)

    Hesselager, Jens, 1 Nov 2011, Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama. Hibberd, S. (ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate, p. 27-44 18 p. (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  42. 2010
  43. Published

    »There be light!«: »Stormen paa Kjøbenhavn« (1845) and the Danish Reception of French Grand Opera

    Hesselager, Jens, 2010, In: Die Tonkunst. 4, 2, p. 199-207 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  44. 2009
  45. Published

    Martin Knust: Sprachvertonung und Gestik in den Werken Richard Wagners. Einflüsse zeitgenössischer Rezitations- und Deklamationspraxis

    Hesselager, Jens, 2009, In: Dansk årbog for musikforskning. 36, p. 91-93 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  46. 2008
  47. Published

    Analytiske tilgange til Verdis musikdramaturgiske formsprog: Overvejelser med udgangspunkt i Un ballo in maschera

    Hesselager, Jens, 2008, In: Musik & Forskning. 31 2007, p. 19-43

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  48. Published

    Fra fransk melodrama til dansk 'Pragtspektakel': Staffage, from inderlighed og kongehyldest i Salomons Dom (1817)

    Hesselager, Jens, 2008, A due : Musical Essays in Honour of John D. Bergsagel & Heinrich W. Schwab. Kongsted, O., Krabbe, N., Kube, M. & Michelsen, M. (eds.). København: Det Kongelige Bibliotek, p. 230-243 14 p. (Danish Humanist Texts and Studies, Vol. 37).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  49. 2006
  50. Published

    Uden for operahistoriens hovedspor. Berlioz´Benvenuto Cellini og Schumanns Genoveva.

    Hesselager, Jens, 2006, In: Dansk årbog for musikforskning. 33/2005, p. 59-76

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  51. 2005
  52. Published

    Hector Berlioz og det parisiske boulevardmelodramas æstetik

    Hesselager, Jens, 2005, In: Musik og Forskning. 30, p. 7-44

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  53. 2004
  54. Published

    Fire memoer om György Kurtágs ...quasi una fantasia...

    Hesselager, Jens, 2004, In: Musik & Forskning. 29 (24), p. 9-13

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  55. Published

    Making Sense of Sounds: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ideas on Instrumentation

    Hesselager, Jens, 2004, Kbh.: Dansk Musik Tidsskrifts Forlag. 201 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportPh.D. thesis

  56. Published

    Tradition, Renewal, Rationality.

    Hesselager, Jens & Brincker, J., 2004, Nordic Music Days 2004. Programme book.. Copenhagen, Helsingborg, Malmø, p. 18-24

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  57. 2002
  58. Published

    Klangfarvet kritik

    Hesselager, Jens, 2002, In: Dansk musisk tidsskrift. 2002-2003, 3, p. 85-88 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  59. Published

    Svend Nielsen (b. 1937)

    Hesselager, Jens, 2002

    Research output: Non-textual formDatasetCommunication

  60. 2001
  61. Published

    Mellem instrumentation og harmonik

    Hesselager, Jens, 2001, In: Autograf. 4, 10. årgang, p. 3-5

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  62. Published
  63. 2000
  64. Published

    Den musikalske hukommelse

    Hesselager, Jens, 2000, In: Dagbladet Information.

    Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Newspaper article

  65. Published

    Helt ud til kanten

    Hesselager, Jens, 2000, In: Dagbladet Information.

    Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Newspaper article

  66. Published

    Niels Marthinsen (b.1963)

    Hesselager, Jens, 2000

    Research output: Non-textual formDatasetCommunication

  67. 1999
  68. Published

    Das "double" des Komponisten. Konsequenzen dänischer Einfachheit bei Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

    Hesselager, Jens, 1999, In: Positionen : Beiträge zur neuen Musik. 41, p. 27-32

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  69. 1998
  70. Published

    Ånd og mening. Om Niels Marthinsen og hans værk Outland

    Hesselager, Jens, 1998, In: Dansk musisk tidsskrift. 8. 1997/98, p. 250-256

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  71. 1997
  72. Published

    On the Centrality of the Western Avantgarde Tradition

    Hesselager, Jens, 1997, IN THE PLURAL - Institutions, pluralism and critical selfawareness in contemporary music. 8, 1997/98 ed. København: Museum Tusculanum, p. 39-42

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  73. 1995
  74. Published

    Spejlbilleder

    Hesselager, Jens, 1995, In: Dansk musisk tidsskrift. 7, 1994/95, p. 254-261

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

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