... studied Musicology and Hungarian Studies at the University of Florence, where she also received her PhD in History of Performing Arts (2016). Moreover she has obtained scholarships at the Balassi Institute, the Franz Liszt Music Academy and the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Later Elena was contract worker at the University of Florence, postdoctoral fellow and contract worker at the German Historical Institute in Rome. Since 2016 she has been part of the editorial team of Nuove Musiche and since 2019 a member of the research group “Accademie Toscane” of the Centro Internazionale di Studi sul Seicento, Università per Stranieri in Siena.
At the Oeaw she collaborates on the Fux Projekt, where she is engaged in the critical edition of sacred oratorios. From October 2023 she will be in charge of the 'Flora et Germana' project. She is part of the research unit Musicology.
Publications
- Abbado, Elena (2022) The Prague Masses by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini., S. 3-18.Webseite RIS ENW BIB
- Abbado, Elena (2021) "Musicorum Coetus Pro Anima”. La vanitas musicale di San Niccolò del Ceppo a Firenze e i suoi modelli iconografici tra Jacopo Ligozzi e Federico Zuccari. Imago Musicae. International Yearbook of Musical Iconography, Bd. 31/32, S. 137-164.Webseite RIS ENW BIB
- Abbado, Elena (2020) La fortuna di Giovanni Maria Bononcini a Firenze attraverso gli oratori e i centoni. In: Vanscheeuwijck, Marc (Hrsg.), I Bononcini: da Modena all'Europa; Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, S. 187-201.Webseite RIS ENW BIB
- Abbado, Elena (2020) Rodrigo as seen by “Rodrigo”: Staging and reception of Handel‘s first Italian opera. Händel-Jahrbuch, Bd. 66, S. 339-369.Webseite RIS ENW BIB
- Abbado, Elena (Hrsg.) (2019) Imaginary Bridges: Music@VillaRomana 2009-2010., ISBN: 978870969924. Aufl.; Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana (144 Seiten).Webseite RIS ENW BIB
- Abbado, Elena (2019) “Il bacio della giustizia e della pace”. Aspekte der Friedensthematik im italienischen Oratorium. Die Tonkunst, Bd. 1/2019 (1/2019), S. 63-70.Webseite RIS ENW BIB
- Abbado, Elena (01.12.2017) “Come dovrebbe essere una rivista di musica contemporanea oggi”. Sondaggio n. 1: Opinioni e proposte dei compositori italiani. Nuove Musiche, Bd. 2, 2017, S. 173-189.RIS ENW BIB
- Abbado, Elena; Mancuso, Piergabriele (2017) The bound music fragments from Natione Israelitica collection in Florence: a preliminary survey., Bd. XXII (2017), S. 233-248.Webseite RIS ENW BIB