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Francis Maes
Francis Maes
francis.maes@ugent.be
Department
Department of Art, Music and Theatre Sciences
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Projects
Projects as supervisor
The Embodiment of Power during the Restoration of Monarchy between 1814 and 1830. A comparative approach Brussels/The Hague – Vienna– Paris - Berlin & London
(
2025
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2028
)
Extended Characters: Opera’s Fascination with Reconfiguring the Character-Performer Relationship in the Twenty-First Century
(
2018
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2024
)
Boussu inside out. A study of the life, instruments and working methods of the 18th century violin maker Benoit Joseph Boussu. An organological research from various points of view as the foundation for historically informed instrument making
(
2015
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2020
)
The radif in contemporary Iranian musical creation. Musical and contextual perspectives
(
2014
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2016
)
(Post)romantic music criticism in the 19th century. Styles of criticism, exemplified by Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner
(
2012
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2016
)
Popular dance culture in the Southern Netherlands and Central Europe (1795-1830). An intertwined history
(
2010
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2020
)
Türkü and halay between Ghent and Turkey. An ethnographic study of Turkish folk music in a transnational context
(
2008
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2014
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Maes, Francis. “Festival van Vlaanderen.”
Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging
, ADVN, 2024.
Maes, Francis. “Tchaikovsky, Onegin, and the Art of Characterization.”
ARTS
, edited by Dennis Ioffe, vol. 13, no. 3, 2024, doi:10.3390/arts13030082.
Maes, Francis. “The Queen of Spades : A Tale of an Obsession, and Much More?”
Www.Staatsoper.De
, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2024.
Maes, Francis.
Een Verhaal van Net Niet : Een Baanbrekende Interpretatie van Tsjaikovski’s Opera Jevgeni Onegin
. Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, OWL Press, 2023.
Maes, Francis. “Simon Banks, Opera : The Autobiography of the Western World.”
EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY
, vol. 53, no. 4, 2023, pp. 707–08, doi:10.1177/02656914231199945e.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Historiography of Art: Introduction
Music History of the Twentieth Century
Musical Analysis
History of Music: Until 1750
History of Music: 1750-1900