Beate Angelika Kraus studied musicology and romantic philology at the universities of Hamburg and Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), and was a scholarship holder of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes". In 1998, she received her doctorate with a dissertation on the reception of Beethoven's music in France titled "Beethoven-Rezeption in Frankreich: Von ihren Anfängen bis zum Untergang des Second Empire".
Since then, she has been a researcher at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn while also teaching. She was the editor of the Ninth Symphony opus 125 within the Beethoven-Gesamtausgabe (Munich 2020). She has also published several works on Elly Ney, such as "Exilmusik auf Frankreichs Bühnen? Musiktheater in Paris von 1933 bis 1944", as well as on Kurt Singer, Beethoven und Fidelio.
Follow us on