Gerda Lechleitner
is Curator of the historical collections at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Gerda Lechleitner is curator of the historical collections at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is editor of the CD edition "The Complete Historical Collections 1899–1950" and the Phonogrammarchiv’s Yearbook “International Forum on Audio-Visual Research”. Her topics of research are: the intellectual history around 1900, the history and development of audiovisual archives, and the archival turn. She is interested in the significance of (acoustic) historical sources, in music and minorities, and multipart music.