Leonie Krempien 🦁
she/her | Musicologist | English Lit & Culture | 17th c. English Opera & history of musicology | Edmund Spenser groupie | also posts @shakesmus.bsky.social
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁The correct letter-to-the-editor responding to a recent bad op-ed about how classical music is too unpopular. (by Brian Barone, faculty at Berklee)
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁R.I.P. Gerd Knebel 😢
- Aaaaand the "most embarrassing typo"-award goes to... me. 😅
- Read Tal's book Wild Faith!! @swordsjew.bsky.social
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Julia Kerr schrieb eine der verrücktesten Opern des 20. Jahrhunderts – und nahm sie 1933 mit ins Exil, während das rosa Kaninchen ihrer Tochter Judith in Berlin blieb. Nun wird ihr Werk uraufgeführt. 🎶 @donauschwalbe.bsky.social Ohne paywall archive.ph/cy7fG www.zeit.de/2026/01/juli...
- Herzlich willkommen in der Public Domain, Thomas Mann!! 🎆 Lest den Zauberberg, denn er ist sehr gut!
- Also this re: trying to bounce ideas off of an LLM.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Yeah chatgpt is the worst worst solution to the loneliness problem bc instead of the solution being what it actually is (doing the hard thing & overcoming anxiety & awkwardness to connect with people), they're like, here's a NO PEOPLE option, a simulation without any of the friction people come with
- Yeah, so I will take people instead of the plagiarism human speech imitation machine, thanks.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Das ist KEINE Restauration & auch KEINE Qualitätsarbeit. Schellack wäscht man mit Spiritus/Stahlwolle ab, nutzt NIEMALS Schleifmaschinen bei diesem dünnen historischen Furnier, plörrt man neuen Lack niemals so auf. Dieses Möbel hätte eine Handpolitur gebraucht, auch für eine Wertsteigerung 😟
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁I finally finished the last episode today (love a super long episode) and feel the need to stress again how much the subs fee for Cursed Media was worth it for this series. Annie and Megan knocked it out the park, thank you both.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Book Christmas Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Early Bird Registration for the 2026 Shakespeare World Congress in Verona is now open! #wsc2026 Read about our seminar on our website: shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/r...
- Die Goethe-Uni in den 80ern: Es ist unmöglich, Barbara Klemms Fotoserie für die U-Bahn-Haltestelle Bockenheim nicht kennen und lieben gelernt zu haben, wenn man dort studiert hat. Jetzt gibt es endlich eine umfassende Recherche zu den Bildern! ❤️ fotos-bockenheimer-warte.de
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁tired: painstakingly trim 50 words, one at a time, until the whole thing is polished like a diamond wired: find one long sentence somewhere in the middle and just delete it
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁To be clear, it would be more understandable if reviewers routinely said this about double albums of Beethoven piano sonatas, or even recordings by an unaccompanied male group like the Orlando Consort. But they don’t. #EverydaySexism
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this. Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁And then I read this in a recent review of Musica Secreta: "... with the limited contrast of all female voices it’s probably best to be a bit selective rather than take this extensive programme in a single sitting." 2/5
- Good Evening! 🧚
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁What a beautiful description of the magic of studying the humanities.
- I don't know maybe I'm insane, but afaik we know by now that avoiding hallucinations where an llm is in the background is mathematically impossible. Which means any transcription would have to be double-checked by hand. Which in turn defeats the purpose of using a tool like that in the first place?
- I frankly also really have always enjoyed transcribing historical handwriting and music notation, and felt like students enjoyed learning it as well, especially when I've put them in groups and had them work on actual sources. Also imagine the amount of extra steps on a normal archive day. You'd
- have to photograph every page you come across and wait for an llm to process it and only then you can parse what's on the page and decide whether it's what you're looking for. I fail to see any benefit even in the long run vs. investing the time to learn to read old handwriting yourself.
- I guess if you had a huge corpus that was already scanned and available online in decent enough quality, you could run in through transkribus and do a full text search for keywords? But then again, I'd personally be too paranoid about missing something even then.
- 🎶it's the most wonderful time of the year🎶
- Mama take this badge from meeeee...
- There's still tickets left for our last ever concert with Winfried Toll today after 28(!) years.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Hörenswert: Unser Chef Prof. Dr. Klaus Pietschmann hat gestern mit dem #SWR über die morgen und übermorgen anstehende #Palestrina -Tagung in #Mainz gesprochen 👇 #Musikwissenschaft @unimainz-events.bsky.social
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Die Akademie des Bistums #Mainz, die Abteilung Musikwissenschaft der @unimainz.bsky.social, das Institut für Kirchenmusik im Bistum Mainz sowie Musica Sacra am Hohen Dom zu Mainz laden ein zur Tagung "Palestrina Gestern – Heute – Morgen" am 21. und 22. November 2025 👇
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁So close! abc7chicago.com/post/pope-le...
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁#OTD 1792: the #Mainz Nationaltheater performed for the final time. Founded in 1788, it quickly became one of the leading German #opera and #theatre companies and performed at the imperial coronations of 1790 and 1792. Its fate changed when the French Army captured the city in Oct 1792...1/7
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁The Dachverband der Studierenden der Musikwissenschaften (DVSM) is hosting its 6th Master's Speed Dating Musicology event: dvsm-verband.de/speeddating-...
- A. S. Byatt's "Possession. A Romance." I will never ever stop recommending it to anyone who does cultural history in any way. Shortest pitch I can give: it's a book about how, when we do history, people get in the way, both the living and the dead. And it's messy and beautiful and complicated.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Take LoTR. The reason evil exists in the books is because the creator is singing new creations into existence and Melkor wants to co-opt the song. It’s the reason Sauron’s armies are twisted forms of elves. The evil in LoTR CANNOT CREATE, they can go “this thing looks like this other thing”
- The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Dem 'Deutschen Kulturrat' hat mein Übersichtsbeitrag zu #RechtsRock bei miz.org so gut gefallen, dass sie ein 'best of' davon in der Zeitschrift 'Politik & Kultur' abgedruckt haben 👇
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Insurance company will want to know if the car reverse sensor sounded at least twice before the incident Two beep, or not two beep, that is the question
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Popkultur-Kunstgeschichte: Weil das Video zu #TaylorSwift's neuem Song offenbar von F. Heysers #Ophelia inspiriert wurde, kann das #MuseumWiesbaden sich derzeit nicht gerade über Besucherinnenmangel beklagen: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o... von @deborahcole.bsky.social via @theguardian.com
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Bruckner critical edition project
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Kofta kebab recipe in England c. 1660. Amazing find!
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Johann Sebastian Tach
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁READ WILD FAITH BY @swordsjew.bsky.social
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Belegt ist das hier "Paul von Joukowsky, [...] , habe Hasch später als [Wagners] Inspirationsquelle für Klingsors Zaubergarten genannt. Diesen Akt habe sich Wagner im Haschischrausch ausgedacht."
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁+++CFP DEADLINE+++ Do you have a research student whose work is in Shakespeare and Music? Let us know by *15 Sept* via the contact form on our website! We'd love to have them on our panel proposal for the 2026 BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference: www.rma.ac.uk/events/rma-r...
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁🪐✨CFP/REGISTRATION DEADLINE✨🪐 The deadline to register for our (and other's) seminar at the "Planetary Shakespeares" World Shakespeare Congress 2026 in Verona is September 15! Read our CfP and details about the registration process on our website 👇 shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/c...
- Idk do they?
- Good evening.
- Nobody: Every algorithm ever: oh, you listened to a single obscure Handel aria for work purposes? Have you heard of... Lascia ch'io pianga? No, check it out, I'm sure you'll love it. I have at least 5 different recordings here, trust me, it's great!
- Um. What do I do now? Guess I'll have to fill the void with the Mistborn series for the time being... (Brandon, please hurry :') )
- This is not good. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Seriously, fuck off. I say that with all due gravity.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁This guy killed Bach and Handel, and: “Prior to performing each surgical procedure, he would deliver a long, self-promoting speech in an unusual oratorial style.”
- Just finished Thomas Mann's Zauberberg for the first time and, yeah, okay, I get it now. Wow. Which, by the way: if your local library doesn't have a copy or it's constantly checked out like mine was, Thomas Mann will enter the public domain this coming January!
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁AI rebrands humanistic skills like writing, drawing, creativity, which have all been *thoroughly feminized,* as hard and macho, letting bros who fear nothing more than the whiff of femininity and feminization access creativity without the stench of girliness
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf und die Verfassung der Deutschen - Eine Rekonstruktion. Am 25. Juni um 18:42 verändert der Jurist Ekkehart Reimer laut „t-online“ gezielt den Wikipedia-Eintrag von Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf und fügt eine Passage zum Thema „Schwangerschaftsabbruch“ hinzu.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Nein. Faschistische Zensur ist keine "Wokeness von rechts". Ein Hagelsturm ist auch kein kristalliner Sonnenschein, ein Explosionsknall ist keine Stille mit hoher Amplitude, und Haarausfall ist keine Frisur.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵
- Buona sera 🐦
- Von der Sache mit der Vatikanflagge wollen wir jetzt gerade mal überhaupt nicht anfangen, aber ich würde sehr gern wissen, ob ihr bewusst ist, wessen Narrativ sie hier bedient. Es ist immer noch das rechtsnationale "Christentum" va in den USA, das diesen Verfolgungswahn ideologisch fest verbaut hat.
- Buona sera 🪄
- Some thoughts (in German) on what it means to be "the first" in musicology and a rediscovered dissertation on music aesthetics from 1821 – what started out as my BA thesis years ago is now a paper by Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann and me that you can read here 👇 biblioscout.net/article/99.1...
- Time to tap the sign in a hopeless sort of way www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/2...
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁to that giant of a pianist, Alfred Brendel, ruht wohl open.spotify.com/track/1o3AP6...
- I'm obviously very happy about the new Pope's name choice, but disappointed that yet another conclave has come and gone without the chosen one seizing what is objectively the best possible Pope name out there: Sixtus VI
- Haddock the Priest wishes you Happy Easter!
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁🗞️🗞️The next Shakespeare and Music Study Group newsletter is due to go out to members in May, which means you have until 15 April to email us any pieces of news, publications, projects, concerts, or anything else you'd like to have included!🗞️🗞️ shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com/contact-subs...
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻
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- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁THIS IS KLECKS! Pianist & composer Sofie Menter (1846–1918) with Klecks, one of her over 30 cats who lived near Munich. She has had a daughter with Franz Liszt! This was the reason for her divorce from cellist David Popper! Dr. Diemut Boehm figured this out & made an exhibition in 2018. #catcontent
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁The Shakespeare and Music Study Group mourns the passing of the great composer, theatre director and playwright Claire Van Kampen. Claire was an advisor and a great supporter. She gave a fascinating keynote at our inaugural conference, and appeared on our podcast series. We shall miss her dearly.
- I live-tweeted our panel at the Aberdeen BFE-RMA Research Student's Conference this morning! (And forgot to add the title of my own paper in the process: Mythologies of Emotion: Handel, Shakespeare, and the 19th century German National Project)
- Yours truly is not only presenting herself but will of course keep you posted during the panel on our account ⬇️
- Happy Holidays from the @royalmusical.bsky.social Shakespeare and Music Study Group! We thank you for your continued support and are excited for 2025, which will start out strong with our first ever panel at the BFE-RMA Research Student’s Conference in Aberdeen.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Happy Holidays from the @royalmusical.bsky.social Shakespeare and Music Study Group! We thank you for your continued support and are excited for 2025, which will start out strong with our first ever panel at the BFE-RMA Research Student’s Conference in Aberdeen.
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up
- Done with The Secret History and I think this one actually did do me some harm. In a bland sort of way. It was terribly bland and I can't recommend it.
- I'm definitely disappointed because I devoured "If We Were Villains" by M. L. Rio and loved it, and people kept telling me it was heavily inspired by "The Secret History" and I'd love that, too :/
- Buona sera 🧱
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁The thread we have all been waiting for.
- Find out who you trust implicitly: Musicologists, who would you show your Spotify wrapped to, out of your own free will and without feeling the need to explain yourselves?
- Reposted by Leonie Krempien 🦁Happy one-year online (not print) birthday to this scholarly self-defence, which I have not previously shared in public, and in which I reserve my musicological right to be both right and wrong. #earlymodern #nuntastic academic.oup.com/em/advance-a...
