Sabine KURTH studied Musicology, music education and German literature in Munich. In 1994, she received her PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a dissertation on Beethoven’s string quintets. From 1996 to 1998 she attended the “Referendariat”, a qualifying course for scholarly librarianship. Then she took up employment at the Music department of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek with a cataloguing project comprising the historical scores from the Munich “Nationaltheater”. Further projects – funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – comprise “Music prints of the 16th and 17th centuries and the Historical Publisher’s Archive B. Schott’s Söhne, Mainz” and the “Fachinformationsdienst Musikwissenschaft”. She is reference librarian for acquisitions in the Music department.
