John Gabriel is Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in Melbourne, Australia. He researches the music of German- and Czech-speaking Central Europe from the fin-de-siècle to the early Cold War.

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While in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, John began work on a book on the music theater of the New Objectivity in Weimar Republic Germany, published two peer-reviewed articles (with two more under review) and a number of shorter pieces, and presented papers at twelve conferences. With other members of the Society, he co-organized and co-chaired the roundtable “The Humanities Book Today and in the Future” in February 2018 and co-organized the conference “Contacts, Collisions, Conjunctions” in May 2018. He also taught Music 2082: Music in Western Culture II, “Modernism(s) and After,” in the HKU Music Department.