Klemen Grabnar graduated in musicology at the University of Ljubljana in 2009. In the same year, he has been engaged at the Institute first as an expert associate, then as a young researcher to work on his PhD dissertation. In late 2015 he completed his PhD at the University of Ljubljana with a dissertation on parody or imitation masses in Hren choirbooks. Since 2016 he is a research fellow at the Institute of Musicology where his work is focused primarily on the liturgical music in Inner Austria in the second half of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He has wide-ranging interests in other periods of music history as well as other subject areas (see Research area, above), including the Digital Humanities (especially music encoding).
Klemen has made several study visits (e.g. Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance, Florence, Italy; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Austria; and Universitätsbibliothek Graz, Austria) and regularly presents his findings at international musicological conferences. Since 2019 he is a research mentor, supervising a PhD student.
He is a member of the Slovenian Musicological Society (2017–2021 member of the executive committee of the Society), International Musicological Society and American Musicological Society.
liturgical musical repertoire of the Slovenian Lands in the long sixteenth century, liturgical plainchant, music education to c. 1630, music and Catholic Reformation, migration of musical repertory, music manuscripts, polychorality, musical borrowing.
Three most relevant articles/chapters in the last 5 years (2019–2024):
- »Uglasbitev kantika magnifikat Simoneja Gatta na primeru skladbe Magnificat primi toni«. Muzikološki zbornik 59, nos. 1–2 (2023): 135–151. https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.59.1-2.135-151.
- »Jurij Slatkonja v slovenskem glasbenem zgodovinopisju«. In: Jurij Slatkonja (1456–1522): od Kranjske do Dunaja, edited by Lilijana Žnidaršič Golec in Metoda Kokole, 87–104. Odstiranja 9. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica; Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2023. https://omp.zrc-sazu.si/zalozba/catalog/view/2091/8573/2214.
- »Glasba v ljubljanski stolnici in gornjegrajski sostolnici v času škofa Tomaža Hrena«. In: Tridesetletna vojna in Slovenci: evropski konflikt in slovenski prostor v prvi polovici 17. stoletja, edited by Vanja Kočevar, 437–450. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2020. https://omp.zrc-sazu.si/zalozba/catalog/view/2057/8423/1941.
Three most relevant earlier articles/chapters:
- »Traces of Counter-Reformation music in the Slovenian lands«. Arti musices 49, no. 2 (2018): 303–317. https://dx.doi.org/10.21857/ygjwrcjkey
- »Pietro Antonio Bianco’s Missa Percussit Saul mille: A Precursor of the Habsburg Imperial musica politica of the Seventeenth Century«. De musica disserenda 13 (2017): 119–132. https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd13.1-2.05.
- »From Graz to Ljubljana? Towards Discovery of the Origin of the Hren Choirbooks«. De musica disserenda 11, nos. 1–2 (2015): 211–227. https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd11.1-2.13.
- Music migrations in the early modern age: the meeting of the European East, West and South (September 1, 2013 - August 31, 2016)
- Old traditions in new vestments: Musical and textual reworkings in the performing practices of liturgical music (fundamental research project • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2023)
- Researches in the History of Music in Slovenia (research programme • January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2021)
- Digital Presentation of the Long-Sixteenth-Century Church Music Connected to Carniola (fundamental research project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2024)
- Aesthetics behind the concert life of Ljubljana in the 19th century: 1794-1872 (fundamental research project • May 1, 2009 - April 30, 2012)
- ZRC SAZU Research Grant (2015: Odense, Denmark; Kassel, Germany; Florence, Italy)
- The Student Prešeren Award of Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana (2009)