Lorraine Byrne Bodley is Professor of Musicology at Maynooth University. She holds a double doctorate in Music and in German from University College Dublin (2000), and is the first woman in Ireland to be conferred with a DMUS in Musicology, a higher doctorate on published work (NUI, 2012).  

Lorraine Byrne Bodley is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Schubert, on Goethe and Music, on which she has lectured and published prolifically. She has given over 150 international guest lectures and keynote addresses (in German and in English) in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Russia, Scotland, UK, USA.  She has published 15 books. Her most recent publication, which she considers her magnum opus, Schubert. A Musical Wayfarer, is a major new biography on Schubert which was commissioned by Yale University Press and published in July 2023.

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