Janina Klassen

Janina Klassen (born in 1953) is a German musicologist and professor emerita at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.

Life and career Born in Bad Salzuflen, Klassen studied musicology, German studies, philosophy and Italian in Freiburg im Breisgau, Vienna, Paris, Siena and Kiel. She first worked at Christians Verlag in Hamburg and as a lecturer for music theory. The topic of her habilitation at the Technische Universität Berlin was rhetorical figures in music in the context of writings from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

From 1999 to 2022 she has been professor of musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and a member of the Senate there. She has published articles on current music and music concepts, music-historical topics, music language theory, listening theories, and gender issues.