Inga Mai Groote studied musicology, history and Italian philology at the University of Bonn. She has been Assistant Professor at the Institut fur Musikwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtat, Munich (2005 2010), where she directed a research project on transdisciplinary influences in sixteenth-century writings on music ('Humanistische Theorie der Musik im Wissenschaftssystem ihrer Zeit', 2008 11). Since 2010 she has taught musicology at the University of Zurich. She is the author of Musik in italienischen Akademien, Studien zur institutionellen Musikpflege, 1543 1666 (2007); her habilitati...