Professor Bettina Varwig

Bettina Varwig is Professor of Music History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College. She grew up in Germany and studied at King’s College London and Harvard University. She is an expert on the music of J. S. Bach and his contemporaries, the history of the body and the emotions, and the history of musical listening and performance. She is author of Histories of Heinrich Schütz (Cambridge, 2011) and Music in the Flesh (Chicago, 2023), and editor of Rethinking Bach (Oxford, 2021). In 2025 she received the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association.