Alexander Rausch (born in 1971) is an Austrian

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

Life

Born in Vienna, Rausch studied

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

and Romanistic at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

from 1989 to 1996. In 1994 he completed an Erasmus Programme semester abroad at the

Bavarian Academy of Sciences The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledg ...

in Munich. From 1995 to 2000 he was active in two

Austrian Science Fund The Austrian Science Fund (german: Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, FWF) is the most important Austrian funding organization for basic research. The FWF supports research in science, engineering, and the humanities through a ...

projects on the music theoretical sources of the Middle Ages in Austria. In 1997 he was awarded a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

Walter Pass Walter Pass (22 January 1942 – 7 March 2001) was an Austrian musicologist. Born in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Pass studied music education, conducting, piano and singing (1960–1964) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. One year ...

at the University of Vienna with a thesis on "The musical treatises of the abbot

Berno of Reichenau __NOTOC__ Berno (c. 978 – 7 June 1048) was the Abbot of Reichenau from his appointment by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1008. He reformed the Gregorian chant. He compiled a ''tonarius'', dealing with the organisation of the church chants into ...

". Since 2003 he has been working at the Department of Musicology of the Institute for Art and Music Historical Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. From 2003 to 2006 he contributed to the ''

Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon The ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon'Oesterreichisch'' with ''Oe'' is the spelling of the print and online output. is a five-volume music encyclopedia founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Commission for Music Research. It was officiall ...

''. From 2007 to 2015 he was involved in the project "Music - Identity - Space". From 2008 to 2015 he was the scientific director of two FWF projects on medieval music manuscripts at the

Austrian National Library The Austrian National Library (german: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) is the largest library in Austria, with more than 12 million items in its various collections. The library is located in the Neue Burg Wing of the Hofburg in center of V ...

in Vienna. In 2015 he took over the leadership of the ÖAW working group "Complete editions, editions and source documentation". His main research interests are

medieval music Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and followed by the Renaissance ...

, the early modern period musical representation and the composer and music theorist

Johann Joseph Fux Johann Joseph Fux (; – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theory, music theorist and pedagogy, pedagogue of the late Baroque music, Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoin ...

. Rausch is a member of the

Gesellschaft für Musikforschung The ''Gesellschaft für Musikforschung'' (GfM) is a professional association of musicologists and institutes active in study, research and teaching in Germany. It has over 1600 members. The association is based in Kassel, Hesse. History The soc ...

, the , the , der and the .

Publications

* ''Opusculum de musica ex traditione Iohannis Hollandrini''. Institute Of Mediaeval Music, Ottawa 1997, (''Musical Theorists in Translation''. Vol. 15). * ''Die Musiktraktate des Abtes Bern von Reichenau: Edition und Interpretation''. Schneider, Tutzing 1999, (''Musica mediaevalis Europae occidentalis''. Vol. 5). * ''Das spätmittelalterliche Choraltraktat aus der Kartause Gaming (Niederösterreich): Einführung und Edition''. Schneider,

Tutzing Tutzing is a municipality in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany, on the west bank of the Starnberger See. Just 40 km south-west of Munich and with good views of the Alps, the town was traditionally a favorite vacation spot for th ...

2008, (''Musica mediaevalis Europae occidentalis''. Vol. 9). * Collaboration: Robert Klugseder: ''Ausgewählte mittelalterliche Musikfragmente der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien''. Hollinek, Purkersdorf 2011 (''Codices manuscripti''. Supplementum 5) * Edited with Björn R. Tammen: ''Musikalische Repertoires in Zentraleuropa (1420–1450): Prozesse & Praktiken''. Böhlau, Vienna among others, 2014, (''Wiener musikwissenschaftliche Beiträge''. vol. 26). * ''Giunone placata Fux WV II.2.19 (K 316): Johann Joseph Fux – Dramatische Werke''.Giunone placata Fux WV II.2.19 (K 316)
on Google Books Published by the Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen an der ÖAW, Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, Vienna 2018, .

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Alexander Rausch
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