Alexander Rausch (born in 1971) is an Austrian

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

Life

Born in Vienna, Rausch studied

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

and Romanistic at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

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 () is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledge within their subject. The general goal of th ...

in Munich. From 1995 to 2000 he was active in two Austrian Science Fund projects on the music theoretical sources of the Middle Ages in Austria. In 1997 he was awarded a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

by Walter Pass at the University of Vienna with a thesis on "The musical treatises of the abbot Berno of Reichenau". Since 2003 he has been working at the Department of Musicology of the Institute for Art and Music Historical Research of the

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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 offic ...

''. 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 (, ) is the largest library in Austria, with more than 12 million items in its various collections. The library is located in the Hofburg#Neue Burg, Neue Burg Wing of the Hofburg in Innere Stadt, center of Vienna. Sin ...

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 music, sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the Dates of classical music eras, first and longest major era of Western class ...

, the

early modern period The early modern period is a Periodization, historical period that is defined either as part of or as immediately preceding the modern period, with divisions based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity. There i ...

musical representation and the composer and music theorist

Johann Joseph Fux Johann Joseph Fux (; – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoint, '' Gradus ad Parnassum'', which ha ...

. Rausch is a member of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, 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 Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Starnberg (district), 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 wa ...

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, .

References

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