Martin Eybl
Martin Eybl is an Austrian musicologist.
Early life and education
Martin Eybl was born on December 7, 1960 in :de:Neumarkt im Hausruckkreis|Neumarkt im Hausruckkreis, a town in the province of Upper Austria, and was educated at the Gymnasium in Kremsmünster where he graduated in 1979. Thereafter, he studied at the in Linz and in 1984, majored there in Piano Performance. At the same time, he studied composition at the , as well as musicology at the , from where he graduated in 1988 and 1995.Professional activities and career
Martin Eybl has taught lectures and courses at the University of Vienna from 1991 until 2004, and has been teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 1994.From 1994 until 2006, he held a course about Schenkerian analysis. In 1996, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Since 2000, he is on the editorial board of Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich, becoming editor-in-chief in 2007.
Martin Eybl obtained his habilitation in music theory in 2004, and since that time holds an academic chair for music history at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. From 2007 to 2009, he served as a member of the university's academic senate.
Research interests and activities
Martin Eybl's main research focus lies on the aesthetics and theory of early 20th century music, as well as on music in Austria during the 18th century and on the edition of pre-classical music. He was involved in several peer-reviewed research projects, among which- Instrumental ensemble music in the wake of Vienna 1730-1760, 1993-1995;
- Modernity in Vienna and Central Europe around 1900, 1994–2002;
- Changes in musical taste around 1760. The solo concerto in Maria Theresia's Vienna, 2002–2003.
- The diaries of Heinrich Schenker 1918–1925: commented edition.
Major publications 1992-2010
Books
- Ideology and method. Schenker's theory of music in the context of the history of ideas.. Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft 32. Tutzing 1995.
- The emancipation of the instant. Schoenberg's scandalizing concerts 1907 and 1908. A documentation. Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte 4. Wien 2004.
- Schenkerian traditions. A Viennese school of music theory and its international dissemination, Martin Eybl and Evelyn Fink-Mennel. Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte 6. Wien 2006.
- Celebrations: On occasion of the 70th birthday of Theophil Antonicek, Martin Eybl, Stefan Jena, Andreas Vejvar, Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 56. Tutzing 2010.
Musical Editions
- Pieter Maessins, Complete Works. Published by Othmar Wessely und Martin Eybl. Graz 1995.
- Johann Joseph Fux, Trio sonatas. Complete Works, Ser. VI, Vol.. 4. Graz 2000.
- Johann Joseph Fux, Trio sonatas. Complete Works, Ser. VI, Vol. 5. Graz 2009.
Scholarly Articles
Music in 18th-century Austria
- Nightingale, quail, cuckoo, Adler and Fux. Remarks on the stylistic change in the 18th century on the basis of the recovered Leipzig overture. In Rudolf Flotzinger, J. J. Fux-Symposium Graz ’91. Proceedings, pp. 63–83. Graz 1992.
- Two weddings at the Vienna court 1744 and 1760. Self-conception, representation, and audience of the courtiers during the enlightenment process. In: Martin Eybl, Stefan Jena, Andreas Vejvar, Feste. Theophil Antonicek zum 70. Geburtstag, pp. 153–170. Tutzing 2010.
- The secularization of devotion. Perception of music between emancipation and disciplining. In: Franz M. Eybl, Strukturwandel kultureller Praxis. Beiträge zu einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Sicht des theresianischen Zeitalters, pp. 71–93. Wien 2002.
- Early sources of concert symphonies in Kremsmünster 1762–1769. Music in the evolution of public sphere in the wake of Vienna In: Miscellanea Musicae., pp. 93–113. Wien 1999.
- Franz Bernhard Ritter von Keeß – Collector, patron and promoter. Vienna's musical life in the spirit of enlightenment In: Elisabeth Theresia Hilscher, Österreichische Musik – Musik in Österreich. Beiträge zur Musikgeschichte Mitteleuropas., pp. 239–250. Tutzing 1998.
- Mozart's earliest concerto movement. The Pasticcio concertos K. 37, 39, 40 and 41 in context of contemporary Vienna. In: Joachim Brügge et al., Musikgeschichte als Verstehensgeschichte,. Tutzing 2004.
- The Kremsier copies of W.A.Mozart's piano concertos. In: Manfred Hermann Schmid, Mozart-Studien 17, pp. 215–238. Tutzing 2008.
From [Richard Wagner] to modern music
- Menacing innovation. Conservative views of music history in Vienna around 1900. In: Gerhard Anselm, Musikwissenschaft – eine verspätete Disziplin? Die akademische Musikforschung in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts zwischen Fortschrittsglauben und Modernitätsverweigerung, pp. 119–127. Stuttgart 2000.
- Schoenberg's frightening innovations. Assumptions on a paradigm shift in aesthetics . In: Petr Macek, Mikuláš Bek, Horror novitatis, pp. 111–116. Praha 2004.
- Schopenhauer, Freud, and the concept of deep structure in music. In: Martin Eybl, Evelyn Fink-Mennel, Schenker-Traditionen. Eine Wiener Schule der Musiktheorie und ihre internationale Verbreitung/A Viennese school of music theory and its international dissemination,. ienna 2006.
- Expressivity versus adherence to the text. Seven observations on Heinrich Schenker's performance indications. In: Markus Grassl, Reinhard Kapp, Die Lehre von der musikalischen Aufführung in der Wiener Schule. Verhandlungen des Internationalen Colloquiums Wien 1995,. Vienna 2002.
Analysis and theory of music
- "Tota pulchra es" by Pieter Maessins. Purpose and notion of canon around 1550 In: Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 42, S. 34–52.
- Tonal music as a cross-linked patchwork. A catalog of attributes of harmonic tonality. In: Ariane Jeßulat, Andreas Ickstadt, Martin Ullrich, Zwischen Komposition und Hermeneutik, pp. 54–66.Würzburg 2005.
- Purpose and historical preconditions of Heinrich Schenker's analytics. In: Gernot Gruber, Zur Geschichte der musikalischen Analyse, pp. 145–156. Laaber 1996.
- Archaeology of musical art: Heinrich Schenker's analyses of works by Mozart. In: Gernot Gruber, Siegfried Mauser, Mozartanalyse im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert, pp. 133–145. Laaber 1999.
- Grandiose cells of isolation and rattling fugue mechanism – Schenker's critique of his teacher Bruckner. In: Othmar Wessely, Bruckner-Symposion Linz 1988, Proceedings, pp. 137–145. Linz 1992.
- Exploring the perception of Magnus Lindberg's kinetics. An analytical dialogue . In: Tomi Mäkelä, Topics. Texts. Tensions. Essays in Music Theory on Paavo Heininen, Joonas Kokkonen, Magnus Lindberg, Usko Meriläinen, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Kaija Saariaho & Aulis Sallinen, pp. 64–84. Magdeburg 1999.