Scholarly Work

A work which I analyzed with more attention during my studies is the Requiem by Johannes Ockeghem (ca. 1410/1425 - 1497). We do not know exactly when this work was composed, probably in either 1461 or 1483, what is certain, however, is the fact that it is the oldest extant polyphonic composition of the mass for the dead. As its creation dates earlier than the Council of Trient, the succession of texts follows the then usual way of the French-English-Dutch liturgical communities and congregations.
The following parts were set to music by the composer:

Introitus "Requiem aeternam" (4 Esr. 2,34f.; Ps 65, 2f.)
Kyrie
Graduale "Si ambulem" (Ps 23,4)
Tractus "Sicut cervus desiderat" (Ps 42, 2-4)
Offertorium "Domine Jesu Christe"

I wrote two differing seminar papers on this work, one of which tackles questions of performance practice whereas the contents of the other is an analysis of the Tractus. (Here you can find a bibliography on both topics.)
I was very glad to be able to sing the Tractus on the Multinational Chamber Choir myself. In the season of 2002/03 I performed this piece of music as a director with the vocal ensemble "Mosaik".

A further seminar paper in liturgics deals with the liturgical service of the congregation in the celebration of the Eucharist. For this topic I offer a bibliography as well.

My thesis which I worked upon in the winter term 2004/05 in order to end my studies in organ, was written under the supervision Professor DDr. Rupert Gottfried Frieberger. Its topic and title is "Die Beteiligung der Orgel am Repertoire der geistlichen Vokalpolyphonie des 16. Jahrhunderts". (For information I provide here its table of contents (in German!) and the corresponding bibliography.)

Additionally, I am currently also occupied with music of the 16th century in the course of my organ studies in Amsterdam. My scientific project is the creation of an edition (transcription into modern notation, plus creation of scientific accompanying texts) of the earliest known manuscript notated in New German Organ Tablature. It comprises mostly intavolations (of works by Josquin, de la Rue, Verdelot, Senfl and Sermisy) and is being held in Kärntner Landesarchiv in Klagenfurt (GV-HS 4/3).

A further field of my musicological work is connected to composition for liturgy after the Second Vatican Concile. Already during my studies I worked on this topic in the course of a seminar and the related paper I gave therein, and in July 2007 I was invited to give a talk at the 18th Congress of the International Musicological Society in Zürich. The title of my talk was "Liturgische Komposition in Wien im Licht der Liturgiekonstitution Sacrosanctum Concilium und ihren Folgedokumenten".

I am very interested in scientific exchange and topical discussion and would gladly receive your email at my personal address.

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