Michael Maul

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Michael Maul (born February 15, 1978 in Leipzig ) is a German musicologist and author .

Life

Maul studied musicology, journalism and business administration in Leipzig from 1997 to 2002 . At the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg im Breisgau he received his doctorate in 2006 with his work Barockoper in Leipzig (1693–1720) , which was awarded the 2007 Gerhart Baumann Prize for interdisciplinary literary studies. In 2013 he completed his habilitation at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with a thesis on the history of the Leipzig Thomaskantorat, which was awarded the Humanities International Prize in 2015 by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and the Foreign Office for the promotion of the translation of works in the humanities .

Bach's copy of Reincken's On Water Rivers Babylon

Maul has been a research assistant at the Leipzig Bach Archive since 2002 . Here he dedicates himself to the systematic scientific indexing of archives in Central Germany and Eastern Europe. This work resulted in various publications and - in some cases spectacular - discoveries: In 2001, Maul came across the oldest surviving German-language opera in Vilnius / Lithuania ( Johann Sebastiani : Pastorello musicale , Königsberg 1663; published by Maul 2004, first performance at the Leipzig Bach Festival 2017). He identified the arias for a hitherto unknown opera by Georg Philipp Telemann ( Germanicus , Leipzig 1704/10; reconstructed version by Maul first performed at the Leipzig Bach Festival in 2007; staged at the Osnabrück Opera House in 2015).

Maul became internationally known in 2005 through the discovery of the aria Alles mit Gott und nothing without 'him BWV 1127 by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar; this was the first discovery of an unknown Bach vocal work in over 70 years. In 2006, Maul, also in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, came across the previously unknown earliest surviving musical manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach, the so-called Weimar organ tablature with copies of the choral fantasies Now rejoice, dear Christians by Dieterich Buxtehude BuxWV 210 and An Wasserflüssen Babylon by Johann Adam Reincken .

Maul is a private lecturer in musicology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and lecturer in musicology at the University of Leipzig and the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig . In 2014/15 he was visiting professor at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and in 2015 he was a deputy professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster.

Maul is a regular author of radio broadcasts for Deutschlandfunk Kultur. He is a member of the board of the New Bach Society and the Presidium of Central German Baroque Music in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia eV (MBM).

Maul has been the dramaturge of the Leipzig Bach Festival since 2015, and has been director of this festival since May 2018.

Publications

  • 2001: Music and music maintenance in Leipzig after the Thirty Years War (1645–1660) . Unprinted master's thesis, Leipzig.
  • 2005: Johann Sebastian Bach: Aria Everything with God and nothing without him . Facsimile (Documenta Musicologica). Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel, ISBN 978-3-7618-1870-1 and 3-7618-1870-X.
  • 2007: Weimar organ tablature: the earliest musical manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as copies by his pupil Johann Martin Schubart. Facsimile and transmission (Documenta Musicologica) . Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel, ISBN 978-3-7618-1957-9 .

Books

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Maul in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
  2. ↑ In the dusty skirt. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 29, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Maul, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig