User:Matthias Röder

About me

I'm a musicologist at Harvard University where I'm working on my PhD entitled "Music, Politics, and the Public Sphere: Berlin from the late 18th to the early 19th centuries." My research interests include:

• Music and Commerce
• Music in German speaking lands around 1800
• Radio and Music
• Music and Politics
• 15th-century chansons
• Music during World War II
• Music and Computers
• German music after 1945
• Ambrosian Chant

I have curated an exhibition on "The Century of Bach and Mozart" at Houghton Library at Harvard University in 2005. A more recent project is SCRIBE, a database of music copyists and a program that enables similarity searches of music handwriting.

Before coming to Harvard in 2002 I studied classical guitar with Eliot Fisk at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Publications

• Review, "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasie und Sonate c-Moll, die Originalhandschrift an Mozarts Clavier interaktiv zum Klingen gebracht (Fantasy and Sonata in C Minor, Interactive Recording from the Autograph on Mozart's own Fortepiano)", in: Notes 63, no. 2 (2006): 395-98.

• CD-Booklet: "Bach's Suites for Violoncello", in: Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites for Violoncello (Ivan Manchinelli). Bologna: Bongiovanni, 2006.

• Catalog of an exhibition in Houghton Library. In: The Century of Bach and Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Composition, Theory & Performance. Harvard College Library Exhibitions on the Occasion of a Conference dedicated to Professor Christoph Wolff. Cambridge, 2005.

• Review, "Manfred Hermann Schmid (ed.): Mozart Studien. Band 13", in: Mozart Jahrbuch 2005: 327-29.

• Review, "Maria Bieler: Binärer Satz, Sonate, Konzert", in: Mozart Jahrbuch 2003/4: 278-79.

Articles I'm working on

• Music in Berlin
• Johann Sebastian Bach

Miscellaneous

• My blog on music at http://www.zeitschichten.com.