Tom Wappler, M.A. - Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Tom Wappler works as an assistant in Department II: Music Theory and Music History at the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. In his dissertation, he deals with the praxeology of musical arrangements, examining their different uses in early 20th century Viennese music culture. At the Staatliche Institut, he is enganged in a research project on the relationship between interior design and domestic music-making in the early 20th century.

• since 2022
  Assistant in Department II: Music Theory and Music History at the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung PK
• 2019–2020 ­­­
  Research stays in Leuven and Hannover, funded by the Abroad Fellowship of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies | University of Art and Design Linz (Reseach Center located in Vienna)
• 2018–2019
  Junior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies | University of Art and Design Linz (Reseach Center located in Vienna)
• 2016–2021
  one of three spokespersons of the Young Researchers' group in the German Musicological Society
• 2015–2018
  Associate research fellow at the DFG-funded (German Research Foundation) research training group »Self-Making. Practices of Subjectivation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective«, University of Oldenburg
• 2014–2018
  Research assistant at the Department »Cultural History of Music«, Instituts of Music at the University of Oldenburg
• 2014
  Master of Arts (Musicology), University of Oldenburg
• 2012–2014
  Student assistant, Institute of Music at the University of Oldenburg
• 2011
  Bachelor of Arts (Musicology and British and American Studies), University of Halle-Wittenberg

• »Tasteninstrumente«, in: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online, im Auftrag des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts (Essen) und in Verbindung mit den Fachherausgebern, edited by Friedrich Jaeger, Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2005–2012, published online 2021.
• In collaboration with Maria Behrendt, Daniel Siebert, and Sebastian Bolz: »Lehre in der Musikwissenschaft. Denkanstöße und Diskussionsperspektiven«, in: Musik in Konfrontation und Vermittlung. Beiträge zurJahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 2018 in Osnabrück, edited by Dietrich Helms, Osnabrück 2020, pp. 351–366.
• »Praxistheoretischer Grundriss musikalischer Intertextualität in der Wiener Oper Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts«, in: »La cosa è scabrosa«. Das Ereignis »Figaro« und die Wiener Opernpraxis der Mozartzeit, edited by Carola Bebermeier and Melanie Unseld, Wien/Köln/Weimar 2018, pp. 83–106.
• »Mit und an Intertextualität erinnern. Erik Saties musikalische Verweise in den Klavierkompositionen 1913«, in: Musik als Medium der Erinnerung. Gedächtnis – Geschichte – Gegenwart, edited by Lena Nieper and Julian Schmitz, Bielefeld 2016, pp. 113–133.

• Cultural history of music
• Praxeology in music history research
• Intertextuality research
• Music history of the late 19th and early 20th century