Tom Wappler, M.A.

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

CV

  • 2022–2024
    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

Publications

Research interests

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