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Early life and education

Martin Eybl is an Austrian musicologist. He was born 1960 in Neumarkt im Hausruckkreis, a town in the province of Upper Austria, and was educated at the Gymnasium in Kremsmünster where he finished his school studies 1979. Thereafter he studied at the Anton Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and majored 1984 there in Piano Performance (class of Horst Matthaeus). Also, he studied in parallel Composition (German: Tonsatz) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, as well as Musicology at the University of Vienna, where he graduated as a Master of Philosophy 1988, and as a Doctor of Philosophy 1995.

Professional activities and career

Martin Eybl offered lectures and courses from 1991 until 2004 at the University of Vienna, and since 1994 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (until 2004 in the fields of Schenkerian analysis and history of music theory).

In the years 1994 through 2006 he was director of the Schenkerian Analysis Course (German: Lehrgang für Tonsatz nach Heinrich Schenker). In 1996 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University, Cambridge MA. Since 2000 he is member of the editorial board of Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich (DTÖ – German for Monuments of Musical Art in Austria), where he also acts since 2007 (jointly with Theophil Antonicek) as an Editor-in-Chief.

Martin Eybl obtained his Habilitation 2004 in Music Theory, and since then holds a chair for music history at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In the period of 2007–2009 he served as a member of the senate of this university.

Research interests and activities

Martin Eybl’s main research focus is on aesthetics and theory of music of the early 20th century, as well as on music in Austria in the 18th century, and on the edition of pre-classic music.He was involved in several peer-reviewed research projects; the most important are

• Instrumental ensemble music in the wake of Vienna 1730-1760, 1993-1995;
• Modernity in Vienna and Central Europe around 1900, 1994–2002;
• Changes in musical taste around 1760. The solo concerto in Maria Theresia’s Vienna, 2002–2003.

2007–2010 he acted as the principal investigator of the project

• The diaries of Heinrich Schenker 1918–1925: commented edition.

Major publications 1992-2010

Books

• Ideology and method. Schenker’s theory of music in the context of the history of ideas. (German: Ideologie und Methode. Zum ideengeschichtlichen Kontext von Schenkers Musiktheorie; Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft 32). Tutzing 1995 (Ph.D. thesis, Vienna).

• The emancipation of the instant. Schoenberg’s scandalizing concerts 1907 and 1908. A documentation (German: Die Befreiung des Augenblicks: Schönbergs Skandalkonzerte von 1907 und 1908. Eine Doku¬men¬tation). Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte 4. Wien 2004.

• Schenkerian traditions. A Viennese school of music theory and its international dissemination (English/German: Schenker-Traditionen. Eine Wiener Schule der Musiktheorie und ihre internationale Verbreitung), Martin Eybl and Evelyn Fink-Mennel (eds.). Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte 6. Wien 2006.

• Celebrations: On occasion of the 70th birthday of Theophil Antonicek (German: Feste. Theophil Antonicek zum 70. Geburtstag), Martin Eybl, Stefan Jena, Andreas Vejvar (eds.), Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 56. Tutzing 2010.

2. Musical Editions

• Pieter Maessins, Complete Works (German: Sämtliche Werke). Published by Othmar Wessely und Martin Eybl (DTÖ 149). Graz 1995.

• Johann Joseph Fux, Trio sonatas. Complete Works (German: Sämtliche Werke), Ser. VI, Vol.. 4. Graz 2000.

• Johann Joseph Fux, Trio sonatas. Complete Works (German: Sämtliche Werke), Ser. VI, Vol. 5. Graz 2009.