Matteo Nanni

Matteo Nanni is a professor at the Institute for Historical Musicology at the University of Hamburg. He earned his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau with a dissertation on Luigi Nono and Theodor W. Adorno and completed his habilitation with a thesis on the music and music theory of the late Italian Middle Ages. After serving as an assistant professor in Basel, where he was co-director of the research modules “Notation and Handwriting” and “Music—Gesture—Image” at the NFS-Bildkritik, he became a professor of historical musicology at the University of Giessen in 2015. He was involved in the collaborative project “Writing Music” (Innsbruck, Vienna, and Basel) and is now a member of the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts” as the spokesperson for the research field “Archiving Artefacts” and leads the project “Archiving Colonialism: The Collections of Musical Manuscripts from Peru.”