Nikolaus Urbanek

Studied musicology and philosophy at the University of Vienna; received his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 2008 with a dissertation in the philosophy of music on Adorno’s Beethoven fragments. From 2003 to 2009, he was a research assistant for the Critical Complete Edition of Arnold Schoenberg’s Writings (Vienna); from 2009 to 2010, research assistant for the Complete Works of Anton Webern (Basel); from 2010 to 2015, university assistant at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna; since 2015, professor of musicology; and since 2020, dean of academic studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Current areas of research: philosophy of music, music historiography, theory of musical notation.