Tom Wappler - Short vita and publications
Tom Wappler - Short vita and publications
Short vita
From 2007 to 2011, Tom Wappler studied for a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology, with a minor in English and American Studies, at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. For his final dissertation, he produced an edition, including a critical commentary, of the cantata *Wohl dem, des Hülfe der Gott Jakob ist* (TVWV 1:1709) by Georg Philipp Telemann, from the class of *Harmonisches Lob Gottes *.
In 2011, he transferred to the University of Oldenburg, where he completed his studies with a Master of Arts in Musicology. He wrote his Master’s thesis in the specialisation area ‘Cultural History of Music’ on the topic of ‘Intertextuality and/as musical-cultural practice’. Discussing and interpreting Erik Satie’s musical references in his piano compositions from 1913 to 1917. At the University of Oldenburg, he worked as a research assistant in the fields of cultural history of music and music and media. Among other things, he led the tutorials for “Introduction to Musicology” and “An Overview of Cultural History: Opera”.
Since the winter semester of 2014, Tom Wappler has been a research assistant in the field of cultural history of music at the Institute of Music, and since April 2015 an associate fellow in the DFG Research Training Group “Self-Formations – Practices of Subjectification” at the University of Oldenburg. For his doctoral thesis, he is examining practices of musical intertextuality in the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, drawing on cultural sociology and historical praxeology for his theoretical and methodological framework.
Tom Wappler is a member of the team of spokespersons for the ‘Perspectives for Young Researchers’ section of the Society for Music Research.
Publications
Monograph
forthcoming Editing and Using Music: A Music-Historical Praxeology Based on the Example of Vienna, 1870–1938, Bielefeld: transcript.
Editors
2025 Simone Hohmaier and Tom Wappler (eds.): Hoffmann the Contemporary, https://doi.org/10.71046/simjb.2022 (SIM Yearbook 2022).
Essays
2025 ‘Competition, Collegiality or Kindred Spirits. The “Two-Pianists” in German-language music criticism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries’, in: (Chosen) Affinities. Collective Cultural Action, edited by Maren Bagge, Christine Fornoff-Petrowski, Anna Ricke and Susanne Rode‑Breymann, Cologne: Böhlau (Music – Culture – Gender 21), pp. 45–58.
2020 Maria Behrendt, Daniel Siebert, Sebastian Bolz and Tom Wappler: ‘Teaching in Musicology. Food for thought and perspectives for discussion’, in: Music in Confrontation and Mediation. Contributions to the 2018 Annual Conference of the Society for Music Research in Osnabrück, edited by Dietrich Helms, Osnabrück: Electronic Publishing Osnabrück (Osnabrück Papers on Music History 1), pp. 351–366.
2018 ‘A Practical-Theoretical Outline of Musical Intertextuality in Viennese Opera at the End of the 18th Century’, in: ‘La cosa è scabrosa’. The ‘Figaro’ Event and Viennese Opera Practice in the Mozart Era, edited by Carola Bebermeier and Melanie Unseld, Vienna et al.: Böhlau (Music – Culture – Gender 16), pp. 83–106.
2016 ‘Remembering through and with Intertextuality. Erik Satie’s Musical References in the Piano Compositions of 1913’, in: Music as a Medium of Memory. Memory – History – Present, edited by Lena Nieper and Julian Schmitz, Bielefeld: transcript (Music and Sound Culture 17), pp. 113–133.
Encyclopaedia entries
2021 ‘Keyboard Instruments’, in: Encyclopaedia of the Modern Era Online, P.p. commissioned by the Institute for Cultural Studies (Essen) and in collaboration with the subject editors, edited by Friedrich Jaeger, © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung and Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2005–2012, https://doi.org/10.1163/2352-0248_edn_COM_408635.
Report
2025 ‘The Hymn from the Music Box. Development of an Audio Station’, in: Kursbuch MUSEALOG 2024 I & 2024 II, edited by Dirk Heisig, © MUSEALOG – The Museum Academy | Association for the Documentation, Indexing and Preservation of Historical Material Culture in the Weser-Ems Region, pp. 10–11.