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.