A) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Harvard University
Post-Doc, Lecturer and Harvard College Fellow (2009–present)
• Research on Beethoven’s Creative Process, the Public Sphere for Music, and Digital Musicology
• Taught graduate and undergraduate seminars as well as lecture courses
• Supervized student in independent study course
Packard Humanities Institute. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Complete Works Edition.
Researcher, 200 7–2008
• Analyzed autograph source materials of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
• Conducted source-related research in Berlin.
New Mozart Edition Salzburg, Austria
Researcher, 2001–2004
• Conceived database project of first editions of Mozart prints
Bach-Archiv Leizpig, Germany
Internship, 2001
• Developed system for computer-assisted scribe identification
• Consulted on digial library catalogue
B) TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Harvard University
Lecturer on Music and Harvard College Fellow (2009–present)
• Music in the Public Sphere (Graduate Seminar)
• Eighteenth-Century Opera (Proseminar)
• History of Western Music from the Classical Period to the Present (Sophomore Tutorial)
• String Quartets from Haydn to Beethoven: Analysis and Source Studies (Proseminar)
• The Renaissance of Ancient Music (Graduate Seminar team-taught with Christoph Wolff)
Harvard University
Head Teaching Fellow (2004–2008)
• Introduction to Western Music from Beethoven to the Present (Sean Gallagher)
• First Nights. Five Musical Premieres (Thomas F. Kelly)
• Opera (Anne C. Shreffler)
Music School Rheinbach and Music School Euskirchen
Music teacher (Classical Guitar)
• Taught students in one-to-one lessons and in small groups
• Devised special curriculum for a handicapped student with deformations on both hands
Past
“The Permutation Fugue and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Compositional Development”
14th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Queens University Belfast, July 2010
Powerpoint presentation available at http://matthias.zeitschichten.com/belfast
“SCRIBE: Datenbank und Digitale Werkzeuge zur Identifizierung von Musikkopisten”
Conference Das Instrumentalmusikrepertoire der Dresdner Hofkapelle in den ersten beiden Dritteln des 18. Jahrhunderts. Überlieferung und Kopisten, University of Dresden, Germany, June 2010
More information at http://www.scribeproject.org
“The Two Finales of Op. 130: An Old Problem Revisited.”
Symposium Performing Beethoven String Quartets, Harvard University. February 12, 2010
“Between Representation, Entertainment, and Music Cultivation: Public Concerts in the Hotel Stadt Paris in Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). March 18-21, 2010 Read the full post
“Milanese Chant in the Monastery? Notes on a Reunited Ambrosian Manuscript,” in: Ambrosiana at Houghton Library (=Houghton Library Studies, vol. 3). Cambridge, 2009 (forthcoming). Co-authored.
„Berliner Musikgeschmack um 1800 im Spiegel von Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstabs Musikalienkatalogen,“ in: Urbane Musikkultur von der Spätfriderizianischen Zeit bis ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert. (=Reihe Berliner Klassik. Eine Großstadtkultur um 1800, vol. 12). Berlin, 2009 (forthcoming).
Fromm Players at Harvard. 60 Years of Electronic Music. Cambridge, 2008. Program notes for a series of four concerts.
Review, ‘Manfred Hermann Schmid: Mozart in Salzburg: Ein Ort für sein Talent. Salzburg: Pustet, 2006,’ in: Mozart-Jahrbuch 2007 (forthcoming).
Review, ‘Jessica Waldoff: Recognition in Mozart’s Operas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006,’ in: Mozart-Jahrbuch 2007 (forthcoming).
Review, ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasie und Sonate c-Moll, die Originalhandschrift an Mozarts Clavier interaktiv zum Klingen gebracht (Fantasy and Sonata in C Minor, Interactive Recording from the Autograph on Mozart’s own Fortepiano)’, in: Notes 63, no. 2 (2006): 395-98. Read the full post
Zeitschichten.com — A Web Magazine on Music and History. I founded this magazine in 2006 and currently serve as its principal editor.
The SCRIBE Project — A collaborative research project that focuses on computer-aided scribe identification in music manuscripts. To participate, please email me at roeder@fas.harvard.edu.
Matthias Röder is a Post-Doc and Lecturer on music at Harvard University where he has just finished his PhD thesis on “Music, Politics, and the Public Sphere in Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin.” His main research interests include social history of music, digital musicology, as well as the creative process of Ludwig van Beethoven. He has published his research in the US, Germany, and Austria and has appeared frequently as a conference speaker and guest lecturer. Matthias is the founder and editor of Zeitschichten.com, a web magazine on music and history, where he writes on contemporary music, the future of the classical music industry, and the art of listening to music. Before coming to Harvard in 2002, Matthias studied music at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
In addition to his academic and scholarly projects, Matthias is also active as an artistic advisor and music manager for several New Music projects in the United States, Turkey, Germany, and Austria for which he produced CD recordings, concerts, video, and educational events.
“The Permutation Fugue and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Compositional Development”
Paper held at the
The 14th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music
Queens University Belfast, July 1, 2010
PowerPoint Presentation available here:
Biennial Baroque Conference – Presentation Version 2
In 2001, while I was an intern at the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig I developed a prototype of a Scribe Database which holds information about scribes and copyists of Bach manuscripts. Read the full post
In March 2010 I will participate in a panel at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) on The “Wirtshaus”. Comparative perspectives on the hotel in the Eighteenth Century.
