Project leader and applicant: Univ.Prof. Dr. Andreas Dorschel
Head, Institute of Music Aesthetics
University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
Leonhardstr. 15/EG
A-8010 Graz
Austria/Europe
Phone: +43 316 3893725
Email: andreas.dorschel@kug.ac.at
https://www.kug.ac.at/personendetailseite-studien/persondetail/drphil-andreas-dorschel-ma/
https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Dorschel_Andreas
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3800-9142
https://www.mgg-online.com/article?id=mgg20084&v=2.0&rs=mgg20084
https://musikaesthetik.kug.ac.at/

Andreas Dorschel, Head of the Institute of Music Aesthetics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 2002, holds an MA degree in both philosophy and musicology, a Dr. phil in philosophy, and gained his Habilitation at the University of Berne (Switzerland). His scholarly horizon encompasses the transdisciplinary width of the project Apart from six monographs and eight edited volumes, Dorschel’s writings currently include above 70 journal articles in the fields of Musicology, Philosophy (Aesthetics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind) and Historical Studies – a main thread being categories regarding human existence such as feelings, emotions, rationality, physicality, memory, prejudice, and interpretation (hermeneutics).His 25 years of tertiary teaching include universities in Germany (Goethe University Frankfurt/M.; Philipps University Marburg), England (University of East Anglia), Switzerland (University of Bern), the US (Emory and Stanford) and Austria (University of the Arts Graz and University of Vienna). In 2002 he became Professor and Head of the Graz Institute of Music Aesthetics. Important logical steps in Dorschel’s thought and research leading to the present basic research proposal were: reflections on the hermeneutics of artworks (2005), music and memory (2007), music and pain (2008; 2011), music historiography (2008), the listening experience (2009), methodology in the history of ideas (2010), counterpoint (2010), on the notions of form (2011) and order (2012), of imagination (2015) and play (2018), as well as on biographism in the study of art (2018, 2019). Dorschel received the Styria Research Award (2011) and the Caroline Schlegel Award (2014).Since 2019, he has been a member of Academia Europaea. He has been Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies Berlin in 2020/21.

Project-related publications
(1) A. Dorschel, ‘Utopie und Resignation. Schuberts Deutungen des Sehnsuchtsliedes aus Goethes ‘Wilhelm Meister’ von 1826’, Oxford German Studies XXVI (1997), 132–64.
(2) A. Dorschel, ‘The Paradox of Opera’, The Cambridge Quarterly XXX(4) (2001), 283–306.
(3) A. Dorschel, Verwandlung. Mythologische Ansichten, technologische Absichten (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009) (Neue Studien zur Philosophie, eds. Konrad Cramer, Jürgen Stolzenberg & Reiner Wiehl, 22), 199 pp.
(4) A. Dorschel, Ideengeschichte (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010), 216 pp.
(5) A. Dorschel, ‘Ort und Raum’, Saeculum. Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte 61(1) (2011), 1–15.
(6) A. Dorschel, ‘Music and Pain’, in The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music, ed. Jane Fulcher (Oxford/New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011), 68–79.
(7) A. Dorschel, Deniz Peters & Gerhard Eckel (eds.), Bodily Expression in Electronic Music: Perspectives on Reclaiming Performativity, 2nd ed. (paperback edition) (London/New York, NY: Routledge, 2013) (Routledge Research in Music 2), 230 pp.
(8) A. Dorschel, ‘Music as Play’, in Lydia Goehr et alii, Virtual Works | Actual Things, ed. Paulo de Assis (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2018) (Orpheus Academy Series, ed. Edward Crooks), 115–133.
(9) A. Dorschel, ‘The 19th Century’, in The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy, eds. Jerrold Levinson, Tomas McAuley & Nanette Nielsen (Oxford – New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021), 207–224
(10) A. Dorschel, Mit Entsetzen Scherz. Die Zeit des Tragikomischen (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2022)