UCD School of Music
Scoil an Cheoil UCD
Dr Wolfgang Marx
M.A., Ph.D. (Hamburg)
Wolfgang Marx is Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Deputy Head of the School of Music and Chairman of the UCD Academic Forum. He also chairs the Research Strand Death, Burial and the Afterlife of the UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies. His research interests focus on the representation of death in music, György Ligeti and the theory of musical genres. In July 2012 he was awarded a graduate diploma in University Teaching and Learning. His modules in 2012/12 will include an introduction to opera, writing about music, the history of music since 1750, formal analysis, sociology of music, modernism and avant-garde, and the representation of death in music.
From 1992-2002 Wolfgang worked as a freelance author and product manager for several labels (Sony, Teldec, BMG, and others). In 1994 he was co-founder and between 1996 and 1998 chairman of the ‘Dachverband der Studierenden der Musikwissenschaft’ (German Musicological Students' Association).
Wolfgang holds an MA and a PhD from Hamburg University. He joined UCD's then Department of Music in 2002 and was Head of the restructured School of Music from 2005-8. From 2002-2012 he was co-editor of the journal Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, from 2004-2012 co-editor of the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. He is a member of the advisory board (Beirat) of the Europäische Totentanzvereinigung (European Danse Macabre Association).
Publications
Music in Goethe's Faust: Goethe's Faust in Music, Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Florian Krobb, Wolfgang Marx (eds), forthcoming (2013/14).
Dublin Death Studies 1, Philip Cottrell, Wolfgang Marx (eds), forthcoming (2013).
Eduard Hanslick, Aesthetic, Critical, and Cultural Contexts, Nicole Grimes, Siobhán Donovan, Wolfgang Marx (eds), Rochester: Boydell, forthcoming (2012/13).
'Mit Humor gegen den Tod? Ligeti's Opera Le Grand Macabre', in L'Art Macabre 13, forthcoming (2012).
'"How I wonder what you're at!" Sketch Studies of Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals', Contemporary Music Review 30, forthcoming (2012).
'"but slew his son, and half the seed of Europe, one by one" War and Requiem Compositions in the Twentieth Century', in Maria-Jose Blanco, Ricarda Videl (eds), The Carnival of Death, New York, Oxford: Berghahn, forthcoming (2012).
‘"Requiem sempiternam?" Death and the Musical Requiem in the Twentieth Century’, in Mortality 17/2, Special Issue: Music and Death (May 2012), 119-29.
‘"De morte transire ad vitam?" Emotion and Identity in Nineteenth-century Requiem Compositions’, in Emotion, Identity and Death – Mortality across Disciplines, Douglas J. Davies, Chang-Won Park (eds), Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate 2012, 189-203.
György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds. Louise Duchesneau, Wolfgang Marx (eds), Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011.
‘“Make Room for the Grand Macabre!” The Concept of Death in György Ligeti’s Œuvre’, in György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds. Louise Duchesneau, Wolfgang Marx (eds), Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011, 71-84.
‘Freund Heins Nachfolger! Viktor Ullmanns Oper Der Kaiser von Atlantis’, in L’Art Macabre 12 (2011), 71-85.
‘Domesticating Death? The Musical Other in Antonín Dvořák's Requiem Op. 89’, in Musicology without Frontiers. Festschrift in Honour of Stanislav Tuksar. Ivano Cavallini, Harry White (eds), Zagreb: Croatian Musicological Society, 2010, 113-28
Klassifikation und Gattungsbegriff in der Musikwissenschaft, Hildesheim 2004.
‘Das Studium der Musikwissenschaft in Deutschland’, with Jan Hemming, Brigitte Markuse, in Die Musikforschung 53 (2000), 366-388.
Lontano - "Aus weiter Ferne". Zur Musiksprache und Assoziationsvielfalt György Ligetis, with Christiane Engelbrecht and Britta Sweers, Hamburg 1997.