Markus
Neuwirth

Markus Neuwirth has held a professorship in music analysis at the Anton Bruckner Private University since the summer semester of 2020 and has served as Vice Rector for Research there since October 2024. Previously, he conducted research at the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he led the Volkswagen Foundation-funded digital project ‘From Bach to the Beatles’ (2018–2020) together with Martin Rohrmeier. Until September 2016, Neuwirth was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leuven (funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders), where he received his doctorate in musicology in 2013 with a thesis on recomposed reprises in Joseph Haydn and his contemporaries.

Since 2016, Neuwirth has been co-editor of the journal Music Theory and Analysis (MTA). From 2022 to 2024, he was a member of the editorial board of the journal Music & Science. Until 2023, he was responsible, together with Florian Edler and Immanuel Ott, for the open access series GMTH Proceedings of the Society for Music Theory. Together with Pieter Bergé, he edited the anthology What is a Cadence? Theoretical and Analytical Perspectives on Cadences in the Classical Repertoire (Leuven University Press, 2015), which was awarded the Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award 2018 by the American Society for Music Theory. Neuwirth is co-author (with Felix Diergarten) of a musical form theory published by Laaber in 2019. In addition, he has published numerous articles on various topics in music theory and history. Neuwirth's research focuses on form theory, digital corpus research, 18th-century music history, 18th- and 19th-century symphonic music, and musical syntax and semantics.

Until spring 2023, he headed the project ‘b-doc – the new digital knowledge network of the Anton Bruckner Private University’ (October 2022 to September 2024), which was funded by the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour as part of the ‘Arbeit Menschen Digital’ future fund. Neuwirth currently heads the Linz research team as part of the Sinergia project ‘Towards a Unified Model of Musical Form: Bridging Music Theory, Digital Corpus Research, and Computation’ (2024–2028), which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation with CHF 2.1 million.