A.o. Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Wolfgang Gratzer
Wolfgang Gratzer is a musicologist at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where he has worked since 1989 and served as Vice Rector for Development and Research (2010–2014). His research focuses on musical hermeneutics, reception and interpretation research, and composer self-interpretation.
Wolfgang Gratzer (b. 1965) studied musicology and journalism and communication studies at the University of Salzburg from 1983 to 1988. He subsequently completed his doctorate there in 1990 with a dissertation entitled Zur „wunderlichen Mystik“ Alban Bergs.
He completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna in 2001 with the thesis Komponistenkommentare: Beiträge zu einer Geschichte der Eigeninterpretation.
Gratzer has been affiliated with the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 1989, initially working at the Institute for Musical Hermeneutics and, following his habilitation, as a lecturer in musicology. In 2006, together with Joachim Brügge and Thomas Hochradner, he co-founded the Institute for the History of Musical Reception and Interpretation. From 2010 to 2014, he served as Vice Rector for Development and Research.
From 2011 to 2014, he was part of the management team of the inter-university doctoral programme Art and Public Spheres. Between 2015 and 2018, he was involved in the management of the three-year doctoral programme The Arts and Their Public Impact: Concepts – Transfer – Resonance. In 2015, he co-founded the inter-university research initiative Music and Migration together with Nils Grosch.