Joep Janssens - Musicologist
Joep Janssens has been working as a university assistant in the Section of Musicology at the Department of Art and Musicology since July 2024. After completing his bachelor's degree in forestry in the Netherlands, he studied musicology at the universities of Graz and Vienna.
He also works as an author of program introductions for concerts and has been a member of the editorial board of the first German-language student musicology magazine StiMMe which he was involved in founding.
In his dissertation project, he is researching the role of the politicized discourse of the 'German forest' in 19th century choral music as part of the interdisciplinary focus area Perception: Episteme, Aesthetics, Politics, bringing together music, perception of nature, identity and politics in the humanities.
Joep Janssen's research interests lie in the interdisciplinary approach to music history, with a particular focus on the analysis of musical topoi and the connection between nature, politics and identity in the 19th century. In his bachelor's thesis, he examined the historical development of the topos of ecstasy in Alexander Scriabin's piano sonatas. In his master's thesis on the musical topoi of the forest in 19th century piano music, presented at the Austrian Society for Music , he combined musical score analysis with literary, social and environmental historical processes. As part of the international conference"Music and Climate Change" at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, he delved further into the connection between music history and nature. Here, he presented the thesis that art played a significant role in the context of changing attitudes towards the environment in the 19th century based on the "Appearance of two types of landscape in the piano character piece".
Researchers from the two sections
Current research focuses on the architecture, sculpture and painting of historicism and modernism
Engages in various aspects of fundamental relationships between visual arts and techniques as part of research project
Active for many years in the field of modern and contemporary art
Joep Janssen's research interests lie in the interdisciplinary approach to music history, with a particular focus on the analysis of musical topoi and the connection between nature, politics and identity in the 19th century.
The current focus is on the discourses of posthumanism in relation to contemporary phenomena of musical culture
Focus on the topicality of critical theory as well as on possible connections between aesthetics and politics in contemporary art
Currently working on the temporality of artifacts in the pre-1500 period and allegorical tapestries between the late medieval and early modern periods
Her research interests include historiography of modern art, non-Western modern and contemporary art productions, as well as art theory from the global South and postcolonial art history
After working on the reconstruction of the production system of opera in the Eastern Adriatic theaters, the current focus is on Giuseppe Tartini's "School of Nations"
Main research area is the history of opera from the 17th to the 20th century in Europe and the worldwide distribution areas of the genre
Works on the one hand on the composer Franz Waxman and his life and work "between film music and concert hall". Dedicates the new project to the digital edition of Gumpenhuber's theater chronicles