Michael Eberle is both performer and researcher, but methodologically distinguishes both aspects as different subjects. He relates both to one another only after an independent treatment.
Michael is a PhD-student at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. His project titled “Echoes of Harmony. Musical worldview in a transcultural 11th century with a special regard to the music theory of Michael Psellos” is supervised by Prof. Dr. Irene Holzer (LMU Munich) and Prof. Dr. Emmanouil Giannopoulos (AU Thessaloniki) and funded by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V.
The project’s goal is the transcultural analysis of 11th century musical cosmology in byzantine Greek, Arabic and Latin music philosophy based on ancient Greek and Roman sources.
Link to LMU-page
research interests
- Transculturality of music thinking in the early and high Middle Ages
- Liturgical Play and narrative Song in the early and high Middle Ages
- Gregorian and Byzantine Chant
- Neo-byzantine Chant and Maqam-based music of the early modern and modern period in the context of Orientalism and Transculturality
publications
- “thaz uuír ímo hiar gisúngun: Otfrid von Weissenburg’s 9th-century Liber Evangeliorum in performance” in: Performing the Medieval, ed. Kleio Pethainou (Trivent: Edinborough 2025) (forthcoming).
- “Von ‘veniunt’ zu ‘eamus’: Zur semantischen Funktion der Melodien im frühen
- Osterspiel, in: Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch 10 (2023), 7–19.
- Booklet-text CD “Under der Linden: Gesänge der Minnesänger“ by Ensemble Céladon (Outhere Music 2022).
- German translation from Latin and Medieval High and Low German texts for the booklet of the CD „Mare Balticum IV“ by Ensemble Peregrina (Tacet 2021).
conference papers
- “Reconstructing Michael Psellos’ music theory as a gateway to music thinking in 11th century Constantinople” (MedRen conference Granada 2024).
- “Echoes of Harmony: Michael Psellos as early byzantine theorist in transcultural comparison” (MedRen conference Munich 2023 (Poster)).
- “Resurrexi und Eamus: Zur semantischen Funktion der Melodien im frühen Osterspiel” (GfM-Jahrestagung Berlin 2022).
- “Der Sponsus und das narrative Ritual” (Colloquium Musik vor 1600 Mainz/Heidelberg/Munich 2021). Link to bio at website
- “The significance of music in the songs of Hugo von Montfort” (MedRen conference Basel 2019).
languages
Michael speaks German (native language) and English as well as Greek (B1), French (A2), Spanish (A2) and basic Arabic (A2). He received the Latinum and Graecum and completed courses on Old and Middle High German at the Universities of Heidelberg and Hamburg.
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