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
- Music thinking in the earlier Middle Ages
- Medieval Liturgical Play and narrative Song
- Gregorian Chant
- Byzantine and post-byzantine Chant
- Medieval Arabic Music Theory
- Classical Ottoman Music
- Transculturality
- Pre-modern hermeneutics of music
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 frühenOsterspiel, 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).
Michael speaks German (native language), English, Greek, French, Spanish, and some Turkish and Arabic. Of historical languages, he reads Latin, Ancient Greek, and medieval Old and Middle High German.
michaeleberle.com 