Dr. Matteo Nanni

Biography

Matteo Nanni has been a professor at the Institute for Historical Musicology at the University of Hamburg since December 1, 2021. He studied in Cremona and Freiburg, where he completed his dissertation on Luigi Nono and Theodor W. Adorno's philosophy and musicology in 2003. He habilitated in 2015 in Musicology with a thesis concerning music and music theory of the Italian Late Middle Ages. Nanni held various academic positions at institutions including the University of Basel, where he was an assistant professor from 2010 to 2015. He has directed several research modules and led a project funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation regarding the visual logic of musical notation between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Notably, he was the co-leader of a DFG collaborative project from 2018 to 2021 focusing on musical notation and its attributes. His research interests encompass contemporary music and aesthetics, the relationship between music and image, medieval music history, and the theory of musical notation. He has also been involved in various educational projects, including a massive open online course on decoding musical manuscripts, and has published extensively in his fields of interest.

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