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Arnulf Christian Mattes
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Arnulf Christian Mattes

Position

Professor, Leader of Centre for Grieg Research, UiB

Affiliation

E-mail
arnulf.mattes@uib.no
Visitor address
Senter for Griegforskning, UiB Lars Hilles gate 20A
5008 Bergen
Postal address
P.O. Box 7800
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

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Arnulf Christian Mattes

Position

Professor, Leader of Centre for Grieg Research, UiB

Affiliation

Research groups

Short info

My research is in the areas of music historiography, music philosophy/music aesthetics and music edition/philology.
My more recent research addresses cultural-historical aspects of art music of the 19th and 20th centuries as part of collective cultural memory and national 'heritage.
Research

Specialisms:

Historical Musicology (19th and 20th century) 

Music historiography

Music philosophy

Music and cultural memory

Music and historical performance practice

Digital music edition

Musical modernism

Norwegian art music and musical heritage

 

 

 

Teaching

Courses and supervision:

Courses given since 2012:

Grieg Academy – Department of Music, University of Bergen: Bachelor courses (ECT: 10/15 points):
- MVK 104 Grieg studies (course leader)
- MVK 250 Bachelor Thesis in Musicology (supervisor)
- MVK 100 Introduction to Musicology (lecturer).

Department of music, University of Oslo: Master/bachelor courses, organiser, lecturer, examiner:
- MUS 4501/2501 – Current Musicological Research: Listening to the Twentieth Century and Beyond
- MUS 4216 – Musicological methodologies (Musikkvitenskapelig metode: Historie, estetikk, analyse)
- MUS 4500/2500 – Current Musicological Research
- MUS 1105 – History of music philosophy and history of musicology (Ex. fac.)
- MUS 1400 and MUS 1430 – Music history (Musikkhistorie - Vestlig kunstmusikk)

Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH) Master/bachelor courses, organiser, lecturer, examiner:
- EXMUS11: Norwegian Music History/Edvard Grieg
- MUHIST1 and MUHIST 11: Music history 
- MSUTV70: Applied music theory 
- FORFOR70: Music philology and source criticism

Supervisor/co-supervisor of PhD fellows in musicology:

Grieg Research Centre/ Grieg Academy, UiB:
Sjur Haga Bringeland (2019­–): Bach Reception in Norway in Early 20th Century
Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo:
Njål Ølnes (NMH): Frå små teikn til store former (2016): Analysar av det improviserte samspelet med hjelp av auditiv sonologi.
Sebastian Wemmerløv (2021–): David Monrad Johansens oppføringspraksis og teori.
Supervisor/co-supervisor of PhD fellows in artistic research: 
Annabel Guaita (2004, UiB): Fartein Valens klavermusikk i nytt lys.
Daniel Henry Øvrebø (2021, UiA): Performative Arts-Based Audience Research: Investigating Audience. Experiences with High Modernist Solo Works for Flute.

PhD evaluation commissions/public defense opponent, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo:

Tanja Orning (2014): The polyphonic performer. A study of performance practice in music for solo cello by Feldman, Lachenmann, Hübler and Steen-Andersen. 
Henrik Holm (2018): Musikkens logos. Om Wilhelm Furtwänglers interpretasjonskunst.
Bjørnar Habbestad (2022): Critical Studies of Performer Agency in Modern Flute Music     
PhD trial defence opponent:
Hilde Halvorsrød (2019): Webern and the Voice.
Lars-Thomas Holm (2021): Kritisk-vitenskapelige edisjoner av Ludvig Irgens-Jensen.
Sebastian Wemmerløv (2022): David Monrad Johansens oppføringspraksis og teori.

Publications
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2017
2015
2021
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2018
2010
2016
2014
2023
2022
2009
2024
2020
2013
2004
2007
2012
2011
2025
2008
1999
2002

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Projects

Ongoing and finished research projects: 

2024–: 'Forgotten Voices - Musical Heritage, Archives, and New National Narratives'. HUMANITIES STRATEGY FUNDING, University of Bergen. 

2016–2023: 'Transforming the Nordic - Music and Politics in Norway 1930–45'. Cooperation with DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT (DFG). Funding from GOETHE INSTITUT NORWAY. Read more here.

2017–2022: '(Un-)settling Sites and Styles: Performers in Search of New Expressive Means. Sub-project. Cooperation with Grieg Academy and NORWEGIAN ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROGRAMME. Read more here.

2016–2022: 'Grieg Research Guide' - Online bibliography and work catalogue. Digital development initiative in cooperation with Centre for Grieg Resrarch, University Library Bergen and Bergen Public Library. Funding from the NORWEGIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY. Read more here.

2021–2022: Strategic Fund KMD/UiB University of Bergen, Faculty of Arts, Music, and design (KMD) Remembering Lost Music: Jewish Cultural Life in Scandinavia Project leader in collaboration with Prof. Dániel Péter Biró (composition) at Grieg Academy, UiB Research project on Jewish Musical Heritage in Scandinavia and local Jewish musical life in Bergen. International research seminar, student workshops, concerts.

2020–2022: EEA Norway Grant. Project leader, partner project Grieg Research Centre. Project promoter: Chopin Institute, Warzawa. The project is funded through The Norwegian Research Council - EEA and Norway Grants, in cooperation with The Arts Council Norway.

2018–2019: SPIRE (Strategisk program for internasjonalt forskningssamarbeid) - Såkornsmidler Nordic music and resistance, Project leader, musicology and artistic research, student exchange project and joint international seminar, Grieg Research Centre/Grieg academy and Universität Münster, Germany.

2012–2017: NFR FRIPRO (FRIHUM) NFR-project 213807 Fartein Valen – atonal nybrottsmann og tradisjonsbærer. Investigator and project leader. 

2009–2012: NFR FRIPRO (FRIHUM) Individual NFR-postdoc-grant, project 191575, Musical Expression in Transforming Cultures –Rudolf Kolisch’s Performance Practice. Project leader and principal investigator.