Frederic von Vlahovits

Research

Infrastructures of musical knowledge and cultural circulation.

Research programme

I study how institutions and markets shape musical knowledge and its circulation, combining archival research with digital methods.

Current research

Publishing and Advertising Music across the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic

Building on my work on Julius Schuberth, I am developing a project on publishers’ roles in the circulation of music between Europe and America.

Book

Apparat Musikwissenschaft. Eine Geschichte der Musikforschung in der DDR

A history of music research in the German Democratic Republic

Peter Lang, 2026. Open access.

A study of how musicology was organised and practised under the SED dictatorship, with a companion digital edition and analysis tools.

Education

Positions

Publications

Book

Articles and chapters

Posters

Funding and awards

Projects

MusicDNA

Cooperation partner on algorithmic music recognition and analysis. Led by Anna Neovesky; funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation.

2025 – 2027

NFDI4Culture

Led the coordination office and managed portal development for the national research data consortium for cultural heritage.

2020 – 2021

Centres for Digital Music Documentation

Coordinated the centres at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.

2020 – 2021

AGATE

Contributed to the design and development of a European research information system for the Union of German Academies.

2018 – 2020

IncipitSearch

Co-developed a search platform and open API connecting notated music across repositories.

2017 – 2020

Portal Kleine Fächer

Contributed to the design and development of a portal documenting small academic disciplines in Germany.

2017 – 2020

Teaching

Professional training

Co-instructor with Julius Peinelt: „Recherchieren und analysieren mit KI: Quellenschutz und Datenethik in der Praxis“, MIZ Inspiration Day, Babelsberg, 9 September 2026.

Lectures