PD Dr. Daniel Hensel
Lecturer of Musicology
1994-1999 Student of Gerhard Schedl in composition and counterpoint at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory
1999-2003 Studied with Prof. Heinz Winbeck at the HfM Würzburg
2003-2004 Studied composition at the RSH Düsseldorf with Prof. Manfred Trojahn, graduating with distinction
2004-2005 Studied in the postgraduate programme A with Prof. Michael Obst at the HfM Weimar
2005-2008 Studied in the master class with Prof. Heinz Winbeck at the HfM Würzburg
2009-2011 Doctoral studies with Prof. Dr. Peter Ackermann at the HfMDK Frankfurt am Main and doctorate (Dr. phil.) on the work of Gerhard Schedl
2013-2016 Development of the music analysis software PALESTRiNIZER with Ingo Jache and habilitation in systematic musicology at the MLU Halle on ‘Mode, sound and time design in motets by Orlando di Lasso and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’
Artistic: 2007 Official German musical contribution to the handover of the EU Council Presidency from Germany to Portugal. 2008 Performances by Manfred Honeck, 2009 by the Ensemble Modern and Jonathan Stockhammer, several international performances, publication by the music publisher Doblinger Vienna, funding by NEUSTART KULTUR, GEMA and DMR, world premiere at the Schönberg Centre Vienna on the 150th birthday of Arnold Schönberg, commissioned works by BR-Klassik and hr2-kultur
Research: Austrian new music, historically informed music analysis, music theory of the 18th and 19th centuries, computer-assisted analysis of Renaissance music and its modal structures.