… recieved his PhD in musicology in 1997 at the University of Vienna. As a specialist in medieval music theory, he participated in and directed several projects funded by the FWF.
Since 2003, he has been employed at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he has been collaborating in projects as the Austrian Music Lexicon, or Habsburg representation, among others. Since 2015, he has been directing the working group Music Edition and Documentation at the Department of Musicology. In 2022 he was elected as a member of the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich. As a music editor, he is currently engaged in the new critical edition Johann Joseph Fux – Werke.
Publications
- Rausch, Alexander. 2023. J. J. Fux: Kaiserrequiem [CD-Booklet]. Johann Joseph Fux: Kaiserrequiem / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Missa in D, Zeronove I Pizzicanti Lukas Wanner [CD PROSP0085].
- Rausch, Alexander. 2022. Johann Joseph Fux: Gli ossequi della Notte FuxWV II.2.9 (K 305). Johann Joseph Fux - Werke B/I/3. Wien: Hollitzer.
- Rausch, Alexander, Ramona Hocker, and Elisabeth Hilscher. 2021. Plaudite! Musik von Fux, Telemann und Vivaldi. Klingende Forschung – Konzertdokumentation 7. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- Rausch, Alexander. 2021. Das Dezennium 1430/40 - eine Zäsur in der Musikgeschichte Österreichs?. In Musik - Identität - Raum. Perspektiven auf die österreichische Musikgeschichte (Wiener Musikwissenschaftliche Beiträge 27), eds. Gernot Gruber, Barbara Boisits,, and Björn R. Tammen, 39-80. Wien-Köln-Weimar: Böhlau. doi:10.7767/9783205219163.39.
- Rausch, Alexander. 2020. Johann Joseph Fux: Dafne in lauro FuxWV II.2.11 (K 308). Johann Joseph Fux - Werke B/I/2. Wien: Hollitzer.
- Rausch, Alexander. 2019. Johann Joseph Fux (ca. 1660-1741), Ave Regina (K 208). Fux Concertato Nr. 2.