… 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. 2005. Prohaska, Carl. Ludwig Finscher. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Personenteil 13. Kassel etc.: Bärenreiter.
- Rausch, Alexander. 2004. Neukomm, Sigismund Ritter von. Ludwig Finscher. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik, Personenteil Bd. 13. Kassel etc.-Stuttgart-Weimar: Bärenreiter und Metzler.
- Rausch, Alexander. 2004. Über die Negation in der Musik. In Musikgeschichte als Verstehensgeschichte. Festschrift für Gernot Gruber zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Joachim Brügge u.a., 505-512. Tutzing: Hans Schneider.