
Vasiliki Papadopoulou, M.A. PhD
Telephone
(+43 1) 51581 – 3718
… studied violin, Baroque violin, musicology, and art history in Cologne/Wuppertal, Zurich, and Vienna. In 2015, she earned her PhD in historical musicology from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and received the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Economy’s “Award of Excellence 2015” for her dissertation. In 2023, she completed an MBA in Management & Technology (General Management) at Technische Universität Wien, supported by a “Diversity in Leadership” scholarship, and received a “Best Study Award.” From 2016 to 2020, she was a member of the Young Academy Mainz, and from 2018 to 2025 she served as co-editor of Musicologica Austriaca – Journal for Austrian Music Studies. She has taught at the University of Vienna and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is currently a lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts, where she leads the SNSF project “Editorial Decisions under the Microscope” (Spark funding for unconventional, high-risk research ideas). She currently serves as a member on the Commission for Interdisciplinary Schubert Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
At the ACDH, she works in the Department of Musicology, which she joined in December 2014 as part of the project Johannes Brahms Complete Edition. She currently heads the Vienna Research Group of the New Schubert Edition and leads the project Schubert-digital; she is also the principal investigator of “Schubert meets AI” (City of Vienna, MA 7). She has contributed to the projects Schubert-online and Johann Joseph Fux Edition and led a research project on Brahms reception in Vienna funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs. Her research and publications focus on music philology, reception studies, and performance practice, as well as digital musicology and the digital transformation of music education.
Publications
- Schubert meets AI: Automatisierte, LLM-basierte Konvertierung quellenbezogener Daten nach MEI. / Papadopoulou, Vasiliki; Czernin, Anna Maria; Gubsch, Clemens et al.
DHd 2026 Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten (DHd2026), Wien. Hrsg. / Silke Schwandt; Gabriel Viehhauser; Tara Andrews; Thomas Wallnig; Beatrice Nava; Patrick Helling. 2026. S. 198-203. - Vom „historischen Kuriosum“ zum „großen Musik-Genius“. Die Wiener Bach-Rezeption um Josef Fischhof und Joseph Hellmesberger sen. im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Presse. / Papadopoulou, Vasiliki.
Bach und Wien. Zur Bach-Rezeption in der Habsburgermonarchie. Hrsg. / Christine Blanken; Marko Motnik. Baden-Baden: Georg Olms, 2026. S. 257-300 (Leipziger Beiträge zur Bach-Forschung; Band 13).
Lectures
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Hamburg
Schubert’s Gesang der Geister über den Wassern D 714 Reconsidered
Papadopoulou, V. (Speaker)
11 Oct 2025 -
Wien
Von Geistern, altem Papier und neuen Editionen: Schuberts Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
Papadopoulou, V. (Speaker)
26 Sep 2025 -
Salzburg
Beyond the Physical Page: Potentials of Digital Autograph Reconstructions using the Example of Schubert’s Music Manuscripts
Gubsch, C. (Speaker), Gulewycz, P. (Speaker), Czernin, A. M. (Contributor) & Papadopoulou, V. (Contributor)
11 Jul 2025 -
London
Schubert Reimag(in)ed: A Novel Approach for the Digital Reconstruction of Music Manuscripts
Gubsch, C. (Speaker), Gulewycz, P. (Contributor), Provaznik, P. (Contributor), Czernin, A. M. (Contributor) & Papadopoulou, V. (Contributor)
5 Jun 2025 -
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Oratorium, Josefsplatz 1, 1010 Wien
Musikalischer und musikkritischer Eklektizismus: Johannes Brahms und Anton Bruckner in der Wiener Presse des 19. Jahrhunderts
Papadopoulou, V. (Speaker)
12 Apr 2024 -
Festsaal, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
Wiener Brahms-Rezeption 1862–1902
Jaros, M. (Speaker) & Papadopoulou, V. (Speaker)
25 Oct 2023
