Stefan Hagel

Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.

Deputy Head Dpt. of Classical Studies

Stefan Hagel

Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.

Deputy Head Dpt. of Classical Studies

Group Leader
RG »Ancient Music«

+43 1 51581-2341
stefan.hagel(at)oeaw.ac.at
Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/stefan.hagel/

Biographical sketch

Classicist. Starting from an analysis of melody patterns in Greek epic verse, Stefan Hagel specialised in ancient music, with publications on ancient music theory and its relation with musical practice, on musical instruments with focus on lyres and double pipes, and on questions of metre and rhythm. His work involves reconstruction of instruments and playing techniques, which have frequently been demonstrated to an international public in form of lecture-concerts. Characteristic for Hagel’s research is an extensive application of computer techniques and mathematical methods; he also created the »Classical Text Editor« http://cte.oeaw.ac.at/, now the most widely used specialised word processor for critical editions as well as the free available keyboard utility MultiKey http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/multikey/.

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The Oxus Auloi: Interpretation and Reconstruction. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Journal of Music Archaeology, Vol. 3, 2025, p. 83–129.
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Music from Pompeii: Understanding the Aulos Fondo Prisco A+B. / Hagel, Stefan; Wyslucha, Kamila.
In: Greek and Roman Musical Studies, Vol. 13, 2025, p. 119-164.
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Inside the hydra: Taking the ancient water organ seriously. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Greek and Roman Musical Studies, Vol. 11, 15.03.2023, p. 52–81.
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The Mouthpiece of the Aulos Revisited. / Wyslucha, Kamila; Hagel, Stefan.
In: Greek and Roman Musical Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2023, p. 362-407.
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How is technology useful to approach music of Antiquity? / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Greek and Roman Musical Studies, Vol. 10, 15.10.2022, p. 269–289.
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Re-stringing the Daphne Harp? / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Greek and Roman Musical Studies, Vol. 10, 08.03.2022, p. 99–113.
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Two auloi from Megara. / Hagel, Stefan; Terzis, Christos.
In: Greek and Roman Musical Studies, Vol. 10, 08.03.2022, p. 15–77.
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Ancient ‘solmisation’ and the meaning of notes. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Greek and Roman Musical Studies, Vol. 10, 08.03.2022, p. 136–175.
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Assessing unknown parameters of instrument finds by writing software. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Archeologia e Calcolatori, Vol. 32, No. 1, 15.11.2021, p. 403–421.
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Reconstructing the Auloi from Queen Amanishakheto’s Pyramid. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Studien zur Musikarchäologie (Orient-Archäologie), Vol. 11, 15.06.2019, p. 177–197.
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Adjusting words to music: Overlongs and the example of ‘dactylo-epitrite’. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 138, 15.12.2018, p. 227–248.
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T. Flavius Damianus und der Grabbau seiner Familie: Überlegungen zu dem Grabgedicht. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien, Vol. 86 (2017), 15.06.2018, p. 289-291.
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‘Musics’, Bellermann’s Anonymi, and the art of the aulos. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Greek and Roman Musical Studies, Vol. 6, 25.03.2018, p. 128–176.
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Xiwangmu’s double pipe: a musical link to the far Hellenistic West? / Furniss, Ingrid; Hagel, Stefan.
In: Imago Musicae, Vol. 29, 15.07.2017, p. 7–32.
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‘Leading notes’ in ancient Near Eastern and Greek music and their relation to instrument design. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Orient-Archäologie, Vol. 10 (37), 15.10.2016, p. 133–150.
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Better understanding the Louvre Aulos. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Orient-Archäologie, Vol. 9, 01.03.2015, p. 131–142.
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The Daphne instruments: Questions of Pitch and Tonality. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Greek and Roman Musical Studies, Vol. 1, 01.03.2013, p. 151–171.
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The Pompeii auloi: Improved data and a hitherto unknown mechanism. / Hagel, Stefan; Both, Arnd Adje (Editor); Eichmann, Ricardo (Editor) et al.
In: Orient-Archäologie, Vol. 8, 15.10.2012, p. 103–114.
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How to shoot an aulos – taking measurements from photographs. / Hagel, Stefan; Both, Arnd Adje (Editor); Eichmann, Ricardo (Editor) et al.
In: Orient-Archäologie, Vol. 8, 15.10.2012, p. 405–413.
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Understanding the aulos Berlin Egyptian Museum 12461/12462. / Hagel, Stefan; Both, Arnd Adje (Editor); Eichmann, Ricardo (Editor) et al.
In: Orient-Archäologie, Vol. 7, 15.09.2010, p. 67–87.
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Ancient Greek rhythm: The Bellermann exercises. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, Vol. 88, No. 1, 15.12.2008, p. 125–138.
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Reversing the abstraction of ancient music theory. The case of the genera. / Hagel, Stefan; Both, Arnd Adje (Editor); Eichmann, Ricardo (Editor) et al.
In: Musik-Archäologie, Vol. 6, 15.09.2008, p. 461–475.
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Re-evaluating the Pompeii auloi. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 128, 15.06.2008, p. 52-71.
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The context of tunings. Thirds and septimal intervals in ancient Greek music. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Musik-Archäologie 5. Orientarchäologie, Vol. 20, 19.09.2006, p. 281-304.
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Is nīd qabli Dorian? Tuning and modality in Greek and Hurrian music. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Orient Abteilung - Baghdad (Baghdader Mitteilungen), Vol. 36 (2005), 15.06.2006, p. 287-348.
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Calculating auloi – the Louvre aulos scale. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Studien zur Musikarchäologie, Vol. 4, 15.06.2004, p. 373-390.
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Musik zwischen Apollon und Dionysos — Der delphische Paian des Athēnaios. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Studien zur Musikarchäologie, Vol. 3, 15.06.2002, p. 403-411.
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Zur physikalischen Begründung der pythagoreischen Musikbetrachtung. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Wiener Studien, Vol. 114, 15.06.2001, p. 85-93.
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EDV-mäßige Erfassung, Lemmatisierung und Indizierung Kleinasiatischer Inschriften. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Studia Iranica Mesopotamica, Vol. 2, 15.06.1996, p. 101-109.
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Computergestützte Hexameter — Hexametersingender Computer. / Hagel, Stefan; Danek, Georg.
In: Studia Iranica Mesopotamica & Anatolica, Vol. 2, 15.06.1996, p. 111-122.
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Zu den Konstituenten des griechischen Hexameters. / Hagel, Stefan.
In: Wiener Studien, Vol. 107/108, 15.06.1994, p. 77-108.
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‘Coptic lutes’ scales – finding a robust approach. / Hagel, Stefan; Bührig, C (Editor); al, et (Editor).
Klänge der Archäologie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021. p. 165–173.
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Understanding early auloi: Instruments from Paestum, Pydna and elsewhere. / Hagel, Stefan; Zuchtriegel, G (Editor); Meriani, A (Editor).
La tomba del Tuffatore: rito, arte e poesia a Paestum e nel Mediterraneo d’epoca tardo-arcaica. Pisa, 2021. p. 421–459.
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The birth of European music from the spirit of the lyre. / Hagel, Stefan; Kolltveit, G (Editor); Rainio, R (Editor).
The Archaeology of Sound, Acoustics and Music. Berlin: Ekho Verlag, 2020. p. 151–169 (Publications of the ICTM Study Group for Music Archaeology).
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Notation. / Hagel, Stefan; Lynch, T (Editor); Rocconi, E (Editor).
Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music. Hoboken/NJ, 2020. p. 297–310 (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World).
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Shaping characters: An ancient science of musical ethos? / Hagel, Stefan; Eichmann, R (Editor); Howell, M (Editor) et al.
Music and politics in the Ancient World. Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2019. p. 87–103.
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Music and Harmonic Theory. / Hagel, Stefan; Kayser, P.T (Editor); Scarborough, J (Editor).
Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World. Oxford: OUP, 2018. p. 445–461.
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The auloi from Meroë: Preliminary notes on the conservation, technical examination, and interpretation of a cache of ancient musical instruments. / Gänsicke, Susanne; Hagel, Stefan; Daehner, J.M (Editor) et al.
Artistry in Bronze: The Greeks and Their Legacy. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2017.
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Language and dance: a non-Platonising view. / Hagel, Stefan; Gianvittorio, L (Editor).
Choreutika. Performing dance in archaic and classical Greece. Pisa/Roma, 2017. p. 198–214.
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An invention worth fifty cows: Evidence for supra-regionality in tortoise shell lyre construction. / Hagel, Stefan; al, Luigi Bravi et (Editor).
Tra Lyra e Aulos. Pisa/Roma, 2016. p. 157–166 (Quaderni Della «Rivista Di Cultura Classica e Medioevale»).
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Sound reasoning in Pr. 11? Disentangling the Components of Voices. / Hagel, Stefan; Mayhew, R (Editor).
The Aristotelian Problemata physica. Philosophical and Scientific Investigations. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015. p. 151–171.
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Fachliteratur: Musik. / Hagel, Stefan; Zimmermann, B (Editor); Rengakos, A (Editor).
Handbuch der griechischen Literatur der Antike. München: Beck, 2014. p. 553-557.
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Η ανακατασκευή των αρχαίων μουσικών οργάνων και η αναβίωση της μουσικής (The reconstruction of ancient musical instruments and music). / Hagel, Stefan.
Ελληνικά μουσικά όργανα: αναζητήσεις σε εικαστικές και γραμματειακές μαρτυρίες (2000 π.Χ. – 2000 μ.Χ.). Thessaloniki, 2012. p. 91–98.
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Text und Musik in der antiken hellenischen und hellenistischen Kultur: Eine Einführung. / Hagel, Stefan; Pruzsinszky, Regine (Editor); Shehata, Dahlia (Editor).
Musiker und Tradierung. Studien zur Rolle von Musikern bei der Verschriftlichung und Tradierung von literarischen Werken. Wien, 2010. p. 19–32.
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Didymos des Musikers epimorischer Epizentrismus. / Hagel, Stefan; Lukaseder, W (Editor); Huemer, J (Editor).
Ad maiorem dei gloriam. 2006. p. 162-169.
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Music in Ancient Greece. / Hagel, Stefan.
Technosophia. 2006.
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Caesura and Melody. / Hagel, Stefan; Spaltenstein, F (Editor); Bianchi, O (Editor).
Autour de la césure. Bern, 2004. p. 11-22.
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Tables beyond O’Neill. / Hagel, Stefan; Spaltenstein, F (Editor); Bianchi, O (Editor).
Autour de la césure. Bern, 2004. p. 135–215.
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Erfassung von Inschriften auf Computer durch die Kleinasiatische Kommission der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. / Hagel, Stefan; Fell, M (Editor); Schäfer, C (Editor) et al.
Datenbanken in der Alten Geschichte. St. Katharinen, 1994. p. 4-11 (Computer und Antike 2).
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Singing ancient Greek. / Hagel, Stefan; Philip, S (Editor).
2021.
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Musik schreiben – das Notationssystem der klassischen Antike. / Hagel, Stefan; Leitmeir, F (Editor); Shehata, D (Editor) et al.
Würzburg: Würzburg University Press. 2019.
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Aerofoni bicalami da Pompei. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Music and Sounds in Ancient Europe. / DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor); Hagel, Stefan (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Musica e Suoni nell’Antica Europa. / DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor); Hagel, Stefan (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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A Gift from the Gods – Music in Ancient Greek Myth. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Grecia antica. La nascita della musica. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Guerrieri e bardi. La lira dominante. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Breathing Harmony: The Art of the Ancient Doublepipe. / Sutkowska, Olga; Angeli, De (Editor); Both, Arnd Adje (Editor) et al.
Roma: Regione Lazio. 2018.
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Un alfabeto del suono. La prima notazione melodica conosciuta. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Essere i migliori. Gare di musica nell’antichitá. / Hagel, Stefan; Angeli, Stefano De (Editor); Both, Arndt Adje (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Un dono degli Dei. La musica nell’antica mitologia greca. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Warriors and Bards: the Dominant Lyre. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Double-Pipes from Pompeii. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Ancient Greece - The Birth of Music. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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An Alphabet of Sound: The First Known Melodic Notation. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Being the Best - Musical Contests in Antiquity. / Hagel, Stefan; DeAngeli, Stefano (Editor); Adje-Both, Arndt (Editor) et al.
Roma. 2018.
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Respirando armonia, L’arte dell’antico aulós. / Sutkowska, Olga; Angeli, De (Editor); Both, Arnd Adje (Editor) et al.
Roma: Regione Lazio. 2018.
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Comprendre la música antiga gràcies a les noves tecnologies. / Hagel, Stefan.
Viena Edicions. 2018.
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I suoni: Ricostruire gli strumenti musicali antichi. / Hagel, Stefan; Paolucci, G (Editor); Sarti, S (Editor).
Roma. 2012.
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Homerische Sänger im heutigen Bosnien. / Danek, Georg; Hagel, Stefan; Hattler, Claus (Editor).
Karlsruhe. 2008.
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Die Sänger aus musikarchäologischer Perspektive. / Hagel, Stefan; Latacz, J (Editor); Blome, P (Editor) et al.
München: Hirmer. 2008.
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Apollon und Marsyas – Klang im Wettstreit. / Hagel, Stefan; Brinkmann, Vinzenz (Editor).
Petersberg. 2008.
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Breathing Harmony, The Art of the Ancient Doublepipe. / Sutkowska, Olga; Angeli, De (Editor); Both, Arnd Adje (Editor) et al.
Rom: Regione Lazio. 2018.
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Stefan Hagel

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Stefan Hagel

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