Nina-Maria Wanek

Nina-Maria Wanek is a Lecturer in Historical Musicology at the University of Vienna's Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Her work bridges Byzantine musicology with broader European liturgical traditions, focusing on manuscript analysis, chanting practices, and cultural transfer between East and West.

Her research spans the 10th to 21st centuries, examining Byzantine and post-Byzantine liturgical music through manuscripts, comparative chant studies, and cross-cultural reception. Key areas include Greek-Latin bilingual chants, medieval performance practices, and archival studies of composers like Egon Wellesz and Nikos Skalkottas.

Recent publications (2024-2022) analyze Byzantine gestural notation, Missa Graeca chants, and 11th-century Latin-Greek musical interfaces. Earlier works (2013-2007) focus on post-Byzantine sticheraria, Austrian National Library's Greek collections, and Renaissance-era Byzantine reception. Her career includes editing archival materials (e.g., Egon Wellesz correspondence) and documenting Vienna's Byzantine music scholarship legacy.

Her expertise appears in technical domains like manuscript cataloging, chant notation systems, and biographical musicology. The University of Vienna's u:cris profile reflects active engagement with historical sources and interdisciplinary methodologies.