Michael Maul

German musicologist Michael Maul became internationally known in 2005 through the discovery of the aria "Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn", BWV 1127 by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar; this was the first discovery of an unknown Bach vocal work in over 70 years. Maul has been a researcher at Bach-Archiv Leipzig since 2002, and he is a private lecturer in musicology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and lecturer in musicology at the University of Leipzig and the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig . In 2014/15 he was visiting professor at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and in 2015 he was a deputy professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. Maul is a regular author of radio broadcasts for Deutschlandfunk Kultur. He is a member of the board of the New Bach Society and the Presidium of Central German Baroque Music in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia eV (MBM). Maul has been the dramaturge of the Leipzig Bach Festival since 2015, and has been director of this festival since May 2018.