Michael Maul

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Michael Maul, born in 1978, is a German musicologist who studies Johann Sebastian Bach. He was born in Leipzig and still lives there. At the Bach Archive he travels to libraries and archives around the world to study Bach’s sources. He is also the artistic director of Leipzig’s annual Bach festival.

Maul earned his PhD at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on Baroque opera, which became the basis for his book Barockoper in Leipzig (1693–1720).

In 2005, Maul gained international attention with a discovery in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar: a manuscript of Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn, BWV 1127, the first previously unknown vocal work by Bach found in seventy years. More research in Weimar uncovered additional Bach manuscripts by Bach himself and by other composers, shedding light on his musical education.

Maul believes there are probably more unidentified Bach manuscripts waiting to be discovered.