Martin Eybl was born on December 7, 1960, in Neumarkt im Hausruckkreis, a town in the province of Upper Austria, and was educated at the Gymnasium in Kremsmünster where he graduated in 1979.
Thereafter, he studied at the Anton Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and, in 1984, majored there in Piano Performance (class of Horst Matthaeus).
Martin Eybl has taught lectures and courses at the University of Vienna from 1991 until 2004, and has been teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 1994 (until 2004 in the fields of Schenkerian analysis and history of music theory).
From 1994 until 2006, he held a course about Schenkerian analysis (German: Lehrgang für Tonsatz nach Heinrich Schenker).
Since 2000, he is on the editorial board of Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich (DTÖ – German for Monuments of Musical Art in Austria), becoming editor-in-chief in 2007 (together with Theophil Antonicek).