Simon P. Keefe - The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto

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Timothy Day is Curator of Classical Music Recordings at the British Library. He has contributed to two other Cambridge Companions, on Elgar and on singing, and is the author of A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History (2000). In 1999 he established the British Librarys Saul Seminar series, Studies in Recorded Music, and in 2000 inaugurated the Edison Fellowship scheme, to assist scholars who wish to carry out intensive work on the Librarys collections of recordings of Western art music.

Tia DeNora teaches Sociology at Exeter University. She is author of Beethoven and the Construction of Genius (1995), Music in Everyday Life (2000) and After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology (2003). Her current research focuses on two areas, material culture in Beethovens Vienna, and music therapy and the mindbody debate in sociology.

Cliff Eisen teaches at Kings College London. He has published numerous articles on Mozart and late eighteenth-century music generally and is currently working on an annotated translation of Hermann Aberts classic W.A. Mozart as well as an edition of selected Mozart letters.

Simon P. Keefe is Professor of Music and Head of Department at City University London. He is the author of Mozarts Piano Concertos: Dramatic Dialogue in the Age of Enlightenment (2001) and of numerous articles on late eighteenth-century topics and is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Mozart (2003).

Stephan D. Lindeman is Associate Professor of Theory in the School of Music at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. His publications include Structural Novelty and Tradition in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto (1999), an article on Felix Mendelssohns concerted works in The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn (2004) and several articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Revised Edition (2001) related to the concerto genre in the nineteenth century. Lindemans research interests also include jazz and he is active as a jazz composer and pianist.

David Rowland is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Open University and Director of Music at Christs College, Cambridge. He has made frequent broadcasts and recordings as an organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist and as conductor of Christs College Choir and the National Youth Choir of Wales. He has written extensively on the history of the piano, its performance and repertory, including A History of Pianoforte Pedalling (1993) and Early Keyboard Instruments: a Practical Guide (2001), and is editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Piano (1998).

David E. Schneider teaches music history and theory at Amherst College. His work has appeared in Studia Musicologica , Journal of the American Musicological Society , Bartk and his World (ed. Peter Laki), and the International Journal of Musicology . His book Bartk, Hungary and the Renewal of Tradition is scheduled for publication by the University of California Press in 2005. A professional clarinettist, he has recorded Coplands Clarinet Concerto on the AFKA label.

Robin Stowell is Professor and Head of Music at Cardiff University. Much of his career as a musicologist is reflected in his work as a performer (violinist/Baroque violinist). His first major book Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (1985) was a pioneering work in its field, and he has since published numerous chapters/articles in a wide range of books, dictionaries and journals. His most recent major publications include a Cambridge Handbook on Beethovens Violin Concerto (1998), The Early Violin and Viola: a Practical Guide (2001) and a co-authored volume (with Colin Lawson) entitled Historical Performance: an Introduction (1999), these last two publications forming part of a series of Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music of which he is co-editor. He is music consultant for and chief contributor to The Violin Book (1999) and editor of Performing Beethoven (1994); he is also editor/principal contributor to the Cambridge Companions to the Violin (1992), the Cello (1999) and the String Quartet (2003).

Michael Talbot is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published extensively on Italian music of the first half of the eighteenth century and takes a special interest in the life and music of Vivaldi. He has edited several of Vivaldis sacred vocal works for the New Critical Edition published by Ricordi.

R. Larry Todd is Professor of Music at Duke University. He has published widely on music of the nineteenth century, including, most recently, Mendelssohn: a Life in Music , named best biography of 2003 by the Association of American Publishers. He is currently writing a new biography of Mendelssohns sister, Fanny Hensel.