R. Larry Todd

Office Hours:

Wednesdays & Fridays: 9:45 a.m. - 11 a.m. or by appointment.

Education

• Ph.D. Yale University, 1979
• M.Phil. Yale University, 1976
• B.A. Yale University, 1974

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Collaborative Artists' Grant, Duke University, 0 2014
• Nicholas Slonimsky Award, 43rd Annual ASCAP, Deems Taylor Awards, New York, November, 2011
• Deutscher Musikeditionspreis for Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, seine Musik, 2008
• Preis for "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, seine Musik", Deutscher Musikeditions, 0 2008
• Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation, New York, September, 2007
• National Humanities Center Fellowship, National Humanities Center, September, 2007
• Fellow, National Humanities Center, 0 2007
• Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 0 2007
• ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award, December 2006
• Arts & Sciences Professor of Music, Duke University, December 2005
• Fellow, John Hope Franklin Center, 2004 - 2005
• Research Council Grant, Duke University, 0 2005
• Fellow, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, 0 2004
• "Mendelssohn: A Life in Music," named Best Biography of 2003, Association of American Publishers, 0 2003
• Best Biography of 2003 for Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, Association of American Publishers, 2003
• Deutscher Musikeditionspreis for Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy, Elijah, Stuttgart, Carus Verlag, 1995, November, 1995
• Preis for edition of "Elijah" (Stuttgart, Carus Verlag), Deutscher Musikeditions, 0 1995
• ACLS Travel Grant, July, 1988
• Travel Grant, ACLS, July 1988
• Subvention for Mendelssohn-Schumann Essays (Duke University Press, 1984), American Musicological Society Publications Committee, 0 1984
• Subvention from the American Musicological Society Publications Committee for Mendelssohn-Schumann Essays, Duke University Press, 1984, 1984
• NEH Grant, International Mendelssohn-Schumann Conference, Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill, November, 1982
• Grant for the International Mendelssohn-Schumann Conference with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, National Endowment for the Humanities, 0 1982
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1981-1982
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mellon Foundation, 0 1981
• Cincinnati Country Day School Alumnus of the Year Award, November, 1980
• Alumnus of the Year Award, Cincinnati Country Day School, 0 1980
• Research Council Grant, Duke University, 0 1980
• Research Council Grant, Duke University, 0 1979
• Martha Baird Rockefeller Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, November, 1977
• Phi Beta Kappa, Yale College, 0 1974
• Concerto Competition Winner, Yale Symphony, 0 1972

Teaching (Fall 2024):

• Music 257.01, Music history iii Synopsis

  Biddle 104, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Teaching (Spring 2025):

• Music 554.01, Music classic era Synopsis

  Biddle 069, M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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• Todd, RL. "Rethinking Mendelssohn. Ed. by Benedict Taylor." Music and Letters 102.2 (December, 2021): 377-381. [doi]
• Todd, RL. "Rebecca Cypess and Nancy Sinkoff, eds, Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018), x + 292 pp. $99.00." Nineteenth-Century Music Review 17.3 (December, 2020): 477-481. [doi]
• Todd, RL. "Leipzig after Bach: Church & Concert Life in a German City." BACH 50.2 (2019): 308-313.

• Todd, RL. "Fanny hensel’s lieder (ohne worte) and the boundaries of song: The curious case of the lied in d major, op. 8, no. 3." The Songs of Fanny Hensel January, 2021: 217-238. [doi]  [abs]
• Todd, RL. "From the Church to the Concert Hall: J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, and the Imaginary Chorale." Theology, Music, and Modernity: Struggles for Freedom January, 2021: 109-128. [doi]  [abs]

   Master Classes:

• R. Larry Todd: Performances, 2000 - 2007, 2007/01/01
  with R. Larry Todd
• R. Larry Todd: Performances, 1990 - 1999, 1999/01/01
  with R. Larry Todd
• R. Larry Todd: Performances, 1982 - 1989, 1989/01/01
  with R. Larry Todd
• R. Larry Todd: Performances, 1972 - 1979, 1979/01/01
  with Susan R. Dunn; R. Larry Todd; R. Larry Todd

• Beethoven Cello Sonata in A, Op. 69, mvts III-IV , 2016/08/01
  with R. Larry Todd; Nancy Green
• R. Larry Todd: Chamber Music Performances, 2011, 2011/01/01
  with R. Larry Todd