R. Larry Todd
| Title: | Arts & Sciences Professor of Music |
| Office Location: | 081 Mary Duke Biddle |
| Office Phone: | +1 919 660 3326 |
| Email Address: | rltodd@duke.edu |
- Office Hours:
- Wednesdays & Fridays: 9:45 a.m. - 11 a.m. or by appointment.
Education
- PhD Yale University, 1979
- MPhil Yale University, 1977
- BA, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa Yale College, 1974
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Deutscher Musikeditionspreis for Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, seine Musik, February, 2009
- Deutscher Musikeditionspreis for Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, seine Musik, November, 2008
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation, New York, September, 2007
- National Humanities Center Fellowship, National Humanities Center, September, 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
- Best Biography of 2003, Association of American Publishers, 2003
Teaching (Fall 2009):
- Music 49s.02, First-year seminar (top)
Synopsis
- Biddle 086, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- Music 168.01, Piano music
Synopsis
- Biddle 069, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
Teaching (Spring 2010):
- music 125.01, Listen to music: eur/amer trad
Synopsis
- Music 226.01, 19th century orchestral music
Synopsis
- Biddle 069, M 11:55 AM-02:25 PM
- Ls 280.14, Emancipation of music
- Biddle 104, M 06:15 PM-08:45 PM
Recent Professional Work:
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- R. Larry Todd. Fanny Hensel, the Other Mendelssohn. Oxford University Press, 2010 (xxviii+426pp. pp.). (with supplementary web page at www.oup.com/us/fannyhensel)
- R. Larry Todd and Angela R. Mace. "Mendelssohn and the Free Chorale." American Choral Journal (March, 2009): 49-69.
- R. Larry Todd. ""Mache mich ein wenig Lärm vor"." Die Welt am Sonntag (February 1, 2009): Kultur 62-63.
- R. Larry Todd, ed.. Mendelssohn Bartholdy Bärenreiter Urtext: Lieder ohne Worte. Bärenreiter, 2009 (xviii+213pp. pp.).
- Frieder Bernius. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Oedipus in Kolonos, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius, conductor. Carus Verlag, 2009 .
Performances:
- Mendelssohn-Fanny Hensel Liederabend, October 21, 2007
A concert of solo Lieder, duets, and piano music of Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel, with Penny Jensen and Mary Gayle Greene (Appalachian State University). The concert was given at Appalachian State on October 21 and at Duke on October 28. The program included the world premiere of a Lied ohne Worte I reconstructed from Mendelssohn's fragmentary autograph at the Bodleian Library. An on-line review by John Lambert appeared in Classical Voice of North Carolina (http://cvnc.org/reviews/2007/102007/Mendelssohn.html) - Performances, February 03, 2006
Performance of Mendelssohn's Allegro brillant Op. 92 and selected pieces from the Midsummer Night's Dream Incidental Music Op. 61 with Jane Hawkins on a two-piano concert, Baldwin Auditorium