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
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.
Articles in Books
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
Other Activities:
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
