Angela R. Mace, Musicology

Angela R. Mace

Dissertation title: Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and the Formation of the "Mendelssohnian" Style. Advisor: R. Larry Todd.

Office Location:  042 Mary Duke Biddle Music Building
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://duke.academia.edu/AngelaMace

Education:

Advance to CandidacyDuke University2009
MADuke University2008
BMusVanderbilt University2006
Specialties:

Musicology
Keyboard
Areas of Interest:

- Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hensel
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Late Classicists/Early Romantics
- German music in Victorian England
- 19th-century early music revival
- International pedagogical traditions
- Influence, allusion, quotation

Representative Publications

  1. Nicole Grimes and Angela R. Mace, Mendelssohn Perspectives (Forthcoming, 2011), Ashgate Press
  2. Angela R. Mace, review of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Die erste Walpurgisnacht, First complete version of 1832-33, ed. John Michael Cooper (Recent Researches in Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, 2008), Nineteenth Century Music Review, vol. 7 no. 2 (August, 2010)
  3. Angela R. Mace, review of Mendelssohn in Performance, ed. Siegwart Reichwald, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, vol. 7 no. 1 (July, 2010)
  4. R. Larry Todd and Angela R. Mace, Mendelssohn and the Free Chorale, Choral Journal, vol. 49 no. 9 (March, 2009), pp. 49-69.
  5. Angela R. Mace and R. Larry Todd, Verzeichnis der Werke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys, in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, Seine Musik (August, 2008), pp. 719-746, Carus-Verlag/Reclam, Stuttgart.
  6. J. Michael Cooper, revised and enlarged by Angela R. Mace, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Guide to Research, 2nd ed. (2011), Routledge. [available here]
Selected Performances

  1. Felix Mendelssohn's piano accompaniments to J. S. Bach's Chaconne in D (BWV 1004) and Prelude in E (BWV 1006), May 04, 2010, Durham, NC. Duke University.    
  2. Hensel, Mendelssohn, and Schumann lieder, April 14, 2009, Durham, NC. Duke University.    
  3. Solo organ recital, Early Romantic Organ Music, December 08, 2008, Durham, NC. Duke University Chapel.    
  4. J. S. Bach, Partita in B-flat Major, BWV 825: Sarabande, harpsichord, April 20, 2007, Durham, NC. Duke University.    
  5. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas K. 165 and K. 166, fortepiano, December 1, 2006, Durham, NC. Duke University.    
Selected Other

  1. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Liederbuch für Cécile, February 3, 2009, New York, New York [org]    
Selected Conferences

  1. The Emergence of Fanny Hensel and the ‘Henselian’ Style, June 24, 2011, 9th Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin    
  2. Unterschiede in Kompositionen von Fanny Hensel und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Differences in the Compositions of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy), March 12, 2011, written and read in German, with extensive musical examples performed at the piano. Studientag zu Fanny Hensel und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Study Day for Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy). Mendelssohn-Remise, Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.    
  3. Improvisation, Elaboration, Composition: Reinterpreting the Classical Piano Concerto through the Romantic Cadenza, November 18, 2010, Basel, Switzerland    
  4. The Mendelssohns and the Mystery of the "Easter Sonata", July 8-11, 2010, Southampton, United Kingdom [19c_conference.shtml]    
  5. Mendelssohn, Bartholomew, and the 'Elijah' Correspondence, Reconsidered, April 29, 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts    
Selected Grant Support