R. Larry Todd

Office Hours:

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

Education

• PhD Yale University, 1979
• MPhil Yale University, 1977
• BA Yale College, 1974

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• 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 2008):

• Music 157.01, Mus hst iii: after 1850 Synopsis

  Biddle 069, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• Music 226.01, Music 19th century (top) Synopsis

  Biddle 069, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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• R. Larry Todd. ""Fanny Hensel's Op. 6 No. 1 and the Art of Musical Reminiscence"." Nineteenth-Century Music Review 4.2 (2007).

• R. Larry Todd. ""Mendelssohnian Allusions in the Early Piano Works of William Sterndale Bennett"." The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture. Edited by Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg. Ashgate 2007: 101-18.
• R. Larry Todd. ""Die Matthäus-Passion--Widerhall und Wirkung in Mendelssohns Musik"." Zu groß, zu unerreichbar: Bach-Rezeption im Zeitalter Mendelssohn und Schumanns. Edited by Anselm Hartinger, Christoph Wolff, and Peter Wollny. Breitkopf & Haetel 2007: 79-97.

• R. Larry Todd, Florestan Trio (Hyperion Label) recording of the Mendelssohn Piano Trios. Nineteenth-Century Music Review  (2007).
• R. Larry Todd, Mendelssohn, Die erste Walpurgisnacht, facsimile of the autograph piano-vocal score, ed. Hiromi Hoshino, Tokyo, 2005. Music Library Association Notes  (2007).

   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

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