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R. Larry ToddR. Larry Todd

Title: Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor
Office Location: 081 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC
Office Phone:
Email Address: rltodd@duke.edu
Web Page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHtVIzlDeuQ
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 554.02, Music classic era Synopsis
    Biddle 069, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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    Articles
  • 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


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