R. Larry Todd

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
• Fellow, National Humanities Center, September, 2007
• Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 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
• 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

Recent Professional Work:

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• Uhde, K; Eshbach, RW; Babyak, T; Todd, RL. "Joseph Joachim: Intersections between Composing and Performing." Nineteenth Century Music Review 22.1 (April, 2025): 1-3. [doi]
• Todd, RL. "Beyond Virtuosity: Joachim, the Mendelssohn Circle, and the Illusion of Three Hands." Nineteenth Century Music Review 22.1 (April, 2025): 93-122. [doi]  [abs]
• Uhde, K; Todd, RL. "I'm Workin' on My Buildin: Freedom and Foundation-Building in Florence Price's Two Violin Fantasies." Journal of the Society for American Music 17.3 (August, 2023): 243-260. [doi]  [abs]

• Todd, RL. "Fanny and Felix’s Musical Relationship." Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn in Context January, 2025: 41-48. [doi]  [abs]
• Todd, RL. ""Worthy of Serious Attention" The Chamber Music of Amy Beach." CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AMY BEACH 2023: 121-153.

   Master Classes:

• R. Larry Todd: Performances, 2000 - 2007, 2007/01/01
  with R Todd
• R. Larry Todd: Performances, 1990 - 1999, 1999/01/01
  with R Todd
• R. Larry Todd: Performances, 1982 - 1989, 1989/01/01
  with R Todd
• R. Larry Todd: Performances, 1972 - 1979, 1979/01/01
  with Susan Dunn; R Todd

• Beethoven Cello Sonata in A, Op. 69, mvts III-IV, 2016/08/01
  with R Todd; Nancy Green
• R. Larry Todd: Chamber Music Performances, 2011, 2011/01/01
  with R Todd