AGiD Session 6
Briony Cox-Williams: Rethinking Sentimentality in Victorian Song Many of the songs written in Britain during the Victorian era, particularly those by women, have been dismissed… Read More »AGiD Session 6
AGiD Session 5
Christopher Parton: Maria Theresia Paradis and Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Blindness The life of the blind Viennese musician Maria Theresia Paradis (1859-1824) has become more widely… Read More »AGiD Session 5
AGiD Session 4
Stephen Rodgers: Gathering Leaves: Pauline Decker and the Limits of the Song Cycle In the 19th century, song offered women composers a socially sanctioned medium… Read More »AGiD Session 4
AGiD Session 3: The Musical Afterlife of Ophelia. Art Song, Madness, and the Female Voice
Jennifer Tipton: A Document in Death and Madness: Nineteenth-Century Art Song Settings of Ophelia’s Death This lecture examines the nineteenth-century fascination with Shakespeare’s Ophelia as… Read More »AGiD Session 3: The Musical Afterlife of Ophelia. Art Song, Madness, and the Female Voice
AGiD Session 2
Frithjof Bömcke-Vollmer: Beethoven, the Anti-Heroic? Broken Gestures and Gender in “An die ferne Geliebte” op. 98 (1816) When Ludwig van Beethoven completed his “Liederkreis” An… Read More »AGiD Session 2
AGiD Session 1
Susan Youens: Editing Erotomania at the Mid-Century Mark: Schumann’s “Geisternähe” On July 18, 1850, Schumann composed his only setting of a text by Eligius Franz… Read More »AGiD Session 1