Overview
Ph.D., Harvard University. Author of books and articles on late 19th-and early 20th-century German music. Specialties include Richard Strauss, Anton Bruckner, Kurt Weill, Erich Korngold, 19th and 20th-century German opera, fin-de-siècle Vienna, film music, German musical aesthetics.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor Emeritus of Music
·
2020 - Present
Music,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Bass Fellow
·
2009 - Present
Music,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Zoë Alexis Lang. The Legacy of Johann Strauss: Political Influence and Twentieth-Century Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 248.
Journal Article Austrian History Yearbook · April 2015 Full text CiteRounding Wagner's mountain: Richard Strauss and modern German opera
Book · January 1, 2014 Richard Strauss’ fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner’s operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss’s works were based on texts by Europe’s finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Ho ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
International Conference on Richard Strauss
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 1989 - 1990International Conference on Richard Strauss
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 1989 - 1989View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Harvard University ·
1984
Ph.D.
Harvard University ·
1978
M.A.
University of Cincinnati ·
1975
B.A.