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Bryan Gilliam

Professor Emeritus of Music
Music
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
067 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708

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

In the News


Published May 26, 2015
Music's Bryan Gilliam's book nominated for Kurt Weill Prize
Published April 10, 2014
Bryan Gilliam comments: Richard Strauss and Dresden, a bond unbroken

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Recent Publications


Rounding 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 Cite
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Recent Grants


International Conference on Richard Strauss

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 1989 - 1990

International Conference on Richard Strauss

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 1989 - 1989

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Education, Training & Certifications


Harvard University · 1984 Ph.D.
Harvard University · 1978 M.A.
University of Cincinnati · 1975 B.A.