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Michael Musgrave
Ong Teng Cheong Visiting Professor in Music 2012/2013
Michael Musgrave is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of London, Visiting Research Fellow at the Royal College of Music, and serves on the graduate faculty of the Juilliard School, New York, where he currently resides. He studied first as pianist and organist at the Royal College of Music and subsequently in the field of musicology at the University of London and privately with F.W.Sternfeld and John Caldwell. His field of research is 19th and early 20th Century German music, and English concert life in the same period. He is author and editor of six books on Brahms, including (with Bernard D. Sherman) ‘Performing Brahms. Early Evidence of Performance Style’ (2003): this won the 2003 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Best Research in Recorded Classical Music. His biography of Robert Schumann in the CUP Musical Lives series appeared in 2011. In English music, he is author of ‘The Musical Life of the Crystal Palace’ (1995), and editor of the centenary assessment of the founder of ‘Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians’: ‘George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture’ (2003). He is a member of the Verein of the ‘Johannes Brahms Gesamtasugabe’, for which he has edited the two orchestral serenades op.11 and op.16 (2006), and these works and the two orchestral overtures in Brahms’s arrangements for four hands (forthcoming 2012); other editions include the ‘Liebeslieder Waltzes’ of Brahms in different versions for Carus Verlag and Edition Peters, and the Schumann Piano Concerto, also for Peters (2009). He is a contributor to The New Grove 2, the Dictionary of National Biography and the Times Literary Supplement. He received the Fellowship of the Royal College of Music in 2005. |
