David BrodbeckRobert and Marjorie Rawlins Chair of Music Professor, Music |
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Research Interests |
Central European music of the 19th and early 20th centuries (especially Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák, Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg); analysis and criticism; rock music | |
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Research Abstract |
David Brodbeck's research focuses on Central European music of the 19th and early 20th centuries and Anglo-American popular music of the past fifty years. He has published on a wide range of nineteenth-century topics, ranging from the dances of Schubert and the sacred vocal music of Mendelssohn to various aspects of Brahms’s music. Much of his work on Brahms, in particular, has explored connections between biography and analysis. His book on the composer’s First Symphony, for example, addresses issues of genesis, extra-compositional allusion, and autobiographical content, concerns that are central, too, to his published essays on Brahms’s youthful studies in counterpoint and later large-scale chamber works. His current research focuses on the intersection of music, politics, and constructions of social identity in the reception of new music in late Habsburg Vienna. |
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| Publications |
Books Brahms: Symphony No. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Brahms Studies. Edited by David Brodbeck. 3 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995–2001. Critical Editions Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Hymne, op. 96. Edited by David Brodbeck. Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, 1998. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Psalmen, op. 78. Edited by David Brodbeck. Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, 1998. Selected Articles and Reviews “The Symphony after Beethoven after Dahlhaus,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony, edited by Julian Horton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press. “Ausgleichs-Abende: The First Viennese Performances of Smetana’s Bartered Bride.” Austrian Studies 17 (2009), in press. “Hanslick’s Smetana and Hanslick’s Prague.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 134 (2009), 1–36. “Brahms, the Third Symphony, and the New German School.” In Brahms and His World, 2nd rev. ed, edited by Walter Frisch and Kevin Karnes, pp. 95–116. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. “Dvorák’s Reception in Liberal Vienna: Language, National Property, and the Rhetoric of Deutschtum.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 60 (2007), 71–131. “On Some Enigmas Surrounding a Riddle Canon by Brahms.” Journal of Musicology 20 (2003), 73–103. “Medium and Meaning: New Aspects of the Chamber Music.” In The Cambridge Companion to Brahms, edited by Michael Musgrave, pp. 98–132. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. “Brahms’s Mendelssohn.” In Brahms Studies, vol. 2, edited by David Brodbeck, pp. 209–31. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. “Brahms.” In The Nineteenth-Century Symphony, edited by D. Kern Holomon, pp. 224–72. New York: Schirmer Books, 1996. “The Brahms-Joachim Counterpoint Exchange; or, Robert, Clara, and ‘the Best Harmony between Jos. and Joh..’” In Brahms Studies, vol. 1, edited by David Brodbeck, pp. 30–80. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. “Eine kleine Kirchenmusik: A New Canon, a Revised Cadence, and an Obscure ‘Coda’ by Mendelssohn.” Journal of Musicology 12 (1992), 179–205. “A Winter of Discontent: Mendelssohn and the Berliner Domchor.” In Mendelssohn Studies, edited by R. Larry Todd, pp. 1–32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. “Some Notes on an Anthem by Mendelssohn.” In Mendelssohn and His World, edited by R. Larry Todd, pp. 43–64. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. “Brahms, the Third Symphony, and the New German School.” In Brahms and His World, edited by Walter Frisch, pp. 65–80. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. “Brahms’s Edition of Twenty Schubert Ländler: An Essay in Criticism.” In Brahms Studies: Analytical and Historical Perspectives, edited by George S. Bozarth, pp. 229–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. “Primo Schubert, Secondo Schumann: Brahms’s Four-Hand Waltzes, Op. 39.” Journal of Musicology 7 (1989), 58–80. Review of Johannes Brahms Thematisch-Bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis, by Margit L. McCorkle. Journal of the American Musicological Society,52 (1989), 417–30. Review of The Music of Brahms, by Michael Musgrave. Journal of Musicology 7 (1989) 403–14. “Compatibility, Coherence, and Closure in Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes.” In Explorations in Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Essays in Honor of Leonard B. Meyer, edited by Eugene Narmour and Ruth A. Solie, pp. 411–37. Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1988. “Dance Music as High Art: Schubert’s Twelve Ländler, Op. 171 (D. 790).” In Schubert: Critical and Analytical Studies, edited by Walter Frisch, pp. 30–47. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. “Dissociation and Integration: The First Movement of Beethoven’s Opus 130” (with John Platoff). 19th-Century Music 7 (1983/84), 149–62. |
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| Grant | He is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Philosophical Society. | |
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Professional Societies |
American Musicological Society Society for American Music American Brahms Society German Studies Association |
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| Other Experience |
Professor of Music University of Pittsburgh 1999—2005 |
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Associate Professor of Music University of Pittsburgh 1993—1999 |
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Assistant Professor of Music University of Pittsburgh 1987—1993 |
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Assistant Professor of Music University Southern California 1984—1987 |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5238 | |
| Last updated | 08/18/2009 | |