Richard A. Kramer

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Richard A. Kramer (* 1938 ) is an American musicologist who specializes in Beethoven .

Life

Kramer received his PhD from Princeton University in 1974 and then taught at Stony Brook University . Since 1998 he has been a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York .

For his publication Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song (1994) he received the renowned Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Kramer has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001 .

Works

  • Beethoven and Carl Heinrich Graun , in: Beethoven Studies , ed. by Alan Tyson , Volume 1, New York 1973, pp. 18-44
  • The Sketches of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas, Opus 30: History, Transcription, Analysis , 3 volumes, Ann Arbor 1974 (Diss., Princeton)
  • Notes to Beethoven's Education , in: Journal of the American Musicological Society , Vol. 28 (1975), pp. 72-101
  • An Unfinished Concertante of 1802 , in: Beethoven Studies , ed. by Alan Tyson, Volume 2, London 1977, pp. 20-65
  • On the Dating of Two Aspects in Beethoven's Notation for Piano , in: Contributions '76 -78. Beethoven Colloquium 1977. Documentation and Performance Practice , ed. from the Austrian Society for Music, Kassel 1978, pp. 160–173
  • Posthumous Schubert , in: 19th-Century Music, Vol. 14 (1990), pp. 197-216
  • Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: A Sketchbook from the Summer of 1800. Facsimile, with Transcription and Commentary , 2 volumes, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus Bonn, 1996
  • In Search of Palestrina : Beethoven in the Archives , in: Haydn , Mozart , & Beethoven: Studies in the Music of the Classical Period, Essays in Honor of Alan Tyson , ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, pp. 283-300
  • Beethoven's Opus 90 and the windows to the past , in: Beethoven and the reception of early music , ed. by Hans-Werner Kuethen, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 2002, pp. 93–119
  • Unfinished Music , Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (digitized)
  • Beethoven's String Quartets: Reflections on the Composition Process , in: Beethovens Chamber Music , ed. by Friedrich Geiger and Martina Sichardt (= Das Beethoven-Handbuch , edited by Albrecht Riethmüller , Volume 3), Laaber 2014, pp. 235–256

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Book of Members. (PDF) Accessed July 26, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Richard A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938