Stephen Hefling
Stephen E. Hefling (* 20th century) is an American music and Mahler researcher.
Life
Hefling earned degrees from Harvard and Yale (1985) with his dissertation on Gustav Mahler's death celebration . He is Professor Emeritus of Music at Case Western Reserve University and has taught at Stanford and Yale Universities and Oberlin College Conservatory .
Hefling has authored numerous articles and book chapters for Musical Quarterly , 19th Century Music , the Journal of Musicology , and Music Theory, the revised Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , and numerous books on Gustav Mahler.
He discovered Mahler's manuscript version of Das Lied von der Erde for voices and piano and published this work for the Critical Complete Edition (Vienna, 1989, rev. 2012). Hefling is Vice President of the International Gustav Mahler Society in Vienna and Co-Director of the New Critical Mahler Complete Edition .
For his work on Mahler, Hefling has received grants from the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the Freedman Foundation, the Kaplan Foundation, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society, as well as a Morse Junior Faculty Fellowship at Yale University.
He was a speaker at international conferences on the composer in Vienna, Paris, Hamburg, Rotterdam, New York, Montpellier, London, Guildford and Boulder. As a specialist in baroque performance practice, Hefling has performed with numerous early music ensembles in the northeastern United States and was director of the Collegium Musicum Yale and the Cleveland Baroque Soloists.
Web links
- Literature by and about Stephen Hefling in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Stephen Hefling in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Internet presence at http://music.case.edu
- Profile on http://mahlerfest.org
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hefling, Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hefling, Stephen E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |