William Kinderman
William Andrew Kinderman (born November 1, 1952 in Philadelphia ) is an American musicologist and pianist .
Life
Kinderman studied music and philosophy at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and later in Vienna the same subjects at the University of Music and the local university . He studied musicology at Yale University and the University of California at Berkeley . He was a professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia , Canada , and now teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . His research focuses on Beethoven , Mozart and Wagner .
Books
- Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987 (Diss., Berkeley, Calif., University of California, 1980) .
- Beethoven's Compositional Process. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / Nebraska 1991.
- Beethoven. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995.
- The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / Nebraska 1996.
- Artaria 195: Beethoven's Sketchbook for the 'Missa solemnis' and the Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 109. 3 volumes, University of Illinois Press, Urbana 2003 (with Katherine Syer).
- A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal. Camden House, Rochester / New York 2005.
- William Kinderman (Ed.): The String Quartets of Beethoven . University of Illinois Press, Urbana 2006, ISBN 0-252-03036-2 .
- Mozart's piano music . Oxford University Press, New York, NY 2006, ISBN 0-19-510067-0 .
Essays
- The Diabelli Variations from 1819. The sketch findings for op. 120. A study of the compositional creative process. In: Beethoven. Articles and documents 2nd ed. By Harry Goldschmidt , Berlin 1984, pp. 130–162.
- Integration and Narrative Design in Beethoven's Piano Sonata in As Major, opus 110 , in: Beethoven forum , Vol. 1 (1992), pp. 111-145.
- Anton Schindler as Beethoven's Biographer: New Evidence from the Sketchbooks. In: Artwork and biography. Commemorative Harry Goldschmidt. Edited by Hanns-Werner Heister , Berlin 2002, pp. 313–323.
- The Great and the Small, the Tiny and the Infinite. Aesthetic Experimentation in Beethoven's Known and Unknown Bagatelles , in: Music and Biography. Festschrift for Rainer Cadenbach. Edited by Cordula Heymann-Wentzel and Johannes Laas, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, pp. 179–196, ISBN 3-8260-2804-X
- Beethoven's Unfinished Piano Trio in F minor from 1816: A Study of its Genesis and Significance. In: Journal of Musicological Research. Volume 25, 2006, pp. 1-42.
- Beethoven's sketchbooks. In: Aesthetic Experience and Edition. Edited by Rainer Falk and Gert Mattenklott, Tübingen 2007, pp. 151–174.
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SURNAME | Kinderman, William |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kinderman, William Andrew |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musicologist and pianist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |