Lecture: Andrew H. Weaver on Romantic-Schumann & Mendelssohn

Thu 02/13/2025

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Andrew H. Weaver is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Yale University and a B.Mus. in musicology and viola performance from Rice University. A specialist in nineteenth-century German song and seventeenth-century music at the Habsburg court in Vienna, his books include Narrative and Robert Schumann’s Songs: A New Approach to the Romantic Lied (University of Rochester Press, 2024), A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Brill, 2021), and Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III: Representing the Counter-Reformation Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years’ War (Ashgate, 2012). He also co-edited the volume Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC: Works, Politics, Performances (University of Rochester Press, 2020). His work, which has been supported by grants from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the American Musicological Society, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, also appears in such journals as Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Music & Letters, Journal of Musicology, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Early Music, Schütz-Jahrbuch, Journal of Musicological Research, Journal of the American Viola Society, and more.

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Time 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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