Department of Music Lecture: Jonathan Kregor, Professor of Music, Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
"Beethoven's Priestess of Biedermeier Offering? Clara Wieck in Vienna"
"It was during her extended stay in Vienna that the young Clara Wieck became a superstar, with salons vying for her presence, critics fawning over her performances, and even bakers naming cakes after her. But the concerts she gave during the 1837-38 season in the Imperial City are of historical importance as well, since they mark some of earliest efforts to revitalize older music. Of these performances, none was more scrutinized than her rendition of Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata, and a healthy dose of poetry, music, and criticism was produced to memorialize the event. This paper considers these materials against the changing image of Beethoven during the Biedermeier period, particularly as that image impacted the idea of the virtuoso, the performer as "priest," recital repertoire choices, and Wieck's own position therein."
Jonathan Kregor
Jonathan Kregor is a musicologist specializing in nineteenth-century music. His research interests include aesthetics, Franz Liszt, musical reproductions, music and memory, virtuosity and gender, and art songs. He has published articles and reviews in The Journal of Musicology, The Musical Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Journal of Musicological Research, Journal of the American Liszt Society, and Notes; and has presented at numerous national and international conferences. He is a recipient of fellowships from the German Historical Institute and the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik.
Dr. Kregor is the author of Program Music (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Liszt as Transcriber (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which won the Alan Walker Book Award from the American Liszt Society, and editor of volumes of C.P.E. Bach's keyboard music (Packard Humanities Institute) and Clara Schumann's unpublished arrangements for solo piano (A-R Editions). He became editor of the Journal of the American Liszt SocietyJin 2012.
Ph.D., Harvard University; CCM since 2007.
