Date/Time
Wed, Sep 10, 2025
4:30 pm EDT - 6:00 pm EDT
The 2025–2026 season of Encounters with Eighteenth-Century Music will open with a panel discussion addressing the variety of challenges that arise when editing critical editions. Jason B. Grant (moderator) will be joined by panelists Bruce Alan Brown, Paul Corneilson, Drew Edward Davies, and Nancy November.
Registration:
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Bios:
Bruce Alan Brown (PhD 1986, University of California, Berkeley), Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Southern California, specializes in later eighteenth-century opera and ballet, in particular the music of Gluck and Mozart. His publications include Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna (Oxford, 1991); the critical report for Mozart, Idomeneo (ed. Daniel Heartz), in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (2005); critical editions (Kassel: Bärenreiter) of Gluck’s Le Diable à quatre (1992), L’Arbre enchanté (Versailles version, 2010; Viennese version. 2015), and Cythère assiegée (1759 version, in preparation); W. A. Mozart: Così fan tutte (Cambridge, 1995); The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage (ed., with Rebecca Harris-Warrick; Madison, WI, 2005); and numerous articles. From 2005 to 2007 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and he served as President of the Mozart Society of America from 2019 to 2023. He is a member of the editorial board of the Gluck-Gesamtausgabe (Mainz) and of the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung (Salzburg).
Paul Corneilson is managing editor for the Packard Humanities Institute, including Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works (2000–2024) and Johann Christian Bach: Operas and Dramatic Works (2020 to the present). After earning his PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1992), he worked on Recent Researches in Music at A-R Editions (1993–99), and commissioned the five-volume set, Ballet Music from the Mannheim Court. He has published articles and essays in Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Early Music, Current Musicology, BACH: Journal of the Riemenscheider Bach Institute, Bach-Jahrbuch, Mozart-Jahrbuch, Mozart-Studien, The Cambridge Companion to Mozart and Mozart in Context (both edited by Simon Keefe). He is also author of a two-act play, Hector & Felix, and The Autobiography of Ludwig Fischer: Mozart’s First Osmin (published by the Mozart Society of America). He edited several volumes in CPEB:CW, including the five St. John Passions; an opera seria by Gian Francesco De Majo, Ifigenia in Tauride; and Christian Cannabich, Ballet Music Arranged for Chamber Ensemble. He is currently working on a critical edition of J.C. Bach’s Temistocle, having completed editions of four other works by the composer: Lucio Silla, Zanaida, Amor vincitore, and most recently Orione, ossia Diana vendicata.
Drew Edward Davies, professor of musicology at Northwestern University, specializes in early modern church music from New Spain and Mediterranean Europe. He serves as Academic Coordinator of the Seminario de música en la Nueva España y el México Independiente (Musicat) in Mexico City and President of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music (2021-2025). Among his publications are Forging Repertories: Cathedral Music in New Spain and Its Performance (Oxford University Press, 2024), critical editions of Manuel de Sumaya, Santiago Billoni, and Ignacio Jerusalem, and thematic catalogues of the music archives of Durango and Mexico City cathedrals.
Nancy November is a Professor of Musicology in the University of Auckland’s School of Music. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research centres on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship (2010–12) and three Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society. Recent publications include Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and Haydn Studies 2 is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press this year.