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Single-Authored Books

• Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times (2020).
• Wagner’s “Parsifal” (2013).
  
• The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtág (2012).
• Beethoven (second expanded edition, 2009).
  
• Mozart’s Piano Music (2006).
• Artaria 195: Beethoven’s Sketchbook for the “Missa solemnis” and the Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 109 (2003).
  • Interactive website on the genesis of op. 109, movt. II
• Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (revised edition, 1999).

Edited and Co-Edited Volumes

• Beethoven the European. Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception, co-edited with Malcolm Miller (2022).
• Folk Music as a Fermenting Agent, Past and Present, co-edited with Bianca Temes (2019).
• Utopian Visions and Visionary Art: Beethoven’s ‘Empire of the Mind’ – Revisited (Vienna, 2017).
• Special Double Issue of Journal of Musicological Research on “New Beethoven Research” (vol. 32, nos. 2-3, 2013).
• Genetic Criticism and the Creative Process: Essays from Music, Literature, and Theater, co-edited with Joseph E. Jones (2009).
• The String Quartets of Beethoven (2006).
• A Companion to Wagner’s “Parsifal,” co-edited with Katherine Syer (2005).
• The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality, co-edited with Harald Krebs (1996).
• Beethoven’s Compositional Process (1991).

Recent Essays (see CV for full list)

Available for Download

• “Recentering Music: Sketch Studies, Analysis, and Genetic Criticism,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Creative Process in Music, ed. Nicholas Donin (New York: Oxford U Press, 2019).
• “From Death in Venice to The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann’s Ironic Response to Wagner,” The Wagner Journal 12 (2018), 56-73.
• “Flea Circus on the Keyboard, or Beethoven in Auerbach’s Cellar: Political Satire in Beethoven,” in Blumenlese für Bernhard R. Appel, ed. Julia Ronge and Jens Dufner (Bonn, 2015), 55-66.
• “Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations: Its Autograph Score and Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations,” Arietta 8 (November 2013): 5-11.
• “Genetic Criticism as an Integrating Focus for Musicology and Music Analysis,” Revue de musicologie 98 (2012): 15-42.
• “The Evolution of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations,” commentary to facsimile edition of the autograph score and first edition, with texts in English and German (Beethoven-Haus and Carus, 2010), 2:46-72.

Other Recent Essays

• “Intersections of biography, analysis, and performance,” in Cognate Music Theories: The Past and the Other in Musicology, ed. Ignacio Prats-Arolas (New York: Routledge, 2024), 88-99.
• “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as a Disputed Symbol of Community: From Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus to the Brexiteers of 2019,” in Beethoven the European: Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception, ed. Malcolm Miller and William Kinderman. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022 (Speculum Musicae, 48), 3-22.
• “Beethoven at Heiligenstadt in 1802: Deconstruction, Integration, and Creativity,” in The New Beethoven: Evolution, Analysis, Interpretation, ed. Jeremy Yudkin (University of Rochester Press, 2020), 148-60.
• “The Conception and Realization of the New Beethoven Museum in Vienna/Heiligenstadt,” The Beethoven Journal 32 (2018), 52-61.
• “Authorship and Collaboration in New Music,” in proceedings of the conference “Wessen Klänge?” (Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel), ed. Matthias Kassel (2017).
• “Music Scholarship and Politics in Munich, 1918-1945,” in This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl, ed. Victoria Levine and Philip Bohlman (Scarecrow Press, 2015), 102-12.
• “Capricious Play: Veiled Cyclic Relations in Brahms’s Ballades op. 10 and Fantasies op. 116,” in Festschrift for Roger Kamien, ed. Yosef Goldenberg and David Beach (University of Rochester Press, 2015), 115-31.
• “Schiller’s ‘Play Drive’ in Beethoven’s Creative Process,” in Genèse Musicales: Méthodes et Enjeux, ed. Nicolas Donin, Amuth Grésillon, and Jean-Louis Lebrave (Paris, 2015), 131-44.

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