Bertil H. van Boer (born October 2, 1952) is an American
musicologist, composer, conductor and violist.
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Life and career
Bertil Hermann van Boer studied at the
University of California, Berkeley
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. He received his Master of Arts at the
University of Oregon
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and his PhD in Music History from
Uppsala University
Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in opera ...
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Selected bibliography
* Bertil van Boer: ''Die Werke von Joseph Martin Kraus
Joseph Martin Kraus (20 June 1756 – 15 December 1792), was a German-Swedish composer in the Classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Germany. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm. He has been referred ...
. Systematisch-thematisches Werkverzeichnis'', Stockholm: Kungl. Musikaliska akademien 1988
* Bertil van Boer: ''Dramatic Cohesion in the Music of Joseph Martin Kraus'', Lewiston 1989 (Studies in History and Interpretation of Music Number, Vol. 15)
* Bertil van Boer (ed.): ''Gustav III
Gustav III (29 March 1792), also called ''Gustavus III'', was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Prussia.
Gustav was a vocal opponent of what ...
and the Swedish Stage. Opera, Theatre, and Other Foibles'', Lewiston 1993 (Studies in History and Interpretation of Music Number, Vol. 40)
* Bertil van Boer: ''The Operas of Joseph Martin Kraus'', in: Gustavian Opera – Swedish Opera, Dance and Theatre 1771–1809, Stockholm 1991
* Bertil van Boer: ''Gustavian Opera: An Overview'', in: Gustavian Opera – Swedish Opera, Dance and Theatre 1771–1809, Stockholm 1991
* Bertil van Boer: ''The Case of the Circumstantial Meeting: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
and Joseph Martin Kraus in Vienna'', in: ''Eighteenth-Century Music'', vol.1 no. 1, Cambridge 2004 pp. 85–90.
* Bertil H. van Boer: ''Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period'', Scarecrow Press, 2012. .
* Bertil H. van Boer: ''The musical life of Joseph Martin Kraus
Joseph Martin Kraus (20 June 1756 – 15 December 1792), was a German-Swedish composer in the Classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Germany. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm. He has been referred ...
: letters of an eighteenth-century Swedish composer'', Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.
*Bertil van Boer: ''Music in the Classical World: Genre, Culture, and History,'' New York: Routledge, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315145570
References
External links
WorldCat Bertil H. van Boer
Western Washington University – Bertil H. van Boer
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American musicologists
Mozart scholars
Living people
1952 births
People from Tallahassee, Florida
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Uppsala University alumni