Leon B. Plantinga is an American musicologist specializing in music of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His writings have influenced scholarship on Clementi, Beethoven, and Schumann, and his textbook ''Romantic Music'' continues to serve as a standard textbook on nineteenth-century music in American universities. Having served as a faculty member of the Department of Music at Yale University from 1963 to 2005, he is now a member of the emeritus faculty. He is the brother of philosopher Alvin Plantinga and theologian

Cornelius Plantinga Cornelius "Neal" Plantinga Jr. (born 14 February 1946 in Jamestown, North Dakota) is an American theologian. He most notably served as president of Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 2002 through 2011.

. He is the author of ''Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance.'' (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. [xi, 403 p. + 1 booklet of music examples, 108 p. )Review in ''Notes'', March 1, 2000
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List of books

* ''Schumann As Critic'' (Yale University Press, 1967) * ''Clementi: His Life and Music'' (Oxford University Press, 1977) * ''Romantic Music'' (W.W. Norton, 1984) * ''Beethoven's concertos: History, style, performance'' (W.W. Norton, 1999)

References

Faculty profile at Yale University

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Plantinga, Leon American musicologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Yale University faculty Schumann scholars