William Andrew Kinderman (born 1 November 1952) is an American author and music scholar who plays the piano.

Life

Born in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

, Kinderman studied music and philosophy at Dickinson College in

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; (Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Ma ...

and later the same subjects at the

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817. With a student body of over three thousa ...

and the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich h ...

. He studied musicology at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

and

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He held a professorship at the

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary insti ...

British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include ...

, Canada, has taught at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Uni ...

and currently is professor and inaugural Leo and Elaine Krown Klein Chair of Performance Studies, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

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 ...

Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

. He has also written on the creative process in music, and on literary subjects including Thomas Mann. His composition for piano, Bee v has received performances and recordings.

Books

* ''Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations.'' Oxford:

Clarendon Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, 1987 (Diss., Berkeley, Calif., University of California, 1980). * ''Beethoven’s Compositional Process''.

University of Nebraska Press The University of Nebraska Press, also known as UNP, was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books. The press is under the auspices of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the Uni ...

, Lincoln/Nebraska 1991. * ''Beethoven.'' on

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print book ...

, 1995. * ''The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality''. on University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln/Nebraska 1996. * ''Artaria 195: Beethoven’s Sketchbook for the ‘Missa solemnis’ and the Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 109.'' 3 volumes,

University of Illinois Press The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is an American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system. Founded in 1918, the press publishes some 120 new books each year, plus 33 scholarly journals, and several electronic projec ...

, Urbana 2003 (with Katherine Syer). * ''A Companion to Wagner’s Parsifal.'' Camden House, Rochester/New York 2005. Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times. University of Chicago Press, 2020. German edition as Beethoven. Ein politischer Künstler in revolutionären Zeiten. Vienna: Molden Verlag, 2020. * *

Essays

* ''Die Diabelli-Variationen von 1819. Die Skizzenbefunde zu op. 120. Eine Studie zum kompositorischen Schaffensprozess.'' In: ''Zu Beethoven. Aufsätze und Dokumente 2.'' edited by Harry Goldschmidt, Berlin 1984, . * ''Integration and Narrative Design in Beethoven's Piano Sonata in As Major, opus 110'', in ''Beethoven forum'', vol. 1 (1992), . * ''Anton Schindler as Beethoven's Biographer: New Evidence from the Sketchbooks.'' In ''Kunstwerk und Biographie. Gedenkschrift Harry Goldschmidt.'' Edited by Hanns-Werner Heister, Berlin 2002, . * ''The Great and the Small, the Tiny and the Infinite. Aesthetic Experimentation in Beethoven’s Known and Unknown Bagatelles'', in ''Musik und Biographie. Festschrift für Rainer Cadenbach.'' edited by Cordula Heymann-Wentzel and Johannes Laas, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, , * ''Beethoven’s Unfinished Piano Trio in F minor from 1816: A Study of its Genesis and Significance.''''Beethoven’s Unfinished Piano Trio in F minor from 1816: A Study of its Genesis and Significance''
/ref> In ''Journal of Musicological Research.'' Volume 25, 2006, . * ''Die Skizzenbücher Beethovens.'' In ''Ästhetische Erfahrung und Edition.'' Edited by Rainer Falk and Gert Mattenklott, Tübingen 2007, .

References

External links

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Home Page

Biography on the page of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinderman, William 1952 births Living people People from Philadelphia Beethoven scholars University of Victoria faculty University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty 20th-century American musicologists 21st-century American musicologists