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 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 ...

, and

Schumann Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...

, 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 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 ...

from 1963 to 2005, he is now a member of the emeritus faculty. He is the brother of philosopher

Alvin Plantinga Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic. From 1963 to 198 ...

and theologian Cornelius Plantinga. 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