Associate Professor of Musicology
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John Michael Cooper
Associate Professor of Musicology |
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| B.M., M.M., Florida State University; Ph.D., Duke University. Prof. Cooper's research interests include nineteenth-century music, source studies, historiography, and political history. He specializes in Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Richard Strauss, and is also an active scholar concerning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practice. A Fulbright scholar, he has published articles, reviews, and translations in Notes, Early Music, Nineteenth-Century Music, and elsewhere. He is the author of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Guide to Research, with an Introduction to Research concerning Fanny Hensel (New York: Routledge, 2001), and editor, with Julie D. Prandi, of The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Professor Cooper is active as editor of unknown and little-known works by Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel, with several editions, performances, and CDs to his credit. Most recently, he edited the first complete version (1830-33) of Mendelssohn's setting of Goethe's ballad Die erste Walpurgisnacht, which received its posthumous premiere with the Amor Artis Orchestra and the Fairfield County Chorale in March 2003. He also edited Mendelssohn's Große Festmusik zum Dürerfest in Nürnberg (1828) for its posthumous premiere, given by the Amor Artis Chorus and Orchestra in New York City in May 2002. He is the general editor of a three-volume facsimile edition of the complete sources for Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony, and of the first edition of the revised version of that work (Wiesbaden: Ludwig-Reichert-Verlag, 2001). With Prof. Mark McKnight, Prof. Cooper directed the Legacies conference held at UNT in October 2001 in celebration of the quincentennial of Petrucci's Odhecaton and the accomplishments of Helen Hewitt, one of the early luminaries of UNT's musicology faculty. |