Frank Heidlberger

Associate Professor of Music Theory

• Excursion to Germany, May, 2004

• Publications

• Academic and Public Presentations and Lectures

• November 2003 International Berlioz Conference

Frank Heidlberger joined the College of Music Theory Division in the fall of 2001. He received the Magister Artium, Dr. Phil. and Dr. Habil degrees in Musicology at Würzburg University. Heidlberger was the assistant of research and teaching at Würzburg University (1988-1999) and an adjunct professor of music history at Würzburg Hochschule für Musik. In 1999 he received a Heisenberg scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft which enabled him to focus on manuscript studies at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. in 2000. In 2001 he was invited to Vienna University as a guest professor.  Heidlberger’s former activities include extensive research travels to Paris, Italy, London, Vienna and New York supported by several research grants and awards from DAAD, DFG, Würzburg University and the German Ministry of External Affairs. He received invitations for guest-lectureships in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, the U.S., and South Africa.

Heidlberger's interests in teaching and research of western music history include the history of music theory and performance practice of the middle ages and renaissance, romantic and modern opera, music aesthetics of the nineteenth century and techniques of composition in the twentieth century as well as opera-dramaturgy, music journalism and the role of the new media in contemporary musical life.  He received particular interest regarding his books on Carl Maria von Weber (1994), Hector Berlioz (1995), the Italian instrumental music of late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (2000) and Weber's piano music (2001).  Heidlberger has published articles and reviews in major journals and contributed to the new edition of "Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart" dictionary.  As the Vice President of the International Carl Maria von Weber Society he recently created an exhibition on Weber and the Clarinet which was shown at the Ruhr Festival of Music and at Detmold College of Music in 2001.

He is currently working on critical editions of the works by Carl Maria von Weber (clarinet concertos), Giacomo Meyerbeer (early opera) and the writings of Hector Berlioz (German translation). Heidlberger is also active as a  clarinet and saxophone player with a special interest in contemporary music. He recently produced a CD with compositions for computer, synthesizer and woodwinds.

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