Walter Frisch
H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music Chair
Society of Fellows in Humanities
BA (Yale 1973)
MA (U. of California, Berkeley 1977)
PhD (1981)
Walter Frisch came to Columbia in 1982. His research interests lie in Austro-German music of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially that of Schubert, Brahms, Wagner, and Schoenberg. He is currently working on intersections of music and German modernism, 1885-1915. He received ASCAP Deems Taylor awards for his writings on music (1985, 1990); has been President of the American Brahms Society (1983-93), and Editor of the journal 19th-Century Music (1984-92).
Selected Publications:
ed. Schoenberg and His World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)
Brahms: The Four Symphonies (New York: Schirmer Books, 1996)
The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1907 (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1993)
Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1993)
ed. Brahms and His World (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1990)
ed. Schubert: Critical and Analytical Studies (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska Press, 1986)
articles in Critical Inquiry; Journal of the American Musicological Society; Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute; 19th-Century Music; Musical Quarterly
Graduate Courses Taught:
G8109-8110 Seminar in Historical Musicology: the Romantic Period (topics: Brahms; Music and Jugendstil; 19th-century Symphony; Symphonies of Mahler)
G8111-8112 Seminar in Historical Musicology: the 20th Century (topic: Early Works of Schoenberg)
G6105 Proseminar in Historical Musicology
Graduate/Undergraduate Courses Taught:
G4021 Schubert
G4102 The Music and Writings of Wagner
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
V3126 Music of the Modern Period
V3150 Music in fin-de-siècle Europe
V3360 Pre-tonal and Tonal Analysis
C1123 Music Humanities
