Richard Kramer, Music
Distinguished Professor of Music, CUNY Graduate Center
RKramer@gc.cuny.edu
Richard Kramer writes on the music and aesthetics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is the author, most recently, of Unfinished Music (Oxford University Press, 2008). His Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song won the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Prize; a review essay on the Mozart sketches (Notes, Vol. 57/1, September 2000) won the Eva Judd O’Meara Award of the Music Library Association. Kramer was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2001. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and Vice President of the American Musicological Society. Kramer came to the Graduate Center in 1998, having previously taught at Stony Brook University, where he served as Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts.
Recent doctoral seminars include: Surfing the Enlightenment; After Enlightenment: Beethoven Inside Out; The Poetic Imagination: Schubert, Schumann and the Beginnings of Romanticism; Creative Copies and the Anxieties of Influence; Sketches, Fragments, Fantasy; On Late Style: an Interdisciplinary Expedition (with David Greetham, English); Hearing Mahler [Fall 2008].
