Dr. Steven Vande Moortele

Biography

Steven Vande Moortele holds a PhD from the University of Leuven and is a Professor of Music Theory at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Music. His research interests include theories of musical form and the analysis of large-scale instrumental music from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, along with studies on composers such as Wagner and Schoenberg. Vande Moortele has authored significant works including 'Robert Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust' (Leuven 2020), 'Romantic Overture Musical Form: Rossini Wagner' (Cambridge 2017), and 'Two-Dimensional Sonata Form: Cycle Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky' (Leuven 2009). He has co-edited several volumes, such as 'Formal Functions Perspective: Essays on Musical Form: Haydn Adorno' (Rochester 2015). His awards include the Wallace Berry Award (SMT, 2018), Roland Jackson Award (AMS, 2019), and Westrup Prize (Music & Letters, 2020). Vande Moortele has received research support from various prestigious institutions including the Connaught Fund at the University of Toronto and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn, Germany. Currently, he is involved in editing a volume on Wagner Studies for Cambridge University Press and leading a SSHRC-funded research project on sonata form in European concert music between 1815 and 1914. He has also served as a guest professor at the University of Leuven.

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