Music Department Faculty

Jeremiah McGrann

Professor of the Practice

Department

Music

Biography

Jeremiah W McGrann is a musicologist and pianist. His dissertation on the sketchbook for Beethoven's Mass in C led to a commission from the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn to create the critical edition of the Mass in C, Opus 86 for the complete edition of Beethoven's works (Henle, 2004). He has written further on the Mass in C, most recently "'Aber lieber Beethoven, was haben Sie den wieder da gemacht': Observations on the Performing Parts for the Premiere of Beethoven鈥檚 Mass in C, Op. 86" in the Lewis Lockwood Festschrift The New Beethoven: Evolution, Analysis, Interpretation (2020). He has extended his work to write on the liturgical background of Haydn's late masses, a brief history of music at 艾可直播 College, and provided record liner notes for Penelope Crawford's recording of Beethoven's last piano sonatas (Musica Omnia 2010). He has lectured for the Handel & Haydn Society in 艾可直播 and at the European Music Festival in Stuttgart Germany and has spoken on a range of topics including Mozart, C茅sar Franck, music in 艾可直播 and other aspects of American music. He maintains a presence in the concert hall as producer and as a solo pianist, recently as accompanist in Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte.听 听

Publications

Books

  • Beethoven. Messe C-Dur, Opus 86. Beethoven Werke Abteilung VIII Band 2. Munich: G. Henle, 2004. A critical edition of Beethoven's Mass in C published under the auspicies of the Beethoven Haus, Bonn, as part of the new complete edition of Beethoven's works. Study score, G. Henle 2005; performing edition, Breitkopf & H盲rtel, 2007

Articles

  • "'Aber lieber Beethoven, was haben Sie den wieder da gemacht': Observations on the Performing Parts for the Premiere of Beethoven鈥檚 Mass in C, Op. 86" in The New Beethoven: Evolution, Analysis, Interpretation ed. Jeremy Yudkin (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2020), 205-227.
  • "Tune-full: The true story of 鈥楩or 艾可直播鈥" 艾可直播 College Magazine Vol. 74 no. 4 (Fall 2014), 12-13.
  • "Musical Themes from the History of 艾可直播 College" Pamphlet distributed at听 Sesquicentennial Concert at 艾可直播 Hall, Saturday March 23, 2013.
  • "Haydn, a Prince, and Beethoven's Mass in C" Choral Journal 50 no. 2 (2009), 8-23.
  • "Der Hintergrund zu Beethovens Messen" Bonner Beethoven-Studien, 3 (2003). 119-138.
  • "An Exegesis of the Kyrie from Beethoven's Mass in C, Opus 86" Religion and the Arts, 2:2 (1998), 182-220.
  • "Of Saints, Name Days and Turks: Some Background on Haydn's Masses Written for Prince Nikolaus II Esterh谩zy" Journal of Musicological Research 17 (1998), 195-210. rpt. in Haydn ed. David Wyn Jones. The Late Eighteenth-Century Composers. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2015

Recordings (liner notes)

  • "The Variety of a Limited Genre" Mozart: Complete Music for Two Fortepianos.听 Penelope Crawford and Nancy Garrett, fortepianos.听 Musica Omnia MO 0305 (2012).
  • "Magnificent Landscapes: A Journey through Beethoven's Last Piano Sonatas" "Magnificent Landscapes" Beethoven's Last Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110, 111. Penelope Crawford, fortepiano.听 Musica Omnia MO 0308 (2010).

Public Lectures

  • 鈥淭he History & Uses of 鈥楳y Country 鈥楾is of Thee鈥欌 艾可直播 College November 2018
  • 鈥淭he History and Use of 鈥榊ankee Doddle鈥欌 艾可直播 College October 2018
  • 鈥淐茅sar Franck: The Art of Music, the Music of Art鈥 Gallery Lecture 艾可直播 College, McMullen Museum of Art November 2017
  • 鈥淭he Human Brain is Not For Sale: Beethoven鈥檚 Moral Legacy鈥 艾可直播听University Center for Beethoven Research December 2016
  • 鈥湴芍辈 Composers: Music in the Gilded Age鈥 A Lecture-Recital 艾可直播 College March 2014
  • 鈥淎 Lesson in 艾可直播 Psalmody鈥 A Lecture-Recital 艾可直播 College November 2013
  • 鈥淰erdi 200th: A Celebration for Giuseppe Verdi鈥檚 Bicentenary鈥 艾可直播 College October 2013
  • 鈥淗ow Beethoven Came to 艾可直播鈥 艾可直播 College May 2012
  • 鈥淏eethoven鈥檚 Mass in C鈥 Newton Choral Society Concert, West Roxbury, November 2011
  • Romanticism and the Night鈥斺淔inding Meaning in Chopin鈥檚 Nocturnes鈥 艾可直播 College 2009
  • 鈥淏eethovens Kirchenmusik鈥澨 European Music Festival, Stuttgart Germany, September 2002
  • "The Creatures of Prometheus & Beethoven's Symphony No. 5" Handel & Haydn Society Concert, 艾可直播, February 2000
  • "Language and Class in Mozart's Die Zauberfl枚te" 艾可直播 College 1999
  • "The Enlightened Beethoven" Handel & Haydn Society Concert, 艾可直播, October 1998
  • "The Message of Mozart's Coronation Mass"听 艾可直播 College 1996
  • "Mozart and Beethoven's Unwritten Requiem" 艾可直播 College 1991
  • "The Kyrie of Beethoven's Mass in C: A Study in Genesis and Exegesis" Harvard University 1991

Program Notes

  • 鈥淏eethoven鈥檚 Mass in C鈥 Newton Choral Society Concert, West Roxbury, November 2011
  • "The Enlightened Beethoven" Handel & Haydn Society Concert (program notes), 艾可直播, October 1998

Concerts

  • 艾可直播 College, 2022:听 Producer, Performer鈥"Beethoven 250+2"
  • 艾可直播 College, 2018:听 Producer鈥"Homage a Claude Debussy鈥
  • 艾可直播 College, 2014:听 Producer, Lecturer, Performer鈥斺湴芍辈 Composers: The Rise of American Music in the Gilded Age鈥
  • 艾可直播 College, 2013:听 Producer, Lecturer鈥斺淎 Lesson in 艾可直播 Psalmody鈥
  • 艾可直播 College, 2013:听 Producer, Lecturer, Performer鈥斺淎merica 1863: Songs from Kate Chadwick鈥檚 Songbook鈥
  • 艾可直播 College, 2011:听 Pianist (solo recital)鈥擬ozart, Clementi & Liszt.
  • 艾可直播 College, 2009: Producer鈥斺淗aydn 200鈥
  • 艾可直播 College, 2009: Producer, Lecturer, Performer鈥斺Long, Long Ago: Music & Poetry of the Civil War鈥
  • 艾可直播 College, 2005:听 Producer鈥"A Baroque Rediscovery, Giovanni Battista Beria听Concerti musicali 1650)"
  • 艾可直播 College, 2005:听 Producer鈥斺A Single, Bright Beam鈥擬usic of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel鈥
  • 艾可直播 College, 2004:听 Pianist鈥擝eethoven Trio Op. 70 No 1
  • 艾可直播 College, 2002:听 Conductor鈥擲aint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
  • 艾可直播 College, 1997:听 Pianist鈥擝eethoven, Horn Sonata
  • 艾可直播 College, 1996:听 Producer鈥斺淐elebrating Clara Schumann鈥
  • 艾可直播 College, 1995:听 Conductor鈥擩 S Bach, Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor
  • 艾可直播 College, 1993:听 Accompanist鈥擟oncert "Music by Women Composers"
  • 艾可直播 College, 1992:听 Pianist (solo recital)鈥擫iszt, Harmonies po茅tiques et religieuses

Links

Musical Themes from the History of 艾可直播 College

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The True Story of "For 艾可直播"

Students Return a Forgotten Score to the Baroque Repertory

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