David Schroeder

Musicology (University Research Professor and Professor Emeritus)

AMus, BA, MA (Western), PhD (Cantab)

E-mail: David.Schroeder@dal.ca
Phone: 494-2418
 
Biography: Dr. David Schroeder's books include Our Schubert: His Enduring Legacy (Scarecrow, 2009), Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film (Continuum, 2002), Mozart in Revolt: Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception (Yale University Press, 1999), and Haydn and the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 1990). His numerous articles on Berg, Schubert (criticism and performance issues), Haydn, Mozart, and the Enlightenment have appeared in journals such as The Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Musical Quarterly, Music and Letters, Mosaic and The Music Review.

Most recently, he has been invited to speak at Lincoln Center in New York, at the Caixaforum in Barcelona, and on BBC Radio 3.  His many invited lectures and conference papers have been given in Canada, USA, UK, Germany, Spain and Hungary. His current research interest is in a combination of film studies and music, and is supported by a Standard Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, with the title “The Musical Impulse in Hitchcock's Films.”