MusicFaculty Directory

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Music History

Antonius Bittmann

Department Chairman, Music history, organ

Antonius Bittmann, Department Chair, is in demand as guest lecturer, recitalist, and organ teacher at universities across the US. He holds a Ph.D. (Musicology), a D.M.A. (Organ), and an M.M. (Harpsichord) from the Eastman School of Music, as well as a B.M. and an M.M. (Organ) from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany. A founding member of the Internationale Max-Reger-Gesellschaft, Professor Bittmann has presented papers at national and international conferences and published articles in major music journals. His book, Max Reger and Historicist Modernisms (Koerner, 2004), presents the first comprehensive English-language account of the composer’s œuvre. As an organist, Professor Bittmann has received prizes and awards, including first prize at the Internationale Orgelwoche Nürnberg, and has been engaged for recitals in Europe and Japan. University Organist of Rutgers University, he is featured on several CDs and has recorded for German radio stations. His most recent CD, Peace of Heart (Songburst SBCD-1), features organ-accompanied sacred songs by a variety of American and European composers, including a song written by himself. In addition to his Rutgers duties, Professor Bittmann serves as visiting evaluator in institutional accreditation reviews conducted by the National Association of Schools of Music.

Office: Music Building 105 | Phone: 732-932-8860
Email: bittmann@rci.rutgers.edu


Floyd Grave

Music history

Trained at the Eastman School of Music (B.Mus. in Theory) and New York University (M.A. and Ph.D. in Musicology), Prof. Grave teaches undergraduate courses in music history and directs graduate seminars in musicology, style analysis, and the history of music theory. He currently serves as an associate editor of The Journal of Musicology, published by the University of California Press. As a researcher, he specializes in 18th-century music theory, style, and aesthetics. Coauthor of a research guide to the music of Joseph Haydn and a book on the teachings of the innovative theorist and composer Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814), he has edited a volume of Vogler's keyboard works and a volume of ballet music by Vogler and his Mannheim colleague Christian Cannabich. He is a contributing author for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and his articles and reviews of books and music have appeared in numerous scholarly journals. His most recent book, The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn, coauthored with Margaret Grave, is published by Oxford University Press.

Office: Graduate Music House 200D | Phone: 732-932-8849
Email: grave@rci.rutgers.edu


Rufus Hallmark

Music History

Hallmark joined the Rutgers faculty in 2002 and served as Chair of the Music Department till 2005. He was educated at Davidson College (B.A., Music), Boston University (M.A., Musicology), and Princeton (Ph.D., Musicology), and previously taught at Brown, M.I.T., College of the Holy Cross, and The Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, CUNY. Hallmark has published his dissertation, "The Genesis of Schumann's Dichterliebe" on the sketches for Robert Schumann’s song cycle, and many other studies of the songs of Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. He is the editor of, and a contributor to, "German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century" (1996). He will prepare Schumann's famous cycles "Frauenliebe und Leben" and "Dichterliebe" for the new complete critical edition of Schumann’s works. He has also written on the "Songs of Travel" of Ralph Vaughan Williams. He is active in the American Musicological Society, currently serving as its Secretary. Hallmark is also a singer (tenor); he has sung the Mozart roles of Tamino and Pedrillo, the Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion, and performed "Dichterliebe," Schubert’s "Winterreise," and Britten’s "Serenade."

Office: Grad Music House 200C | Phone: 732-932-8849
Email: hallmark@rci.rutgers.edu
Personal Website


Douglas Johnson

Music history

Prof. Johnson has degrees from Hamilton College (B.A.) and the University of California-Berkeley (M.A. and Ph.D.). He works on topics in 18th- and 19th- century music and has published widely on Beethoven, with special concentration on the composer's sketchbooks. He co-authored The Beethoven Sketchbooks with Alan Tyson and Robert Winter, which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award for the best book in musicology, presented by the American Musicological Society in 1986.

Office: Music 106 | Phone: 732-932-9220
Email: dojohnso@rci.rutgers.edu


Andrew Kirkman

Music history

Dr. Kirkman has a B.A. degree from Durham University and an M.Mus. and Ph.D. from Kings College, London. He has published and lectured widely on music of the 15th century. He has also directed recordings of Masses by Dufay for Hyperion Records, one of which won a Gramophone award for 1999. His book The Three- Voice Mass in the Later Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Style, Distribution and Case Studies is published by Garland. At Rutgers he directs the Collegium Musicum.

Office: GMH 200F | Phone: 732-932-6873
Email: kirkman@rci.rutgers.edu
Personal Website


George B. Stauffer

Music History

is Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Professor of Music History at Rutgers University. He is known internationally as a scholar, performer, and writer on the music and culture of the Baroque Era and the life and works of J.S. Bach in particular. Educated at Dartmouth College, Bryn Mawr College, and Columbia University, he has published several widely- cited and authoritative books. He has also contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Collier’s Encyclopedia, Early Music, Bach-Jahrbuch, and many other American, European, and Asian publications. As a speaker, he has lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Leipzig, National Sun Yat- sen University, and many other schools. As a performer, Stauffer studied organ with John Weaver and Vernon de Tar (Juilliard School). He served as University Organist and Chapel Music Director at Columbia University, where he appeared frequently in concert.

Office: MGSA Dean's Office | Phone: 732-932-9360
Personal Website

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