Lenox — On the occasion of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birth anniversary, Boston University Center for Beethoven Research co-director Jeremy Yudkin will give a multimedia talk on the life and music of arguably the greatest composer of all time Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 5:30 p.m. from the Lenox Library via Zoom.
Professor Yudkin will explain why this 18th-century student of Joseph Haydn deserves to have his own research center. “Beethoven’s work,” the professor explains, “is of such a stature that it warrants constant reviewing and research. “We’re dealing here with a genius of the highest purpose, someone on a par with William Shakespeare.”
Jeremy Yudkin is professor of music, co-director of the Center for Beethoven Research, associated faculty of the department of African American studies, associated faculty of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, and former chair of the department of musicology and ethnomusicology at Boston University. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in classics and modern languages from Cambridge University in England and his doctorate in historical musicology from Stanford University. He is the author of 10 books, including “From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings” (2020) and “Understanding Music” (Prentice Hall, 1996, 2016). He edited the just-published 550-page volume “The New Beethoven.” He also researched and published the first-ever book on the Lenox School of Jazz (2006).
Yudkin has written articles for the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Musica Disciplina, Speculum, Notes, the Musical Quarterly, Early Music, American Music, and Music and Letters as well as the Salisbury Review, Berkshire Living, the Stanford Italian Review, and the American Journal of Philology.
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Click here at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 16, to join Jeremy Yudkin’s lecture on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven. Donations gratefully accepted.
