John Deathridge

John Deathridge has been King Edward Professor of Music since 1996, when he joined the Department from the University of Cambridge. He has also taught at the Universities of Princeton and Chicago and continues to be active as a performer and regular broadcaster. In 2005 he was elected President of the Royal Musical Association.<br /> <br /> John Deathridge&rsquo;s main research interests are German music, in particular Richard Wagner, and social theory. His groundbreaking work on Wagner is reflected in his book on Rienzi (Oxford 1977) and three collaborative publications, The New Grove Wagner (with Carl Dahlhaus), the WWV: Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen (with Martin Geck and Egon Voss), and the Wagner Handbook (with Ulrich M&uuml;ller and Peter Wapnewski). He is also co-editor of a new critical edition of Lohengrin which appeared as an Eulenburg score in 2007, and the author of Wagner Beyond Good and Evil (Berkeley 2008).

Wagner, 19th- and 20th-century German opera; Adorno and critical theory; music historiography.