Steven Vande Moortele

Biography

Steven Vande Moortele (PhD University of Leuven) is Professor of Music Theory and Director of the Centre for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Music. Research interests include theories of musical form, the analysis of large-scale instrumental music from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, and the music of Wagner and Schoenberg. He is the author of Robert Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust (Leuven 2020), The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner (Cambridge 2017), and Two-Dimensional Sonata Form: Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky (Leuven 2009), as well as co-editor (with Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers and Nathan Martin) of Formal Functions in Perspective: Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno (Rochester 2015). He has won awards including the Wallace Berry Award (SMT, 2018), the Roland Jackson Award (AMS, 2019), and the Westrup Prize (Music & Letters, 2020), and his research has been supported by the Connaught Fund of the University of Toronto, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Bonn, Germany), and the Research Fund Flanders (FWO Vlaanderen), as well as by multiple grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Current projects include editing a volume of Wagner Studies for Cambridge University Press and a SSHRC-funded research project on sonata form in European concert music between 1815 and 1914 (in collaboration with Julian Horton and Benedict Taylor). Vande Moortele is an affiliate faculty member of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies; he was a guest professor at the University of Leuven in the spring of 2018.