Nicholas Mathew
Assistant Professor
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202 Morrison Hall
(510) 642-2682
email: nicholas.mathew@berkeley.edu
Nicholas Mathew was born in Norfolk, England, in 1977. He took his first degree in music at Oxford University, concurrently studying the piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. After that, he began his doctorate at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he also studied period pianos with Malcolm Bilson. Before joining Berkeley, Nicholas spent three years as a Research Fellow in Music at Jesus College, Oxford.
His research to date has focused on music and politics, enlightenment and romantic aesthetics, musical life in Napoleonic Vienna, and the theory and practice of historically informed performance.
Recent publications: "History Under Erasure: Wellingtons Sieg, the Congress of Vienna, and the Ruination of Beethoven's Heroic Style," Musical Quarterly 89/1 (2006); "Beethoven and His Others: Criticism, Difference, and the Composer's Many Voices," Beethoven Forum 13/2 (2006); "Heroic Haydn, the Occasional Work, and 'Modern' Political Music," Eighteenth-Century Music 4/1 (2007).
Last updated 2/25/2008