J. Michael Cooper joined the Sarofim School of
Fine Arts faculty in 2006 as the Margarett Root Brown Chair
in Fine Arts. Prior
to his appointment at Southwestern he was on the faculty of the
University of North Texas. His research interests include 19th-
century music, source studies, historiography and political history,
specializing in Mendelssohn, Schumann, Berlioz, and Richard Strauss.
A Fulbright scholar, Dr. Cooper has published writings in Early
Music, Nineteenth-Century Music, and elsewhere. Performances
and CD recordings of his editions of unknown and little-known
works by Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel have earned him a
place at the forefront of the community of scholars of 19th-century
music. Most important among these are a facsimile edition of
the complete autograph sources of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony,
the first complete edition of the revised version of that work
(Wiesbaden, 1997 and 2001), the first source-critical editions
of Mendelssohn's Op. 69 and Op. 78 Motets (Kassel, 2006), and
a new Urtext edition of Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus/St. Paul
(Kassel, 2007). Dr. Cooper is also the author of Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy: A Guide to Research (New York, 2001) and Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony
(Oxford, 2003). His latest book, Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the
Walpurgis Night: The Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700-1850,
was published by the University of Rochester Press in May 2007.
He is also the recent recipient of two awards from The Florida
State University College of Music: the 2007-2008 Warren D. Allen
Faculty Citation for Excellence in Scholarship, and holder of
the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Chair in Musicology. • tel
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