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 Carl Schmidt received his undergraduate degree with honors from Stanford University and his masters and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. His principal teachers were Putnam Aldrich, John Ward, and Nino Pirrotta. He was also a conducting and harmony student of Nadia Boulanger (Fontainebleau, France). He has written extensively on seventeenth-century Italian and French opera and ballet, on members of the French Groupe des Six, and is currently involved in work on a 20th century American composer. His research and reviews have been published in numerous American and foreign journals including Journal of the American Musicological Society, Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Music Library Association Notes, Harvard Library Bulletin, Journal of Musicology, Penn Sounds, Dix-septième siècle, "Recherches” sur la Musique française classique, and Current Musicology. He was awarded the Music Library Association 1988 Prize for the Best Article-Length Bibliography or Article on Music Librarianship.
His books include: An Index to Jean Laurent Le Cerf de La Viéville’s Comparaison de la Musique Italienne et de la Musique Françoise (Geneva, Switzerland: Éditions Minkoff, 1993); The Livrets of Jean-Baptiste-Lully’s Tragédies-lyriques: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Performer’s Editions, 1995); The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): A Catalogue (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995); and Entrancing Muse: A Documented Biography of Francis Poulenc (New York: Pendragon Press, 2001). He has also contributed articles to several editions of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, to Festschriften for Nino Pirrotta and James R. Anthony, and to volumes on Lully (Cambridge Univ. Press, Georg Olms, and Laaber Verlag), Poulenc (Ashgate), and Cesti (Quaderni della Rivista Italiana di Musicologia). His major music editions include Antonio Cesti, Il Pomo d’oro (Music for Acts III and V from Modena, Biblioteca Estense Ms. Mus. E. 120. Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 42 (Madison: A-R Editions, Inc., 1982, performed in Vienna, summer, 1989); Francis Poulenc, Sonate pour Flûte et Piano (London: Chester Music, 1995); co-editor of Quare fremuerunt gentes in Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Collected Works, vol. IV/5 - Grand Motets (New York: The Broude Trust for Musicological Publications, 1996); two motets by Henry Du Mont (Broude Brothers); Poulenc, Quatre Poëmes de Max Jacob (Paris: Éditions Salabert, 1997, recorded by François Le Roux and Charles Dutoit); Poulenc, Suite Française arranged for Cello and Piano (Paris: Éditions Durand, 1997, recorded by Cecylia Barczyk and Reynaldo Reyes); and Poulenc’s earliest extant work, Trois pastorales pour piano (Paris: Heugel (Alphonse Leduc), 2004). This work was given its modern-day American premier by Sandrine Erdely-Sayo in 1994 and its European premier by Noël Lee in Paris during December 2003. Dr. Schmidt is currently working on the music of Georges Auric and Randall Thompson. Future Auric publications include two books: The Music of Georges Auric (1899-1983): A Documented Catalogue, and "Ceci dit:" Notes justes de Georges Auric (a volume of Auric’s musical criticism). In the field of American studies, he has embarked on a broad project involving the music of his former teacher Randall Thompson. Two books on Thompson are in progress: The Music of Randall Thompson (1899-1984): A Documented Catalogue and a volume of Thompson’s correspondence. He further plans to edit Lully’s Roland for Jean-Baptiste Lully: Œuvres complètes. A former Chairperson of the Towson University Music Department, Dr. Schmidt teaches general survey courses for non-majors, classes for the Honors College, and upper-division music history classes for music majors including specialty courses on Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the Arts in Paris, Igor Stravinsky, Symphonic Literature, and the Music of the Romantic Period. He lectures widely in the Baltimore-Washington area, serves on the Board of Directors of The Handel Choir of Baltimore, and has been the recipient of significant grants from various universities, the American Council of Learned Societies, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Harvard University Houghton Library Visiting Fellowship: 2005-06. Before coming to Towson, Schmidt taught at Wabash College (IN), Bryn Mawr College (PA), and The University of the Arts (PA). He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Office: CA 2093 |