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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); Entrancing Muse: A Documented Biography of Francis Poulenc (New York: Pendragon Press, 2001); and Écrits sur la musique de Georges Auric/Writings on Music by Georges Auric, 4 vols. (Lewiston/Queenston/ Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009). He has also contributed articles to several editions of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 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). Dr. Schmidt has written two as yet unpublished books: The Story of Randall Thompson’s Alleluia Revisited: A Facsimile Edition with Commentary (ECS Publishing, Boston) and The Music of Georges Auric (1899-1983): A Documented Catalogue (Pendragon Press). In the field of American studies, he and his wife Elizabeth have embarked on a broad project involving the music of Randall Thompson. They are currently completing The Music of Randall Thompson (1899-1984): A Documented Catalogue and anticipate writing his biography. 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, Music and Letters, and a Harvard University Houghton Library Visiting Fellowship. Office: CA 2093 |
Carl Schmidt received his undergraduate degree with honors from Stanford University and his AM and Ph.D degrees from Harvard University. His principal teachers were Putnam Aldrich, John Ward, and Nino Pirrotta, and he studied with Elliot Forbes, David Hughes, and Randall Thompson. 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 the 20th century American composer Randall Thompson. 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. His article “The Unknown Randall Thompson: ‘Honkeytonk Tunesmith, Broadway Ivory-Tickler’” has recently been published in American Music (Fall 2009) and another article, “Francis Poulenc Robert Shaw: A Remarkable Symbiotic Relationship,” will appear shortly in The Musical Quarterly.