Benedict Taylor is Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (Cambridge, 2011), The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (Oxford, 2016), Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg’s Late Piano Music (RMA Monographs, 2016), and numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century music. The 2011 recipient of the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association, he has held fellowships at Princeton and Berlin and taught previously at Oxford as Lecturer in Music at Magdalen and Senior Research Fellow at New College.
Contact : b.taylor@ed.ac.uk
Séance - Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Franck 12.I.4 : Form in Mendelssohn’s late chamber music: Thematic, textural and timbral saliency in the Quartet op. 80 and Quintet op. 87
