Annette Richards is Professor of Music and University Organist at Cornell, and the Executive Director of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies. She is a performer and scholar with a specialty in 18th-century music and aesthetics, and interdisciplinary research into music, literature and visual culture. She is founding editor of Keyboard Perspectives, a yearbook dedicated to historical performance and keyboard culture, but her scholarly work extends far beyond the organ and its music. She is particularly interested in the music and music aesthetics of mid- to late-18th century Germany, and especially C. P. E. Bach. Her book The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque (Cambridge, 2001) explores the intersections between musical fantasy and the landscape garden in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century music across German-speaking Europe and England.

Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Annette Richards, “Listening to the Blind Virtuosa, Mademoiselle Paradis”

Cornell University Department of Music

“Ancient and Modern, c. 1773.” Music by Stanley, Purcell, Frescobaldi, Bach, and Scheidemann.

Midday Music for Organ: Annette Richards

Anabel Taylor Hall

As one of the first great music historians, Charles Burney met many of the most famous musical personages of his time, while actively seeking out “old music.” His tours across Europe in the early 1770s culminated in the writing of the four-volume A General History of Music, the first work of its kind in the English language and still an invaluable resource about the tastes and interests of late-eighteenth-century audiences.

In this recital, renowned keyboardists Annette Richards and David Yearsley take the listener through Burney’s travels as he might have done, recounting them to his friends and daughters during many an evening soirée. Enjoy both a geographical, as well as an organological tour, as Richards and Yearsley play music from Italy, Germany, and Spain on the organ, harpsichord, and fortepiano.

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Oct 31, 2024

Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Annette Richards, “Listening to the Blind Virtuosa, Mademoiselle Paradis” · Cornell University Department of Music

Oct 9, 2024

Midday Music for Organ: Annette Richards · Cornell University Department of Music

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