Robert Holzer
Through my classroom teaching I aim to help performers and composers better understand the context and structure of the music that engages them, while at the same time helping them to develop and express their own historical and analytic intuitions.
Robert Holzer
A specialist in the music of the Italian Baroque and the Second Viennese School, Dr. Robert Holzer received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He first taught at Yale in the Department of Music, then joined the School of Music faculty in 2005. A co-author of Volume 1 of The Oxford Anthology of Western Music, Holzer’s work has also been published in Cambridge Opera Journal, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music & Letters, Il saggiatore musicale, and Studi musicali. Hehas served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Musicology and Journal of the American Musicological Society and is a musical commentator for Radiotelevisione Italiana.
At the School of Music, Holzer teaches classes on music history, including “Approaches to the Classical Style,” “The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi,” and “The Music of Igor Stravinsky,” and oversees the second semester and colloquium of the DMA seminar. Previously, he served on the faculties of Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago.
