Glenn Stanley is a music historian specializing in the music of the classic and
romantic periods in German-speaking Europe. He has published extensively in
American, British, and German journals and books with special emphasis on
Beethoven and German music and music life in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. He also writes on questions of aesthetics, methodology, and music
criticism and contributed three articles to the revised New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians in these areas. (See the University of Connecticut music department
website for a complete list of his publications.) He edited volumes 3 and 7 of
Beethoven Forum, a scholarly yearbook, and also edited the Cambridge Companion
to Beethoven. Stanley is currently the editor of the College Music Symposium and
was the book-review editor for 19th-century Music and a member of the editorial
boards of Beethoven Forum and the Journal of the American Musicological Society.
He writes program notes for Carnegie Hall on a regular basis. He has organized
international conferences on Beethoven at UConn (1993) and at Carnegie Hall
(1996). In 1997 he was Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Humboldt University in
Berlin and in the academic year 2001–2002 taught at the University of Salzburg.
Stanley has just returned from a year in Berlin, Germany, where he was a visiting
professor at the Free University and conducting research on Beethoven’s opera
Fidelio. Recent projects include several essays on Mendelssohn that will appear in
German publications and essays on Beethoven’s orchestration techniques and the
reception of Fidelio for the multi-volume Beethoven-Handbuch, which will be
published by the Laaber-Verlag in Germany.
Stanley joined the University of Connecticut in 1990, after teaching at Columbia
University and McGill University. At UConn he is the Minors advisor in the Music
Department and the Coordinator of the Undergraduate Concentration in Music
History. Stanly has received several Provost’s grants for creating new courses in the
General Education curriculum: American Popular Music and Diversity (collaborating
with Alain Frogley) and Music and Nature for the honors program. During the
academic year 2009–2011 he was fellow at the UConn Humanities institute.