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(Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992); Professor K. M. (“Kay”) Knittel taught at Seton Hall University before joining the music history faculty at UT-Austin in 2001. Her research interests include Beethoven, Mahler, reception history and theory, 19th Century European history, German nationalism, Jewish studies, history of antisemitism, and biography. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, 19th Century Music, and Beethoven Forum. The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music, to which she contributed the Beethoven chapter, appeared in Fall 2001.

In 1999, she received an NEH Fellowship for Seeing Mahler, Hearing Mahler. This book, currently in progress, will be a study of the reception of Mahler and his music seen against the backdrop of Viennese antisemitism at the turn of the century. Portions of the book have been presented at the American Musicological Society meetings in Minneapolis and Kansas City and at the International Musicological Society 1997 meeting in London. This project has also received support from the Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), based in Jerusalem.

Selected Publications:

• “Pilgrimages to Beethoven: Reminiscences by his Contemporaries,” Music & Letters, forthcoming, 2003.

• “Chapter 5: The Construction of Beethoven,” in The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music, ed. Jim Samson, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

• “Beethoven as History,” Review of Tia DeNora, Beethoven and the Construction of Genius; and David B. Dennis, Beethoven in German Politics 1870-1989, in Beethoven Forum 8 (2000): 177-194.

• “Wagner, Deafness, and the Reception of Beethoven’s Late Style,” Journal of the American Musicological Society, 51/1 (Spring 1998): 49-82.

• “Imitation, Individuality, Illness: Behind Beethoven’s Three Styles,” Beethoven Forum 4 (1995): 17-36.

• “‘Ein hypermoderner Dirigent’ : Mahler and Anti-Semitism in fin-de-Siecle Vienna,” 19th Century Music 18/3 (1995): 256-276.