Department of Music : Faculty

David B. Levy, Professor, 1976-

Email: levy@wfu.edu
Phone: (336) 758-5364
Office: M310 Scales Fine Arts Center

BM, MA (Eastman), PhD/musicology (Rochester). NDEA Title IV fellow (1969-71), Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst fellow (1971-72) for study in Munich at Ludwig Maximillians Universität. NEH Summer Seminar at New York University (1988). Listed in Who's Who in American Music. Author of Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony (Schirmer Books, 1995; revised edition, Yale University Press, 2003). Research on Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, music history and criticism in the nineteenth century. Contributor to Berlioz Studies, Dictionnaire Berlioz, Beethoven Forum, Essays on Music for Charles Warren Fox, 19th-Century Music, CMS Symposium, Historical Performance, and Music Library Association Notes; musicological/artistic advisor, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (2002-03 season), program annotator for Winston-Salem Symphony. Member of American Beethoven Society (advisory board), American Musicological Society (SE Chapter chairman, 1984-86, 2008-2010; representative to Council, 1981 83), College Music Society; Endowed Chair in Musicology, University of Alabama (January 19-23, 2009). Teaches Music History, Beethoven, First Year Seminars, and Introduction to Western Music; Summer Graduate School Faculty, Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY). Chair, WFU Department of Music (1994-2006).