Scott Burnham
Scott Burnham has taught in the Music Department of Princeton University since 1989. He served as Chair of the Music Department from 2000 to 2008, and he is currently Scheide Professor of Music History. His best-known book is Beethoven Hero (Princeton, 1995); he also translated A. B. Marx, Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven (Cambridge, 1997) and co-edited Beethoven and His World (Princeton, 2000). Other publications have appeared in a variety of books and journals, including Cambridge Companions to Beethoven, to Haydn, and to Schumann, The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, Musical Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Beethoven Forum, and The New Grove Encyclopedia of Music. Earlier this year, Ashgate Press released Sounding Values, a collection of 18 of Burnham’s essays from the past two decades.
