Julian Horton
Email: julian.horton@durham.ac.uk
Julian Horton is Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at Durham University. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he subsequently held a Research Fellowship, and has taught at University College Dublin and King’s College London. For six years, he served as President of the Society for Music Analysis. He has also served on the Council of the Royal Musical Association and is a Corresponding Member of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. His research focuses on nineteenth-century instrumental forms, with special interests in the music of Bruckner, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, the concerto, the symphony, and the New Formenlehre. He is author of Bruckner’s Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics (Cambridge University Press 2004) and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83: Analytical and Contextual Studies (Peeters 2017), editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony (2013), and co-editor of Irish Musical Studies, Vol. 11: Irish Musical Analysis (Four Courts Press, 2014), Schubert’s Late Style (Cambridge University Press 2016), Rethinking Schubert (Oxford University Press 2016) and British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought 1850–1950 (Boydell 2017). He has recently published on the musicological role of analysis in Musical Quarterly, on Mendelssohn’s Melusine Overture in Music Theory Spectrum, and on the modulating ritornello in the Romantic piano concerto in Music Analysis, part of a special issue on sonata typology co-edited with Peter H. Smith. His book Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto Op. 54 is shortly to be published by Cambridge University Press; he is writing The Symphony: A History, also for Cambridge.