Professor Simon Keefe
Department of Music
The University of Sheffield
Jessop Building
34 Leavygreave Road
Sheffield
S3 7RD
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 0472
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 0469
email : s.keefe@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
Simon Keefe took up the James Rossiter Hoyle Chair of Music (and the position as Head of Department) in April 2008, having previously been Professor and Head of Music at City University London. Born in Leicester in December 1968, Simon is a graduate of Cambridge, Boston and Columbia Universities and has held lectureships at Christ Church Oxford (1997-99) and at Queen's University, Belfast (1999-2003). His primary research area is late 18th-century music, especially Mozart, but he also has research interests in 20th-century French popular song, Wagner, and the concerto genre. He has published seven books as author or editor since 2001, including most recently The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music (2009); his monograph Mozart’s Requiem: Reception, Work, Completion is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2012. In 2005, Simon was elected to life membership of the Salzburg-based Akademie für Mozart-Forschung of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum (as the only British member). He serves as the General Editor of the Royal Musical Association monographs series (published by Ashgate), is on the editorial/advisory boards of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (Routledge), Eighteenth-Century Music (Cambridge), Mozart-Jahrbuch (Bärenreiter) and Humanities (Basel: MDPI Verein), and is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College. Non-musical interests include football, golf, and tennis; he is a life-long (and long-suffering) fan of Aston Villa FC.
Research Interests
- Mozart
- Late 18th-Century Style and Aesthetics
- Haydn, Beethoven
- 20th-Century French Song
- The Concerto
- Wagner
Current Project
- Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791: a Musical Biography of a Performer-Composer
Selected Publications
Mozart’s Requiem: Reception, Work, Completion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (forthcoming).
(Sole Editor) The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xviii + 826pp.
`"We hardly knew what to pay attention to first": Mozart the Performer-Composer at Work on the Viennese Piano Concertos´, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 134/2 (2009), pp. 185-242.
`"Die Ochsen am Berge": Franz Xaver Süssmayr and the Orchestration of Mozart´s Requiem K. 626´, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 61 (2008), pp. 1-65.
Mozart´s Viennese Instrumental Music: A Study of Stylistic Re-Invention. Woodbridge and Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press, 2007, xii + 217pp.
(Sole Editor) Mozart Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
(Joint Editor with Cliff Eisen) The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, xxv + 662pp.
(Sole Editor) The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, xii + 309pp.
(Sole Editor) The Cambridge Companion to Mozart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, xviii + 292pp.
`Sophisticated Simplicity: Text and Music in the Early Songs of Georges Brassens´, Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie, 7/1 (2002), pp. 11-23.
Mozart's Piano Concertos: Dramatic Dialogue in the Age of Enlightenment. Woodbridge and Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press, 2001, x + 205pp.
(with Terry Keefe) `Sartre's Wagner´, The Musical Times, 137 (Dec. 1996), pp. 9-11.