The Catholic University of America

Faculty Member, Music

Associate Professor and Chair of Musicology

Benjamin T. Rome School of Music

About

A specialist in music of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in Austria, Germany, and Italy, Andrew H. Weaver (Ph.D., M.Phil., Yale University; B.M., Rice University) has also published on music of the Renaissance.  Specific research interests include sacred music, patronage studies, monarchical representation, music and politics, musical borrowing, music and rhetoric, seventeenth-century Italian opera, the Romantic Lied and song cycle (especially Schumann), and the German orchestral tradition (especially Mendelssohn and Richard Strauss). 

His publications include articles in the _Journal of Musicology_, _Music & Letters_, _Journal of Musicological Research_, _Schütz-Jahrbuch_, and _Nineteenth-Century Music Review_; a chapter in _Early Musical Borrowing_, ed. Honey Meconi (New York: Routledge, 2004); and reviews in _Renaissance Quarterly_, _Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music_, _Seventeenth-Century News_, and _Notes of the Music Library Association_.  He has also published scholarly editions of seventeenth-century music, including _Motets by Emperor Ferdinand III and Other Musicians from the Imperial Court_, Collegium Musicum: Yale University (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, forthcoming); Giovanni Felice Sances, _Motetti a 2, 3, 4, e cinque voci (1642)_, Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era 148 (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2008); as well as editions of works by Giovanni Valentini and Antonio Bertali in the Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music.  His book _Sacred Music as Public Image for Emperor Ferdinand III: Representing the Counter-Reformation Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years' War_ will be published by Ashgate in 2012.

Prof. Weaver is a frequent presenter at scholarly conferences in both the US and abroad.  Conferences in America have included annual meetings of the American Musicological Society; meetings of the Southwest, New England, Midwest, and Capital Chapters of the AMS; and meetings of other academic societies such as the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and the South-Central Renaissance Conference.  International conferences have included the biannual meeting of the A.M.I.S. - Como (held at the Catholic University of Milan), "Sacred Music in the Habsburg Empire 1619-1740 and Its Contexts" (held at the University of Utrecht), and "Strauss Among the Scholars: An International Conference" (held at Oxford University).  He has also recorded Podcast lectures (“eInsights”) for the Washington National Opera.

With an undergraduate degree in viola performance, Prof. Weaver continues to be active as a  chamber music and orchestral musician in the DC area.

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