Research and Teaching Portfolio
Research
Michael Fend's present research projects focus on inclusive and exclusive musical nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe, which was stimulated by the ESF workshop on “Music, Culture and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe”, held at King’s in 2010, and on ideologies and practices of tonality in the early twentieth century.Research Supervision
Current research students
Tom McAuley: The Birth of the Idea of Absolute Music 1787-1801
Beth Weller: The Reception of Schubert's Songs in England, 1828-1883
Diane Tisdall: Violin Teaching at the Paris Conservatoire, 1800-1810: The Role of Pedagogy in Performance
Ayumi Kubo: The Operas of Étienne de Juoy
Previous research students
Anna McCready: Gilding the Lily: Music and Monarchy in Paris, 1814-1833 (PhD) (2003)
Jane Roper: A Study of public and private Spheres in the musical Culture of sixteenth-century Leipzig (PhD) (2004)
Guy Dammann: The Morality of Musical Imitation in Jean-Jacques Rousseau (PhD) (2006)
Jane Brandon: The Secret of Perfection: Britten and Verdi (PhD) (2008)
Teaching
MMus Programme
History of Music Theory I and II (From Antiquity to 19th Century)
Faust in Music
Issues in Historiography and Criticism
Music and Enlightenment
Late Beethoven
BMus Programme
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Music Festivals
Monteverdi
Issues and Topics in the Eighteenth-Century History of Music
Music and Society in France, 1789-1870
Middle Beethoven
The Beethoven Myth
Issues and Topics in the Nineteenth-Century History of Music
Narrative and Lyricism in Nineteenth-Century French and German Song
Nineteenth-Century Programme Music
Wagner
Gustav Mahler
Claude Debussy
Music and Society in France around 1900
Opera and Reason
Stockhausen