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A University of Utah Merit of Honor Award 2010 recipient, Suzanne Forsberg, discusses her research on the mid-eighteenth century symphony. Forsberg’s presentation includes images she collected during her research travels through Europe, as well as examples of less-heard symphonies of this era.

 

Forsberg’s multi-media approach engages students and faculty with music from a familiar era that they may not have heard before.  “I want to give students the opportunity to listen to symphonies that may be new to them,” remarks Forsberg.  “Moreover, I will present slides obtained from my travels that show the concert halls and music rooms in which these works were first performed. It is my hope that the students will be inspired to further explore symphonies from this time frame.”

 

Forsberg’s interest in eighteenth-century composers began when she was a student at Harvard University, where she wrote her thesis on the keyboard concertos of Johann Christian Bach.  A few years later, Forsberg spent her doctoral studies crisscrossing Europe in pursuit of research in the early classical symphony, collecting images and analyzing manuscripts.  

 

Her research focuses on more familiar composers such as Franz Joseph Haydn, but also lesser known masters, like Placidus von Camerloher.  “I enjoy all stages of research,” she says, “beginning with travel to libraries throughout Europe to study the manuscripts and early prints of a given composer and concluding with stylistic analysis of the music.”

 

Forsberg’s lecture will take place Friday, March 6 at noon in Dumke Recital Hall.

 

 

Last Updated: 3/22/23