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My current research examines the forced emigration of musicians and music scholars from Nazi and Fascist Europe, 1933-1945. I have completed a biography on one such scholar, the musicologist Kathi Meyer-Baer, and published four major articles on various facets of the subject. I have begun a second book about two extraordinary organizations that helped émigré music scholars re-establish themselves and their careers in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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David Josephson received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in music from Columbia, where he also directed the Concert Band for three years and helped edit the journal Current Musicology. He has taught at Brown since 1972, where he founded and directed the Brown Early Music Group and chaired the Music Department in 1979-1985. As chairman he built the Orwig Music Library, initiated an artists-in-residence program around a campus-based string quartet, supported creation of a jazz program, and brought Brown its first professional music theorist. He is author of a biography of the German-born American scholar Kathi Meyer-Baer (2010), John Taverner: Tudor Composer (Ann Arbor/London, 1979), Conversations with Ella Grainger (Music Monograph No. 1, Grainger Society Journal, 1993), and numerous articles and review-essays on the musical emigration from Nazi Europe, the composer/pianist Percy Grainger, and Taverner. He teaches courses on Baroque and Classic music, Mozart and Beethoven, conductors and conducting, the culture of death in 19th-century Europe, 19th-century religious music, the sociology of 20th-century music, and the European musical emigration of the 1930s.
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