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Steven Vande Moortele is Professor of Music Theory at the University of Toronto, where he is also director of the Centre for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Music (CSNCM). His research interests include theories of musical form, the analysis of large-scale instrumental music from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, and the works of Richard Wagner and Arnold Schoenberg.

Vande Moortele has written or (co)edited six books, and his articles and reviews have appeared in journals including Music Theory Spectrum, Music Analysis, Music & Letters, Music Theory & Analysis, MusiktheorieIntégral, Res Musica, Current Musicology, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Musik und Ästhetik, Dutch Journal of Music Theory, and Revue belge de musicologie, as well as in several edited volumes. His article “The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Trial, Error, and Chord Magic in Wagner’s Die Feen” (Music & Letters, 2019) was awarded the 2020 Westrup Prize from the Music and Letters Fund, and his article “Murder, Trauma, and the Half-Diminished Seventh Chord in Schoenberg’s Song of the Wood Dove” (Music Theory Spectrum, 2017) won the 2019 Roland Jackson Award from the American Musicological Society. In 2018, his book The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner (Cambridge University Press, 2017) received the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory. Vande Moortele is also the author of Two-Dimensional Sonata Form: Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky, (Leuven University Press, 2009), and co-editor (with Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers and Nathan Martin) of Formal Functions in Perspective: Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno (University of Rochester Press, 2015). His most recent book, Robert Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust, appeared with Leuven University Press in 2020 and an edited volume Wagner Studies is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Before coming to the University of Toronto, Vande Moortele held postdoctoral positions at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and McGill University and taught at the University of Oklahoma. His research is or has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Connaught Fund of the University of Toronto, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Bonn, Germany), and the Research Fund Flanders (FWO Vlaanderen). Since 2015, Vande Moortele has been an affiliate faculty member of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. From 2014­ until 2016, he also was a co-editor of the journal Music Theory & Analysis (MTA).


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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor of Music Theory
    University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, Canada2022 - present
  • Associate Dean, Research
    University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, Toronto, Canada2019 - 2022
  • Associate Professor of Music Theory
    University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, Toronto, Canada2017 - 2022
  • Director
    University of Toronto, Centre for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Music, Toronto, Canada2016 - present
  • Affiliate Faculty Member
    University of Toronto, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, Toronto, Canada2015 - present
  • Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Faculty of Music
    University of Toronto, Canada2011 - 2017
  • Assistant Professor of Music Theory, School of Music
    University of Oklahoma, United States2010 - 2011

DEGREES

  • PhD in Musicology
    University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium2006
  • M.A. in Musicology
    University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium2001

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Scholar
    Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Canada2009 - 2010
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Musicology Department
    University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium2006 - 2009

AVAILABILITY

  • Media enquiries
  • Collaborative projects
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Membership of an advisory committee

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