William Kinderman
William Andrew Kinderman is an American author and music scholar who plays the piano.
Life
Born in Philadelphia, Kinderman studied music and philosophy at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and later the same subjects at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna. He studied musicology at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley. He held a professorship at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently is professor and inaugural Leo and Elaine Krown Klein Chair of Performance Studies, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on Beethoven, Mozart, and Wagner. He has also written on the creative process in music, and on literary subjects including Thomas Mann. His composition for piano, Beehe, has received performances and recordings.Books
Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.Beethoven’s Compositional Process. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln/Nebraska 1991.Beethoven. on Oxford University Press, 1995.The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality. on University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln/Nebraska 1996.Artaria 195: Beethoven’s Sketchbook for the ‘Missa solemnis’ and the Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 109. 3 volumes, University of Illinois Press, Urbana 2003.A Companion to Wagner’s Parsifal. Camden House, Rochester/New York 2005.Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times. University of Chicago Press, 2020. German edition as Beethoven. Ein politischer Künstler in revolutionären Zeiten. Vienna: Molden Verlag, 2020.