Lawrence Kramer was editor of 19th-Century Music for over three decades, jointly for the first twelve years with James Hepokoski. No other author has published as much in this journal: not only nine articles (a tie with Maynard Solomon), but also reviews, viewpoints (one a “counterpoint”) as well as five special issues with introduction, prelude, or afterword. Kramer’s first article for the journal appeared in 1981 (“The Mirror of Tonality”) and the most recent one in 2024 (“Mahler’s Contralto Voice”). Over the last forty years, he also authored sixteen monographs, winning the 2017 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism for The Thought of Music (University of California Press, 2016). His latest, Experiencing Sound (also from California), was published in October 2024. Appointed in an English Department (Fordham University), Kramer came to musicology as a scholar of literature, a critic, and a composer. He was never a...

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