People

David Brodbeck Department Chair and Professor of Music, and the Robert and Marjorie Rawlins Chair in Music Office: 303 Music & Media Phone: 949-824–4281 E-mail:dbrod@uci.edu Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1984 David Brodbeck's research focuses on Central European music of the 19th and early 20th centuries and Anglo-American popular music of the past fifty years.

He has published widely on topics ranging from the dances of Schubert and the sacred vocal music of Mendelssohn to various aspects of Brahms’s music. Much of his work on Brahms, in particular, has explored connections between biography and analysis. His book on the composer’s First Symphony, for example, addresses issues of genesis, extra-compositional allusion, and autobiographical content, concerns that are central, too, to his published essays on Brahms’s youthful studies in counterpoint and later large-scale chamber works. His works-in-progress include a biography of Brahms for the Cambridge Musical Lives series, an intertextual study of several recordings by the Beatles and the Beach Boys, and a project involving music reception and constructions of social identity in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

He is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Philosophical Society, and is a past President of the American Brahms Society.

Prior to joining the faculty at UC Irvine as Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Southern California.

Research

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Central European music of the 19th and early 20th centuries (especially Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák, Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg); analysis and criticism; rock music

Teaching

European art music of the 18th through the 20th centuries, American and British popular music since 1945; the Beatles.