14 Mar 2016

Nancy November

From Upbeat, 1:01 pm on 14 March 2016

Musicologist Dr Nancy November from the School of Music at the University of Auckland has been awarded a Marsden Fund grant to investigate the social role of chamber music in 1800s Vienna. The grant worth $580,000 will fund the first in-depth contextual study of chamber music in Beethoven's time and examine why so many leading composers of the day have been forgotten.

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