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Déodat de Séverac Musical Identity in Fin de Siècle France
Biography
Robert F. Waters is Assistant Professor of Music History at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, just outside of New York City. As a musicologist, he did editorial work on the French text of music criticism written by Hector Berlioz, a project undertaken by the Center for Studies in Nineteenth-Century Music in collaboration with the Paris Conservatoire. Published articles include Emulation and Influence: Japonisme and Western Music in fin de siècle Paris for the British journal The Music Review. He has lectured and presented papers in Australia, Greece, England, and throughout the United States. As a journalist, Waters was a contributing music writer for the Washington Post for ten years, and as a former pianist, Waters studied with Santiago Rodriguez, Thomas Schumacher, and Daniel Ericourt.
’The research presented in this book is both considerable and impressive.’ Notes '... a complete guide to Séverac's music...' Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies
