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Nicole Grimes

Marie Curie Fellow
Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin (2008); BA (Hons), Trinity College Dublin (2000)

Dr Nicole Grimes studied musicology at Trinity College Dublin and Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. She was awarded a PhD in 2008 for her dissertation “Brahms’s Critics: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Critical Reception of Johannes Brahms.” Following her doctoral studies, she spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Humboldt University Berlin (DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service), a fellowship that led to her being the conference chair of the first international, bilingual conference on the late nineteenth-century Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick (University College Dublin in 2009). She is the editor of From Formalism to Expression: Rethinking Hanslick (forthcoming from the Eastman Studies in Music Series of the University of Rochester Press) with Siobhán Donovan and Wolfgang Marx, and editor of Mendelssohn Perspectives (Ashgate, 2012) with Angela R. MAce. From 2009–2010 she was the Postdoctoral Researcher on the project "First Movement Form in the Early Nineteenth-Century Piano Concerto" with Professor Julian Horton (IRCHSS). She has taught music history at University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Queen’s University Belfast, and the University of California, Irvine.

Nicole’s research is concerned with the music of the nineteenth century, particularly that of Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann. It focuses at the intersection between nineteenth- and twentieth-century German music criticism, music analysis and music aesthetics. She is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the School of Music, UCD, where she is working on a book provisionally called "Brahms and the Fabric of Modernist Culture,” under the auspices of the European Commission. Her research for this book is being undertaken at both the University of California, Irvine (2011–2013, where her mentor is Professor David Brodbeck), and University College Dublin (2013–2014, where her mentor is Professor Julian Horton).

 

Publications

Books
From Formalism to Expression: Rethinking Hanslick, co-edited with Siobhán Donovan and Wolfgang Marx, Eastman Studies in Music Series (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, in press).

Mendelssohn Perspectives, co-edited with Angela R. Mace (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012).

Peer-Review Articles

“The Schoenberg/Brahms Critical Tradition Reconsidered,” Music Analysis 31/i–ii (2012).

“Brahms’s Poetic Allusions through Hanslick’s Critical Lens,” American Brahms Society Newsletter 29/2 (Autumn 2011): 5–9.

“A Critical Inferno? Hanslick, Hoplit, and Liszt’s Dante Symphony,” Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 7 (2011–12): 3–22.

“‘Come Rise to Higher Spheres!” Tradition Transcended in Brahms’s Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 78,” in Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music 6/11 (April 2009): 129–152, with Dillon R. Parmer.

“In Search of Absolute Inwardness and Spiritual Subjectivity? The Historical and Ideological Context of Schumann’s ‘Neue Bahnen’,” International Review for the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 39/2 (December 2008): 139–163.


Book Chapters
“The Sense of an Ending: Adorno, Brahms, and Music’s Return to the Land of Childhood,” Irish Musical Analysis (Irish Musical Studies,Vol. 11), ed. Gareth Cox and Julian Horton (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012).

“Wordless Judaism, Like the Songs of Mendelssohn? Hanslick, Mendelssohn and Cultural Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna,” in Mendelssohn Perspectives, ed. Nicole Grimes and Angela R. Mace (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012).

“Introduction,” in Mendelssohn Perspectives, ed. Nicole Grimes and Angela R. Mace (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012), with Angela R. Mace.

“German Liberalism, Nationalism, and Humanism in Hanslick’s Writings on Brahms,”in From Formalism to Expression: Rethinking Hanslick, ed. Nicole Grimes, Siobhán Donovan, and Wolfgang Marx (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, in press).

“Introduction,” in From Formalism to Expression: Rethinking Hanslick, ed. Nicole Grimes, Siobhán Donovan, and Wolfgang Marx (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, in press).


Reviews
Eduard Hanslick, Sämtliche Schriften: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe 1/7, commissioned for Fontes Artis Musicae (in preparation).

Constantin Floros, Johannes Brahms, Free but Alone: A Life for a Poetic Music, commissioned for Nineteenth-Century Music Review (in preparation).

Theophil Antonicek, Gernot Gruber and Christoph Landerer, eds, Eduard Hanslick zum Gedenken: Bericht des Symposiums zum Anlass seines 100. Todestags, commissioned for the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 7 (2011–12).

Walter Frisch and Kevin C. Karnes, eds, Brahms and His World (Princeton: Princeton University Press) commissioned for Music Analysis 30/i (Spring 2011).

Kevin C. Karnes, Music Criticism and the Challenge of History: Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna, commissioned for the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 4 (2008–2009): 79–83.

Schoenberg, String Quartets, Aron Quartet with Anna Maria Pammer, sop., Preiser Records, PR 90572, commissioned for Nineteenth-Century Music Review 2/2 (2005).


Web resource
www.19cpc.org, with Julian Horton, forthcoming 2011.