Andreas Giger
Musicology
Andreas Giger is Associate Professor of Musicology at Louisiana State University.
He holds a Lizentiat in Musicology from the University of Zurich, a Lehrdiplom in Piano from
the Winterthur Conservatory, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Indiana University.
Between 1998 and 2000, he was Associate Director of the
Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature at Indiana University. He now serves on the Center's Board of Directors.
Andreas Giger is the founder of the Internet database saggi musicali italiani and co-editor of the Internet database Musical Borrowing: An Annotated Bibliography. Besides the field of electronic text distribution, he specializes in nineteenth-century Italian opera, especially the works by Giuseppe Verdi, and on Leonard Bernstein. Giger has delivered papers at numerous national and international conferences and has published in The Journal of Musicology, the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, the Cambridge Opera Journal, the Cambridge Companion to Verdi, Acta musicologica, Music & Letters, and the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, among others. He contributed the monograph on Verismo to the Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie and co-edited Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music Theory and Literature for the 21st Century (University of Nebraska Press, 2000), for which he has received an ASCAP Deems-Taylor award. His book Verdi and the French Aesthetic: Verse, Stanza, and Melody in Nineteenth-Century Opera is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press and supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Andreas Giger, Associate Professor
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
Voice: 225/578-3688
Fax: 225/578-2562
E-mail:agiger1@lsu.edu
