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Bathia
Churgin is Professor emerita in the Music
Department of Bar-Ilan University (Israel), a
department she founded in 1970. She earned her
Ph. D. at Harvard University in 1963 and first
taught at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY). She
has been a visiting professor at Tel Aviv
University, The Hebrew University, the Harvard
Summer School, Northwestern University Summer
School, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY,
and Indiana University. A specialist in Classic
music, the Classic Symphony, and Beethoven, she
is the author of four volumes concerning the
music of G. B. Sammartini and the book,
"Transcendent Mastery: Studies in the Music of
Beethoven" (Pendragon, in press). She is also
the editor of Beethoven's Third and Fourth
Symphonies for the Beethoven-Haus Werke (in
press), and coeditor with Mary Sue Morrow of the
volume on the l8th-century symphony for the
series "The Symphonic Repertoire" (in press,
Indiana University Press). A Festschrift in her
honor was published by the Journal of
Musicology, 18 (winter, 2001). |
