String Quartets in Beethoven's Europe

Nancy November is currently Associate Professor in musicology at the University of Auckland. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research continues to center on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. Recent publications include Performing History: Approaches to History Across Musicology (Academic Studies Press, 2020); Beethoven¿s Theatrical Quartets: Opp. 59, 74, and 95 (Cambridge University Press, 2013); a three-volume set of fifteen string quartets by Emmanuel Aloys Förster (A-R Editions, 2016); and Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven¿s Vienna (Boydell Press, 2017). She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship, and three Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society.