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Thomas Grey is Professor of music at Stanford University. He is the author of Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts (1995), as well as editor and co-author of the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Wagner's Flying Dutchman (2000), the Cambridge Companion to Wagner (2008), and Wagner and his World (Princeton University Press, 2009). Among other topics, he has also written on Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and other (non-Wagnerian) 19th-century opera. Recent projects include the painting of Hans Makart in relation to Wagner staging and criticism in the late 19th century, essays on the idea of “absolute music,” ecocritical perspectives on landscape and nature in 19th century music, and the entry on Richard Wagner for Oxford Bibliographies Online. He served as editor of the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 1999 through 2001. Current longer-range projects concern music and visual culture in the 19th century, American musical theater, and a history of the concept of "musical beauty" in relation to taste and identity-formation in the modern era (18th century to now)

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