Mark Evan Bonds
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Mark Evan Bonds is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where taught from 1992 until his retirement in 2023. He holds a Master’s degree from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel and a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has written widely on the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. His books include Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration (Harvard), After Beethoven: Imperatives of Originality in the Symphony (Harvard), Music as Thought: Hearing the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven (Princeton), Absolute Music: The History of an Idea (Oxford), The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Composers in their Works (Oxford), and Beethoven: Variations on a Life (Oxford). He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study-Princeton, and the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF).
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