Heather Platt, Professor of Music History at Ball State University, is the author of Johannes Brahms A Research and Information Guide, and co-editor, with Peter H. Smith of Expressive Intersections in Brahms. Platt’s articles on Brahms’s lieder have appeared in such publications as Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall, The Cambridge Companion to the Lied, Brahms Studies, The Journal of Musicology and Integral. Platt serves as Co-editor of Book Reviews for Music Theory Online, and Digital Reviews Editor for Nineteenth Century Music Review.

The Joseph Joachim at 185 conference is supported in part by a major grant from the

University of New Hampshire Center for the Humanities

Burt Feintuch, director

We are grateful for additional financial and practical support from the

Ryan C. McClelland, President

and the

Christoph Mücher, Director

and from

Magazin für Klassische Musik und Musikwissenschaft

Geschäftsstellenleiter: Mathias Brösicke