Stephen Downes is Professor and Head of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of six monographs, including Music and Decadence in European Modernism (2010), After Mahler: Weill, Britten, Henze and Romantic Redemption (2013), editor of Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches (2014) and co-editor of The Szymanowski Companion (2015). He is a winner of the Wilk Prize for research in Polish music (University of Southern California) and was awarded the Karol Szymanowski Memorial Medal. He is co-editor of the journal Music and Letters.

The Joseph Joachim at 185 conference is supported in part by a generous 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

the

Christoph Mücher, Director

the Federal Republic of Germany through the German Academic Exchange Service

Dr. Nina Lemmens, Director DAAD North America
and Michael Thomanek, Senior Program Officer

and from

Magazin für Klassische Musik und Musikwissenschaft
Geschäftsstellenleiter: Mathias Brösicke