About the Organizers

Adeline Mueller is Associate Professor of Music at Mount Holyoke College. She specializes in opera and art song by Mozart and his contemporaries, particularly in German-speaking Europe, with additional research interests in music and childhood, marginalized composers, and silent film music. Her book Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press. She has published articles in Eighteenth-Century Music (2013) and Opera Quarterly (2012 and 2013), and contributed chapters to The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute (2023), Mozart in Context (Cambridge, 2018), and Wagner and Cinema (Indiana, 2010).

Christopher Parton is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at Princeton University, where he also earned his PhD in musicology in January 2024. His research focuses on the aesthetic and media histories of nineteenth-century Lieder, spanning topics including early-Romantic philosophies of love and gender, the global dissemination of German-to-English translation, and representations of disability. Last year his article “Speech and Silence: Encountering Flowers in the Lieder of Clara Schumann” came out in Nineteenth-Century Music Review.

Annette Richards is Given Foundation Professor in the Humanities and University Organist at Cornell. Her recent book, The Temple of Fame and Friendship: Portraits, Music and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle (Chicago, 2022), grew out of her work reconstructing the extraordinary portrait collection of C. P. E. Bach. She is currently working on a book on music and the history of touch, but she is also exploring the Hammond organ and the mid-20th-century American family, and preparing two recordings of the complete organ works of C. P. E. Bach and G. A. Homilius.