William Kinderman


William Andrew Kinderman is an American who plays the piano.

Life

Born in Philadelphia, Kinderman studied music and philosophy at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and later the same subjects at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna. He studied musicology at Yale University and University of California, Berkeley. He held a professorship at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] and currently is professor and inaugural Leo and Elaine Krown Klein Chair of Performance Studies, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner. He has also written on the creative process in music, and on literary subjects including Thomas Mann. His composition for piano, Beehe, has received performances and recordings.

Books

Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times. University of Chicago Press, 2020. German edition as Beethoven. Ein politischer Künstler in revolutionären Zeiten. Vienna: Molden Verlag, 2020.

Essays