Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Music

Summary of research interests and expertise:

The keyboard and chamber music of Mozart
The fortepiano (on which he is an active performer of classical period repertoire)
Baroque and classical performance practice
English music of the Elizabethan period

For more information, please click here: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/music/staff/ji/
or here: http://sas.academia.edu/JohnIrving

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2012	Inhabiting Mozart’s chamber music: the fortepianist’s tale Chapters Mozart’s chamber music with keyboard ed M. Harlow (Cambridge, CUP, 2012), pp. 220-34
01-Jan-2012	The Symphony in Vienna, 1760-1827 Chapters The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony ed. J. Horton (Cambridge, 2012), pp.15-28
01-Dec-2011	CD - Sonatas from the Court of Salzburg: Leopold Mozart & his Contemporaries
01-Jan-2011	Chopin: Impromptus The New Complete Chopin Edition (Peters, 2011); co-edited with Christophe Grabowski vii + 55pp
10-Jan-2010	Understanding Mozart’s Piano Sonatas Published by Ashgate. John Irving’s new book considers a wide selection of contextual situations for Mozart’s sonatas and foregrounds the provisionality of the notated texts, arguning that these are not so much identifiers as possibilities and that the music’s identity resides in the usage (namely, the performance) rather than ‘on the page’. Reception history, analysis, organology, manuscript and archival studies and especially performance practice are the tools by which Irving attempts to go beyond Mozart’s texts in a search for meaning.
01-Jan-2010	Thomas Tomkins: Keyboard Music Musica Britannica 5 Revised, 3rd ed. (Stainer & Bell; London, 2010) ISBN 0-85249-798-9 xxviii + 110 pp.
2009	Mozart's Words, Mozart's Music: Untangling an Encounter with a Fortepiano and its Remarkable Consequences' in Austrian Studies, vol.17, pp.29-42
2009	Listening Again and Again: Mozart’s Music in Niemetschek’s ‘Life’ London: Ricordi
2009	Performance in the eighteenth century (chapter) Chapter on ‘Performance in the Eighteenth Century’ for The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music ed. Simon Keefe (Cambridge, 2009).
1997	Mozart's Piano Sonatas: Contexts, Sources, Style (Cambridge) 'The book is solid, reliable and erudite...a valuable addition to the growing body of literature...lay[ing] a firm foundation for future research' Early Music Mozart: the "Haydn" String Quartets Cambridge Music Handbook (Cambridge, 1998) ‘Irving is never less than authoritative and persuasive’ The Musical Times Mozart's Piano Concertos (Ashgate Press, 2003) 'An essential companion for players, students and listeners of this amazing body of music' Early Music Review

Additional Publications

Publications available in Senate House Libraries

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
the General Editorship of a series of monographs on The English-Texted Music of William Byrd (Boydell & Brewer).
a CD, Clarinets by Arrangement containing early 19th-century clarinet and fortepiano arrangements of classical chamber works including Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet and Beethoven’s Horn Sonata (with clarinettist, Jane Booth). The keyboard used in this recording is a copy of an Anton Walter 5–octave fortepiano (c.1795) made by Paul McNulty (sfz records, release - summer 2010)
a chapter on the Viennese Symphony for the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Symphony (ed. Julian Horton)
liner notes to the 10-volume series of CD recordings by Ronald Brautigam of Mozart's Piano Concertos (BIS)
Practice-as-research performance project include a CD recording of Mozart keyboard works on a historic 1763 clavichord (part of a research project supported by the British Academy, commencing in August 2010). More information also available here: http://www.johnirving.org.uk/johnirving.fortepianist/Mozart.html

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2011	For any event, please go here: This is John's diary of events

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