Jeffrey Kallberg

Jeffrey Kallberg (born October 17, 1954) is an American musicologist, who specializes 19th and 20th-century classical music, as well as topics in critical theory and gender studies related to music. He is a leading scholar on the life and works of the composer Frédéric Chopin, who is the subject of much of his research.

Life and career Jeffrey Kallberg was born on October 17, 1954, in Glencoe, Minnesota, US. He received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1975 and Master of Arts at the University of Chicago in 1978. Since 1982, Kallberg has been on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where be became an associate professor in 1987. Throughout his career he has held visiting professorships at the State University of New York, Harvard University and Princeton University.

Kallberg's research includes 19th and 20th-century classical music, as well as topics relating to critical theory and gender studies in music. In particular, he has written much on the composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin, included analysis of his life and works based on "style, formal structure, publication history and gender and ideological issues". He was instrumental in authenticating Chopin's—possibly fragmented—rediscovered Waltz in A minor in 2024.

Kallberg is coeditor with Anthony Newcomb of the 'New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism' monograph series. He edited a critical edition of Verdi's Luisa Miller in 1991.

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