פרופ' בתיה חורגין

Prof. Bathia Churgin, Musicologist, founder of Bar-Ilan University's Music Department

Curriculum Vitae (pdf version)

 

Books and Editions

"The Symphonies of G. B. Sammartini," 2 vols.: Vol. I, 555 pp., Vol. II, 318 pp. (total:
     873 pp.). Ph. D. dissertation. Harvard University, 1963. UM 74-26, 282.

Churgin, Bathia, ed.  The Symphonies of G. B. Sammartini. Volume I: The Early           
    Symphonies. Harvard Publications in Music, 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
    University Press, 1968.

Jenkins, Newell, and Bathia Churgin. Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Giovanni
    Battista Sammartini: Orchestral and Vocal Music. Cambridge, MA: Harvard  Uni-
    versity Press, 1976. Published for the American Musicological Society.

Churgin, Bathia, and Joachim Braun. "A Report Concerning the Authentic Performance    
    of Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, Op. 60." Research Project of the Beethoven Seminar
    at Bar-Ilan University. Informal Publication. Ramat Gan: Department of Musicology,
    1977.
              
Churgin, Bathia, ed. Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Sonate a tre strumenti (Six Notturnos
    for String Trio, Op. 7), A New Edition with Historical and Analytical Essays. Early
    Musical Masterworks, 5. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

---- Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Ten Symphonies. The Symphony: 1720-1840, Series
    A, Vol. II.  New York and London: Garland publishing, Inc., 1984.

---- Editions of two symphonies by Antonio Brioschi, with analysis of both and a third       
    symphony ed. Tilden A. Russell; edition of a symphony by Fortunato Chelleri, with 
    the assistance of Martha Frohlich. The Symphony: 1720-1840, Series A, Vol. III .
    New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985 ,pp. xi-xxxii, 1-42, 61-74.

---- Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, B-flat Major, Op. 60. London, Mainz: Ernst Eulenburg, 
    Ltd., No. 414/EE 6820, 1998.

Churgin, Bathia. Transcendent Mastery: Studies in the Music of Beethoven. North
    American Beethoven Studies No. 4.  Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2008.                           
    Corrected reprint, with page of corrigenda, 2011.

Morrow, Mary Sue, and Bathia Churgin, eds. The Symphonic Repertoire. Volume 1: The
    Eighteenth-Century Symphony. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University
    Press, 2012.

Churgin, Bathia, Ed. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 ("Eroica") and Symphony
     No. 4, Op. 60. Beethoven Werke, Absteilung 1, Band 2.  General editor, Sieghard
     Brandenburg. Munich: Henle, in collaboration with the Beethoven-Archiv, Bonn, 2013. 

Churgin, Bathia, Ed. Symphonie Nr. 3, Es-dur, Opus 55, Urtext, Studien-Edition, Munich: G. Henle, 2016.

Churgin, Bathia, Ed. Symphonie Nr. 4, B-dur, Opus 60, Urtext, Studien-Edition, Munich: G. Henle, 2016.

 

Editing

Editor, Israel Studies in Musicology, Vol. 2 (1980), Vol. 6 (1996)

Articles And Writings

Churgin, Bathia. Articles on Giuseppe Sammartini and Giovanni Battista Sammartini
    (the latter Churgin/Newell Jenkins). Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart  XI
    (1963): 1334-43.  Corrections in Supplement XVI (1979: 1636).

Jenkins, Newell, and Bathia Churgin. Article Giovanni Battista Sammartini, in the
    [Ricordi] Enciclopedia della musica IV (l964): 105-06.

Churgin, Bathia. "New Facts in Sammartini Biography: The Authentic Print of the
    String trios, Op. 7,"  Journal of the American  Musicological Society,  XX (1967):
    107-12.

----"Franceso Galeazzi's Description (1796) of Sonata Form," Journal of the
    American Musicological Society, XXI (1968): 181-99. Reprinted  in the Garland
    Library of the History of Western Music, ed. Ellen Rosand, Vol. 7, Classic Music.
    New York and London: Garland  Publishing, Inc., 1985, pp. 1-19.  Reprint of a slightly
    revised translation of Galeazzi's description in Oliver Strunk, ed., Source Readings in
    Music History, rev. ed. gen. ed. Leo Treitler, Vol. V, The Late Eighteenth Century.   
    Ed. Wye Jamison Allenbrook. New York and London: Norton, 1998, pp. 85-92.

----"G. B. Sammartini and the Symphony," The Musical Times, CXVI (1975): 26-29.

----"A New Edition of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony: Editorial Report,"  Israel Studies
   in Musicology I (1978): 9-53 (based on the Seminar Report, with corrections).

----Bibliography of prints containing music by G. and G. B. Sammartini. In Karlheinz
    Schlager, ed. Einzeldrucke vor 1800, RISM A/I, Vol. III. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1978, pp.
    324-29.

----Articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie
    (London: Macmillan, 1980): Antonio Brioschi, Ferdinando Galimberti, Francesco
    Galeazzi, Giuseppe Sammartini; Churgin/ Newell Jenkins, Giovanni Battista
    Sammartini.

Churgin, Bathia. "Alterations in Gluck's Borrowings from Sammartini," Studi musicali
    IX (1980): 117-34.        

----"The Symphony as Described by J. A. P. Schulz (1774): a Commentary and
   Translation," Current Musicology XXIX (1980): 7-16.

---- "The Italian Symphonic Background to Haydn's Early Symphonies and Opera
   Overtures." In Jens Peter Larsen, Howard Serwer, and James Webster, eds.
   Haydn Studies, Proceedings of the International Haydn Conference, Washington,
   D. C. , 1975. New York: Norton, 1981, pp. 329-36; further comments, 343-44; 352.
   Revised reprint: Hans Tischler Festschrift,  Orbis musicae XII (1998): 73-82.

----"Composers and Audience—Past and Present [the Classic Period]," Music in Time
   (Jerusalem, 1983/84), 36-44.

----"The Recapitulation in Sonata-Form Movements of Sammartini and Early Haydn
   Symphonies." In Eva Badura-Skoda, ed.  Internationaler Joseph Haydn Kongress
   Wien 1982. Munich: Henle, 1986, pp. 135-40.

----"Remarks on the Symphonies/Overtures in the Scores of the Three Ceremonies for
   Hoshana Rabah at the Synagogue of Casale Monferrato," 1732, 1733, 1735, attached to
   the article by Israel Adler on these cantatas. Yuval V (1986): 132-33, Hebrew section 
   (discussion of the five works is in English).

----"Beethoven and Mozart's Requiem: A New Connection,"  Journal of Musicology, V
   (1987): 457-77.  Reprint, with corrections and additions, in Min-Ad, electronic journal
   of the Israel Musicological Society, Dec. 2006, Vol. II, 19-39, with page of Addenda.

Churgin, Bathia, and Naomi C. Miller. "Our Father--Pinkhos Churgin." In Pinkhos
    Churgin, Vision and Legacy. Eds. Louis Bernstein and Raphael Yankelevitch.
    Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1987, pp.*22-*25 (English section).

Churgin, Bathia. "Beethoven's Sketches for His String Quintet, Op.29." In Studies in
    Musical Sources and Style: Essays in Honor of Jan LaRue. Eds. Eugene K. Wolf and
    Edward H. Roesner. Madison, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., 1990, pp. 441-79.
 
---"Did Sammartini Influence Mozart's Earliest String Quartets?"  Mozart Jahrbuch 
   (1991), I, 329-39. Bericht über den internationalen Mozart-Kongress 1991.

----"Harmonic and Tonal Instability in the Second Key Area of Classic Sonata Form." In
   Convention in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Music: Essays in Honor of Leonard
   G. Ratner. Eds. Wye J. Allanbrook, Janet M. Levy, and William P. Mahrt. Stuyvesant
   NY: Pendragon, 1992, pp. 23-57.

----"Sammartini and Boccherini: Continuity and Change in the Italian Instrumental
   Tradition of the Classic Period, " Chigiana, XLIII (1993)): 171-91.  Atti del convegno
    internazionale di studi, Luigi Boccherini e la musica strumentale dei maestri italiani in
    Europa tra Sette e Ottocento. Siena, 29-31 luglio 1993.

----"Conference Report: 'Beethoven: New Perspectives,' Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan,
   Israel, May 5, 1994," The Beethoven Journal, 10 (Spring, 1995): 25-26.

----"Max Rudolf in memoriam (June 15, 1902-February 28, 1995)," The Beethoven Journal, 10 (Fall, 1995): 86-88.

----"The Andante con moto in Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 130: The Final Version and
   Changes on the Autograph," Journal of Musicology, XVI (1998): 227-53.

---"Beethoven and the New Development-Theme in Sonata-Form Movements," Journal
   of Musicology, XVI (1998): 323-43.

----"Exploring the Eroica: Aspects of the New Critical Edition."  In Haydn, Mozart, and
    Beethoven: Studies in Music of the Classical Period. Essays in Honour of Alan Tyson.
    Ed. Sieghard Brandenburg.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, pp. 181-211.

Churgin, Bathia, and  Sarah Mandel-Yehuda, article Antonio Brioschi, in Die Musik in
    Geschichte und Gegengwart, 2nd ed., Personnenteil, III (2000): 907-10.

Churgin, Bathia. Guest Column: "Mozartian Byways," Mozart Society of America
     Newsletter, IV (August, 2000): 1-2, 4-5.

Revised articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.    
      London: Macmillan, 2001: Brioschi (Churgin/Mandel-Yehuda), Galeazzi, Galimberti,
      G. Sammartini, G. B. Sammartini (all Churgin).

Churgin, Bathia. "Stormy Interlude:  Sammartini's Middle Symphonies and Overtures in
      Minor." In Anna Cattoretti, ed. Giovanni Battista Sammartini and His Musical
      Environment. Brepols: Turnhout, 2004, pp. 37-62.

----"In Memoriam: Janet M. Levy," Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Newsletter,
   (October, 2004):  p. 9.

----"In Memoriam: Jan LaRue (1918-2004),"  Newsletter of the Mozart Society of
   America, IX (August 27, 2005): 12-13.

----"Recycling Old Ideas in Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132." In Essays in Honor of
   László Somfai on His 70th Birthday. Studies in the Sources and the Interpretation of
   Music. Eds. László Vikárius and Vera Lampert. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow
   Press, 2005, pp. 249-65.

----Article Max Rudolf, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2nd ed., Personnen-
   teil, XIV (2005): 620-21.

----"The Founding of the Department of Musicology," Journal of the Retired Senior
    Faculty, Bar-Ilan University, No. 5 (2007): 25-26 (in Hebrew).

----"Sammartini as Model: The 'andante piano' from Antonio Brioschi's trio symphony
   (Fonds Blancheton II/61)." In Antonio Brioschi e il nuovo stile musicale del Settecento
   lombardo. Atti del convegno internazionale Alessandria, 20-21 Settembre 2008. Eds.
   Davide Daolmi and Cesare Fertonani. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2010, pp.  95-103. 

----"Nino Pirrotta: his influence on my  work as scholar and teacher." In: Musicologia fra
   due continenti: L'eredità di Nino Pirrotta (Roma, 4-6 giugno 2008). Rome: Scienze e
   lettere, 2010, pp. 227-28.

----"In Memory, Leonard G. Ratner," The Beethoven Journal, 27 (Summer, 2012): 50.

----"In Memory of Leonard G. Ratner," Newsletter of the Mozart Society of America, 26
   (August 27, 2012): 14.

----"Beethoven's Handel and the Messiah Copies." In Word, Image, and Song, Essays in
   Honor of  Ellen Rosand. Eds. Rebecca Cypess, Beth Glixon, and Nathan Link. 
   Rochester, NY: The University of Rochester Press, Vol. II, 2013. Reprint. The Beethoven Journal, 19 (Summer 2014): 4-14.

----Updating of articles in the Oxford Online: Brioschi (with Sarah Mandel-Yehuda),
   Galimberti, G. Sammartini, G. B. Sammartini, 2013-16.

----"The new Editions of Beethoven's Symphonies 3 (Eroica) and 4," Min-Ad, Israel Studies in Musicology Online 13 (2015-16): 85-92.

 

Letters to the Editor

Notes, 35 (1978): 456, regarding the investigation of sources for the Sammartini thematic
     catalogue.

Early Music, 18 (1990): 350, regarding the cello sonatas by Berteau and the ascription of
    the G-major sonata to G. B. Sammartini and Giuseppe Dall'Abaco.

Early Music, 20 (1992): 526, regarding the new edition of  Sammartini's  Lenten cantata,
     J-C 118, with a list of errata.

Journal of the American Musicological Society, 46 (1993): 153-60,  regarding the "bifocal
    close" in Sammartini's symphonies.
Virginia Woolf Miscellany, 40 (1993): 1, regarding Virginia Woolf and music.

Production of a Compact Disc

Buried Treasure: Unknown Instrumental Music of the Classic Period -
     Brioschi/Sammartini/Boccherini/Vachon. Presented in honor of the 25th anniversary  
     of the Department of Musicology, Bar-Ilan , and the 40th anniversary of the univer-
     sity, 1955-1995 (June 1995). Contents: Antonio Brioschi, symphony in G major (be-
     fore October 1733); G. B. Sammartini, Notturno for string trio in D major, Op. 7, No.
     2 (ca. 1759-60), String Quartet in E major (ca. 1771); Luigi Boccherini, string trio in 
     G  major, Op. 34 No. 2 (1781); and Pierre Vachon, string trio in E-flat major, Op. 5   
     No. 2  (ca. 1772). Performed by the  Bar-Ilan Chamber Orchestra, members of the 
     Israel Philharmonic, and the Jerusalem String Trio.  Recorded by Israel Radio. 
     Works  edited by Bathia Churgin and her  students Miriam Tchernowitz-Neustadtl
     and Miriam Lensky.

 

Reviews

Brook, Barry S. La Symphonie française dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. 3 vols.
    (Paris, 1962) . Journal of the American Musicological Society, 17 (1964): 224-27.

Buelow, George J.  Thorough-Bass Accompaniment According to Johann David
    Heinichen (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1966) .  Journal of the American Musico-
    logical  Society, 21 (1968): 393-96.

Helmuth Osthoff zu seinem siebzigsten Geburtstag, eds. Ursula Aarburg und Peter Cahn
    (Tutzing, 1969).  Notes, 27 (1970): 281-82.

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vols. (London,
    1980): articles on "Music of the Classical Era." The Musical Quarterly, 68 (1982):
    228-37.

Ratner, Leonard G.  Classic Music: Expression, Form, and Style  (New York, 1980).
    Journal of the American Musicological Society, 25 (1982): 351-60.

Landon, H. C. Robbins. Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vols. I, III, IV (Bloomington,
    1980, 1976, 1977); Haydn, A Documentary Study (New York, 1981).  Eighteenth-
    Century Studies, 16 (1983): 346-52.

Brandenburg, Sieghard., ed. Ludwig van Beethoven: Kesslersches Skizzenbuch. Two
    vols, Faksimile, Übertragung (Bonn, 1976, 1978). Israel Studies in Musicology, 3
    (1983): 171-77.

Lister, Craig, ed. Pierre van Maldere: Six Symphonies a più strumenti, opus 4. Recent
    Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, 35-36 (Madison, WI: A-R Editions,
    1990); Braun, Jürgen, und Sonia Gerlach, eds. Joseph Haydn: Sinfonien 1761 bis
    1763.  Joseph Haydn Werke, Ser. 1, vol. 3 (Munich: Henle, 1990).  Notes, 39 (1993):
    1630-32.

LaRue, Jan. Guidelines for Style Analysis. Second edition (Warren, MI, 1992).  Notes,
    50 (1994): 1429-30.

Liner Notes

Boccherini, Luigi. Four String Trios (Op. 14,  Nos. 4 and 5; Op. 47, Nos. 5 and 6),
     performed by the New York String Trio (Dover HCR 5255, 1966).

Beethoven, Ludwig van. Symphony No. 3, "Eroica," Coriolan Overture, Orchester der
     Beethovenhalle Bonn, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies (MusicMasters
     Classics 01612-67121-2, 1993). The symphony performance draws on the new  Eroica
     edition of  Bathia Churgin.

Buried Treasure: Unknown Instrumental  Music of the Classic Period  (Bar-Ilan
    University, 1995). Introduction and notes for the works by Antonio Brioschi and
    G. B. Sammartini.

Lectures (selection)

1. "The Early Symphonies of G. B. Sammartini." Doctoral lecture, Harvard University,
     Spring, 1963.

2. "The Symphonies of G. B. Sammartini: Chronology and Style."  American Musico-
     logical Society, Seattle, December, 1963.

3. "The Music of G. B. Sammartini, a Forgotten Master." Scholar's Lecture, Vassar
    College, Spring, 1964.

4. "Baroque and Classic Elements in  Sammartini's Early Symphonies." Seminar, Brown
    University, Spring 1970.

5. "Editing Sammartini's Symphonies." Israel Musicological Society, Winter 1972.

6. " G. B. Sammartini: His Role in the Development of the Classic Style." Bicentennial
    lecture  given in 1975 at New York University, Rutgers University, The University of
    North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  January 1975.

7. "The Italian Symphonic Background to Haydn's Early Symphonies and Opera Over-
    tures." International Haydn Conference, Kennedy Center, Washington, D. C. , Fall
    1975.

8. "The Authentic Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies: A Preliminary Report on the
    Beethoven Seminar at Bar-Ilan University." Israel Musicological Society, Spring 1977.

9. Two lectures on performance practice in Beethoven's music. Rubin Academy,
    Jerusalem, Summer 1977.

10. "Performance Practice in Beethoven's Piano Sonatas." Mannes College of Music,
      New York City, Spring 1981.

11. "Contemporary Israeli Music." Queens College, CUNY, Spring 1981.

12. "Beethoven's Sketches for his String Quintet, Op. 29."  New York University, Spring
      1981.

13. "The Interrelationship of Audience, Composer, and Performer in the Classical  Era."
      International Symposium sponsored by the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem, at
      the Van Leer Instituite, Spring 1982.

14. "The Recapitulation in Sonata-Form Movements of Sammartini and Early Haydn
      Symphonies." International Haydn Conference, Vienna, September  1982.

15.  "Exploring the Eroica: Aspects of the New Critical Edition."  The Martin Bernstein
       Lecture, New York University, October 1987. Also given at the International Beeth-
       ven Conference at Bar-Ilan University, December 1987, as the Smith Lecture,
       Vassar College, Fall 1988, and at Northwestern Universty, Fall 1988.

16.  "Women and Music in the 18th and 19th Centuries." Lecture sponsored by the Lechter
      Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Bar-Ilan University, Spring 1988.  Also given as the
      Smith Lecture, Vassar College, Fall 1988.

17. "Did Sammartini Influence Mozart's Earliest String Quartets?"  International Mozart
       Conference, Salzburg, February 1991.  Also given at the Mozart Conference, Bar-
       Ilan  University, December 1991.

18. "Sammartini and Boccherini: Continuity and Change in the Italian Instrumental
      Tradition of the Classic Period." Boccherini conference, Siena, Accademia musicale
       Chigiana, July 1993.

19. "Musical Editions and the Performance of Beethoven's Chamber Music," in  the
      International Chamber Music Workshop on the Chamber Music of Beethoven
      directed by Isaac Stern.  Jerusalem, August 1993.

20. "Beethoven and the New Theme in the Development Section of Sonata-Form  Movements."  International Beethoven Conference, Bar-Ilan University, May 1994.  Given again at Yale University in November 1996.

21. "The Andante con moto in Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 130: the Final Version and Changes on the Autograph." Conference at Harvard University on Beethoven's late period in honor of Lewis Lockwood, November 1, 1996.

22. "G. B. Sammartini at 300: the Sammartini Revival." The first Sammartini conference, Milan, October 4, 2001. Also given at the Musicology Department of Indiana University, November 2001.

23. "Recycling  Old Ideas: Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 132." Indiana University, November 2001.

24. "Beethoven's Handel  and the Messiah copies."  Beethoven Conference, with the
       American Musicological Society, November 1, 2012, New Orleans.      

25. Presentation of the new critical edition of Beethoven's Third and Fourth symphonies at the New Beethoven Research Conference, Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, Germany, 12 September 2014.   

26.  Several Lectures at Bar-Ilan University for the Burney Society and the Departmental Colloquium mostly on Beethoven.

Program Notes (selection)

1. For three Sammartini symphonies performed by the Hudson Valley Philharmonic
    in 1960 and 1969.

2. For two Sammartini symphonies performed by the Cambridge Society for Early
    Music, 1960.

3. For programs of music by Monteverdi and the Mozart-Haydn string quartets at Vassar
    College in 1967 and 1968.

4. For the all-Sammartini concert at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City on
    10 February, 1970:  a symphony, arias, and Missa solemnis conducted by Newell Jenkins.

5. For the All-Sammartini  concert of chamber and keyboard music at Town Hall, New
    York City on 8 January 1975.  Bicentennial concert.

6.  For Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 127, Tel Aviv Museum, 1977.

7. For Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, Israel Chamber Orchestra Concerts, June 1977,
    performing the new edition of the symphony by Bathia Churgin and her students in
    the Beethoven Seminar at Bar-Ilan University.

8. For a program of unknown Italian music edited by Bathia Churgin and two of her
    students, performed at Bar-Ilan University and Beit Ariela, Tel  Aviv, 1980-81:
    2 symphonies by Brioschi and Chelleri; two string trios by Sammartini and
    Boccherini.

9. For a Sammartini symphony, J-C 14, performed by the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra
    at Bar-Ilan University, 1990.

10. For music by Fanny Mendelsohn Hensel  (two piano  Lieder, Op. 2/1, Op. 8/1) and
      Clara Wieck Schumann (Scherzo, Op. 10), at a concert of music by women
      composers at Bar-Ilan University on 25 May1992.

11. For an all-Sammartini concert at Bar-Ilan University on  29 March 1993: symphonies
      J-C 36, 26; concertos  J-C 69 and 71a (for Violin and Flute).