mark ferraguto

By Sam Girling

The recent and ongoing subseries of scholarly editions String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe addresses an overlooked aspect of chamber music history by focusing on string quartets from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Traditionally, only the quartets of iconic Viennese composers—Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven—have remained prominent in the repertory, but this series broadens the scope to include lesser-known compositions (and composers) and their rich contextual backgrounds. The popularity of string quartets in small musical circles during this period was significant, yet many works were published only as performance parts rather than full scores. This practice contributed to their exclusion from broader canon formation as concert culture and music scholarship evolved in the late nineteenth century. As a result, the repertoire promoted in our subseries was mostly confined to private music-making and has not been thoroughly explored until now.

Two Recent Researches in Music editions have received prestigious awards!

John L. Snyder was awarded the 2024 Diana McVeigh Prize for Best Edition of British Music (published between 2020 and 2023) for his edition of Ethel Smyth’s Serenade in D Major for Orchestra (N084) by the North American British Music Studies Association. The award committee found every aspect of the edition “to be expertly done, the scholarly apparatus excellent, the research extensive, the commentary exhaustive, and the score clear and easy to read.” They proclaimed it an “outstanding edition” that makes a “distinctive contribution to British music studies.”

Mark Ferraguto received the 2024 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society for his project of editing, performing, and recording of Franz Weiss’s opus 8 string quartets. The Greenberg Award is a grant-in-aid designed to stimulate active