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Mark Peters


Mark Peters is associate professor of music at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL. His primary area of research is sacred music of the Baroque period, and he recently published the monograph A Woman’s Voice in Baroque Music: Mariane von Ziegler and J. S. Bach (Ashgate, 2008). His other publications include articles in BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute and the monograph Claude Debussy As I Knew Him and Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann (University of Rochester Press, 2003), with Samuel Hsu and Sidney Grolnic. In 2006, Peters received the William H. Scheide prize from the American Bach Society for his article, “A Reconsideration of Bach’s Role as Text Redactor in the Ziegler Cantatas” (BACH, 2005). He has presented his research at meetings of the American Musicological Society, American Bach Society, Bach Colloquium, and the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship. Peters serves as secretary-treasurer of the American Bach Society and on the executive committee of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship.

Title: “A Woman’s Poetry in Leipzig’s Churches: Mariane von Ziegler as Cantata Librettist”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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