Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Mark Everist is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on the music of Western Europe in the period 1150-1330, opera in France in the nineteenth century, Mozart, reception theory and historiography. He is the author of Polyphonic Music in Thirteenth-Century France (1989), French Motets in the Thirteenth Century (1994), Music Drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828 (2002), Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2005) and Mozart's Ghosts: Haunting the Halls of Musical Culture (2013) as well as the editor of three volumes of the Magnus Liber Organi for Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre (2001-2003). In addition, he has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and collections of essays. The recipient of the Solie (2010) and Slim (2011) awards of the American Musicological Society, he was elected a fellow of the Academia Europaea in 2012. Everist was president of the Royal Musical Association from 2011-2017 and was elected a corresponding member of the American Musicological Society in 2014. His monograph Discovering Medieval Song: Latin Poetry and Music in the Conductus was published with Cambridge University Press in 2018, as was The Cambridge History of Medieval Music, co-edited with Thomas Kelly. A monograph on the reception of Gluck in the nineteenth century has just been completed.