Background
He was born in Everett, Washington, but raised in Merrill, Wisconsin, from early childhood.
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One of the most intriguing questions in all of music history is why the people of 18th-century Prague were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most ardent admirers.- both during his lifetime and following his untimely death. Dr. Daniel E. Freeman's MOZART in PRAGUE combines scholarly expertise and personal appreciation for one of the world's most beautiful cities to answer this question definitively. Bringing to life the richness of Czech history and the cultural vibrancy of 18th century Prague, Dr. Freeman's MOZART in PRAGUE vividly depicts Mozart and his contemporaries including the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, composer Josef Mysliveček, Prague musical icons František and Josefa Dušek, the legendary Giacomo Casanova, Marie Antoinette, the emperor Leopold II, and many others, explaining how the composer's ties to Prague resulted in such masterpieces as DON GIOVANNI, LA CLEMENZA di TITO, the "PRAGUE" SYMPHONY, and more. Musicologist Dr. Daniel E. Freeman is the world's leading authority on 18th-century Czech music who was born outside of the Czech Republic. He teaches music history at the University of Minnesota and has appeared frequently as a lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and at scholarly conferences throughout the United States and Europe. His additional works include JOSEF MYSLIVEČEK: "IL BOEMO" - THE MAN and HIS MUSIC, and THE OPERA THEATER of COUNT ANTON VON SPORCK.
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He was born in Everett, Washington, but raised in Merrill, Wisconsin, from early childhood.
Degree in piano performance at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1981 and also studied piano as a non-degree candidate at Indiana University with James Tocco. He studied musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Master of Music, 1983, Doctor of Philosophy, 1987), where his teachers included Bruno Nettl, John Walter Hill, Nicholas Temperley, and Herbert Kellman.
He is also active as a pianist and music editors He earned a Bachelor of Music His dissertation "The Opera Theater of Count Franz Anton von Sporck in Prague (1724-1735)" was revised and published in 1992 as the first monograph devoted to the musical cultural of eighteenth-century Prague or the Bohemian lands ever written in English. This work has been followed by two other books concerned with music-making in eighteenth-century Prague: Josef Mysliveček, "Il Boemo" (2009) and Mozart in Prague (2013).
Number other musicologist of any nationality has succeeded in completing three separate monographs on the same subject matter.
The biography of Josef Mysliveček is partially the basis of a screenplay written by Czechoslovakian film director Petr Václav that is scheduled to be produced by January Macola of Mimesis Film with a planned release date of 2017. Freeman has taught music history at the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California, and the University of Minnesota, where he is a lecturer.
Since 2002, he has appeared frequently as a resident associate of the Smithsonian Institution. His research has been supported by grants from the International Research & Exchanges Board, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Newberry Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Besides his monographs, Freeman has published essays on Italian opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, eighteenth-century keyboard music, and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach sons, Antonio Vivaldi, and Josquin des Prez.
He has also published editions of the music of Josef Mysliveček and Giovanni Benedetto Platti and was a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) and the revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001). Freeman"s essay “An 18th-Century Singer’s Commission of ‘Baggage’ Arias,” originally published in the journal Early Music in 1992, was re-printed as a classic study about baroque opera in Opera Remade, 1700-1750 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010).
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