Conservatory of Music

Sarah Clemmens Waltz

Sarah Clemmens Waltz joined the faculty in the fall of 2007. She holds both a B.A. in physics from Oberlin College and a B.M. in musicology from Oberlin Conservatory, where she also studied flute with Michel Debost and Kathleen Chastain.  She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in May 2007.  Her dissertation, "The Highland Muse in Romantic German Music," concerns the image of Scotland in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century German composition and criticism.

Dr. Waltz has received several grants, including the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (honorary).  In addition, she has presented papers at many national and international conferences. Her article "In Defense of Moonlight," on Beethoven's piano sonata op. 27, no. 2, is forthcoming in Beethoven Forum.  Much of her research involves the rise of music criticism, musical biography, and the performing canon.  Her composers of interest include Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. She is particularly interested in style and convention, especially of regional or national expression (including musical images of Scotland, England, and America).  She also researches the history of science and technology and its interaction with the history of music.

Dr. Waltz is a member of the American Musicological Society, the College Music Society, and the Society for the History of Technology.

At the Conservatory, Dr. Waltz teaches Music History.

Conservatory of Music
University of the Pacific
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Stockton, CA 95211
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  Sarah Clemmens Waltz