Department of Fine and Performing Arts

Faculty: Ora Frishberg Saloman

Ora Frishberg Saloman (PhD, Columbia University) is Professor of Music at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is a historical musicologist whose research interests include music, and reception history of works, by Beethoven, Gluck, Le Sueur, and Berlioz; history of opera and of music criticism; nineteenth-century genre theories of symphony and opera; and European-American connections in aesthetics, social history, and concert life. She is author of Beethoven's Symphonies and J. S. Dwight: the Birth of American Music Criticism (Northeastern University Press, 1995), and has contributed essays to " European Music and Musicians in New York City, 1840-1900 (Eastman Studies in Music) (University of Rochester Press, 2006), Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft: Festschrift Walter Wiora (Hans Schneider, 1997), Music and the French Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 1992), and Music and Civilization: Essays in Honor of Paul Henry Lang (Norton, 1984). Her writings have also appeared in " Journal of Musicological Research, The Opera Quarterly, Acta Musicologica, The Musical Quarterly, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, The Journal of Musicology, American Music, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Music and Man, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, International Dictionary of Opera, The Dallas Opera Magazine, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Second Edition, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Reader’s Guide to Music, American National Biography, Music and Letters, The Encyclopedia of New England, after American National Biography, and Notes. She served as a member of the editorial advisory board of American Music (1995-97). She was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, and grants from Baruch College, the Research Foundation of CUNY, and a Fulbright Fellowship from the Institute for International Education. She was a Visiting Scholar in Residence at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1999).

She served as Chair of the Baruch College Department of Music (1978-84), leader of the Baruch Faculty String Quartet (1972-77), violinist of the Baruch Faculty Trio (1976-83), and concertmaster of the Baruch Chamber Orchestra (1972-87). Email: ora_saloman@baruch.cuny.edu.