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Carlo Caballero

University of Colorado
Department of Music

Carlo Caballero is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  His research focuses on Western European music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  His work on composers such as Fauré and Dukas has pursued a cross-disciplinary approach to the history of the arts and ideas while also seeking evidence in musical structure.  His latest project examines the persistence of eighteenth-century social and aesthetic values in nineteenth-century Paris.

Project Summary

"French Music and the Imagination of Classicism" begins the project of rewriting the history of 19th-century music from the perspective of French rather than German culture, and culminates in a revisionist account of twentieth-century "neoclassicism."  The book re-evaluates cultural exchanges between the two national traditions, analyzes French resistance to romanticism, and highlights the powerful influence eighteenth-century values continued to exert in France on genres ranging from ballet to chamber music.