Prof. Caryl Leslie Clark
As a musicologist specializing in the Enlightenment, my primary focus is politics, social contexts, and performance practices in 18thC instrumental music and operas of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. I taught at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, from 1991-2023.
I have published three books with Cambridge University Press: The Cambridge Companion to Haydn (2005); Haydn’s Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage (Cambridge 2009); and The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia (2019).
My most frequently cited article is “Forging Identity: Beethoven’s ‘Ode’ as European Anthem,” Critical Inquiry 23/4 (1997).
Recent publications include “Writing Joseph Bologne into Musical History vis-à-vis Mozart: the ‘Symphonie Concertante’ from Paris to Salzburg,” Journal of the Royal Musicological Society 149/1 (2024); and “The Premiere of Haydn’s Orfeo in Florence (1951) – a Cold War Story,” Haydn Studies 2 (Cambridge UP, 2025).
A highlight of my career was producing the North American stage premiere of Haydn’s last opera, Orfeo, at the MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto, with the McGill Baroque Orchestra conducted by Dorian Bandy in May 2023. Three doctoral candidates recount their experiences in “Labours of Love,” Eighteenth-Century Music 21/1 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570623000386 . Dorian and I write about our imaginative, apocalyptic production in “Reassessing Haydn’s Orfeo in the Theatre,” HAYDN: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America 15 (2025)
https://remix.berklee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1131&context=haydn-journal
