David E. Schneider is Professor of Music at Amherst College where he has taught music history, theory, and chamber music since 1997. A graduate of Harvard College (A.B.) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D.), he is the author of Bartók, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition (University of California Press, 2006), and has published articles and reviews in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music and Letters, Notes, Studia Musicologica, Bartók and his World, The Cambridge Companion to Bartók, and The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto. Support for his work has been provided by grants from the American Musicological Society, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the H. Axel Schupf 1957 fund for Intellectual Life at Amherst College. A former professional clarinetist, he has recorded Copland’s Clarinet Concerto on AFKA Records as well as chamber works written for him on Albany Records. He is currently working on a collection of critical essays on the concerto. 

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