Robert Wrigley

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Robert B. Wrigley is a musicologist specializing in the intellectual history of music in the long nineteenth century. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology at The Graduate Center, CUNY and holds a master’s degree from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and the bachelor’s degree from the University of Puget Sound. His dissertation, “Symphonies for God: Joseph Haydn’s Masses in Church and Concert Hall,” considers the reception of Joseph Haydn’s liturgical music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a counterpoint to conventional narratives of canonization, Kunstreligion, and musical meaning.