CONTRIBUTOR:

Charles E. Brewer

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Music

INSTITUTION:

Florida State University

BIOGRAPHY:

Charles E. Brewer is a professor of musicology at Florida State University. His research and publications have encompassed studies of medieval music, William Billings, and music for early avant-garde films in the United States. He has written extensively on seventeenth-century musical life in Central Europe, including reviews, booklet notes, critical editions, studies on Athanasius Kircher, Giovanni Valentini, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, his monograph, The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat, and their Contemporaries, and has worked with both European and American ensembles to promote performances of this repertoire.