Qualifications and professional associations
BA majoring in English and German, University of Auckland, 1981
BMus majoring in Composition, University of Auckland, 1983
MA in English and German, University of Auckland, 1983
MPhil, "Analytical Approaches to the Piano Sonatas of Haydn", University of Cambridge, 1985
PhD, "The Piano Trios of Haydn", University of Cambridge, 1988
Committee of Honour, Haydn Society of Great Britain
Member of the American Musicological Society
Member of the Royal Musical Association
Member of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music
Research
Research areas or topics
- Defining the notion of sociability in relation to the instrumental music of the later eighteenth century
- The tempo di menuetto finale in later eighteenth-century music, with particular reference to Haydn
- The slow movement of the late eighteenth-century keyboard sonata, with particular reference to Clementi
- Editing string quartets of the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with current reference to Gyrowetz and Romberg
- Iberian keyboard music of the earlier eighteenth century, with particular reference to Seixas, Scarlatti and Albero
- The string chamber music of Boccherini
Current research
This includes an edited collection of essays on Domenico Scarlatti for Ut Orpheus Edizioni, Bologna, a chapter on Luigi Boccherini's Op. 32 string quartets and an edition of Gyrowetz's Op. 42 string quartets.
Key publications
- Sutcliffe, W. Dean (1992). Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 50 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Korean translation, Seoul: Imprima, 2005. Spanish translation of Chapters 1 and 2 as "Los orígenes del cuarteto de cuerda: las primeras colecciones de cuartetos de Haydn" in Quodlibet 31 (2005), 30-55.
- Sutcliffe, W. Dean (2003). The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Sutcliffe, W. Dean (2003). "Change and Constancy in Mozart's Keyboard Variations K. 180, K. 354 and K. 455". Mozart-Jahrbuch 2003-2004, 73-93.
- Sutcliffe, W. Dean (2004). The Early String Quartet, Volume 3. Adalbert Gyrowetz: Three String Quartets, Op. 44. Ann Arbor: Steglein Publishing.
- Sutcliffe, W. Dean (2004-) Eighteenth-Century Music (editor). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1/1, 2004, 1/2, 2004, 2/1, 2005, 2/2, 2005, 3/1, 2006, 3/2, 2006.
Distinctions and awards
University of Auckland:
Annual Prize in German (1979)
Annual Prize in English (1980)
Christine Roigard Memorial Prize (German) (1980)
Bishop Music Scholarship (Junior) (1980)
Senior Scholarship in English (1981)
Senior Scholarship in German (1981)
Bishop Music Scholarship (Senior) (1981)
Senior Prize in Music (1982)
Senior Scholarship in Music (1983)
Fowlds Prize (highest marks in Faculty of Arts / M.A.) (1983)
Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Prince of Wales Scholarship (1984)
University of Cambridge:
Research Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1987)
Pilkington Prize for Teaching, University of Cambridge (1999)
Readership in Eighteenth-Century Music, University of Cambridge (2004)
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profile last updated: 15/11/2006