About
E. Douglas Bomberger has been a professor of music at Elizabethtown College since 2005, teaching music history and piano. He previously taught for eleven years at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He has published extensively on nineteenth-century American music and served as area editor for nineteenth-century music for the Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition. He was honored with Elizabethtown College’s 2019 Ranck Prize for Research Excellence. Education
Ph.D., musicology, University of Maryland-College Park, 1991
M.M., piano performance, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1983
B.A., music and French, Goshen (IN) College, 1981
Publications
Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
“Very Good for an American”: Essays on Edward MacDowell. Ed. E. Douglas Bomberger. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 2017.
“Theodore Presser before The Etude.” American Music Teacher 66/4 (February/March 2017): 6–11; 66/5 (April/May 2017): 24–30; 66/6 (June/July 2017): 20–2.
MacDowell. Master Musicians Series. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
An Index to Music Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883–1957. MLA Index and Bibliography Series, No. 31. Lanham, MD, Toronto, and Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
“A Tidal Wave of Encouragement”: American Composers’ Concerts in the Gilded Age. Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2002.
Brainard’s Biographies of American Music, ed. E. Douglas Bomberger. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood, 1999.
Projects
My attention is currently focused on the life and works of the remarkable composer and pianist Amy Beach (1867–1944). Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“‘Was Ever Woman so Tortured and so Tried?’ Ernestine Schumann-Heink and the German-American experience in World War I.” Society for American Music, Minneapolis, March 2020.
Memberships
Society for American Music
American Musicological Society
College Music Society
American Liszt Society
American Guild of Organists
