Matthew Gardner Author & Editor

Matthew Gardner holds a Junior Professorship in Musicology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany in association with the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz. He has published widely on Handel and his English contemporaries, including Handel and Maurice Greene's Circle at the Apollo Academy: The Music and Intellectual Contexts of Oratorios, Odes and Masques (2008). In 2014, his edition of Handel's Wedding Anthems for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe received the International Handel Research Prize. Alison DeSimone is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. A recent publication, 'Equally Charming, Equally Too Great: Female Rivalry, Politics, and Opera in Early Eighteenth-Century London' in the Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal won the 2018 Ruth Solie Prize for an Outstanding Article on British Music from the North American British Music Studies Association. DeSimone's work has been supported by grants from the American Musicological Society, the American Handel Society, the Handel Institute, and the University of Missouri Research Board.