Tom Beghin

professor
Research fellow
Orpheus Institute
Belgium

Biography

Tom Beghin has been at the forefront of a new generation of interpreters of 18th- and early 19th-century music. His discography features Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Moscheles, C.P.E. Bach, Mendelssohn, Zelter, Schubert, and Clementi. He has published in journals such as Keyboard Perspectives, 19th Century Music and Haydn Studien, and in collections such as Haydn and His World, The Cambridge Companion to Haydn, or The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory. With classicist Sander Goldberg he edited Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, winner of the 2009 Ruth Solie Award from the American Musicological Society. Forthcoming from the The University of Chicago Press is his monograph The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First Century Keyboardist

Research Intrest

He is presently focusing his artistic research on the piano works of Ludwig van Beethoven and the intersection of technology and rhetoric. 

List of Publications
Beghin T. Forkel and Haydn: A rhetorical framework for the analysis of Sonata Hob. XVI: 42 (D).
Woszczyk W, Beghin T, de Francisco M, Ko D. Recording multichannel sound within virtual acoustics. InAudio Engineering Society Convention 127 2009 Oct 1. Audio Engineering Society.
Beghin T, Goldberg SM, editors. Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric. University of Chicago Press; 2007.