Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, School of Music
Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Fine and Applied Arts
Highlighted Publications
Sposato, J. S. (2018). Leipzig After Bach: Church and Concert Life in a German City. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190616953.001.0001
Sposato, J. S. (2005). The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195149746.001.0001
Recent Publications
Sposato, J. S. (2018). Leipzig After Bach: Church and Concert Life in a German City. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190616953.001.0001
Sposato, J. S. (2017). Bach, die Messe und der lutherische Gottesdienst in Leipzig. In A. Hartinger, C. Wolff, & P. Wollny (Eds.), Geistliche Musik und Chortradition im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Institutionen, Klangideale und Repertoires im Umbruch (pp. 101-122). (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Bach-Rezeption; Vol. 6). Breitkopf & Härtel.
Sposato, J. S. (2016). Schicht, Hauptmann, Mendelssohn and the Consumption of Sacred Music in Leipzig. In C. Bashford, & R. M. Marvin (Eds.), The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930 (pp. 250-273). (Music in Society and Culture). Boydell and Brewer Ltd. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1c3gx42.20
Sposato, J. S. (2015). Creative Writing: The [Self-] Identification of Mendelssohn as Jew. In B. Taylor (Ed.), Mendelssohn (pp. 461-480). (The Early Romantic Composers). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315091242-20
Sposato, J. S. (2013). Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. In D. M. Di Grazia (Ed.), Nineteenth-Century Choral Music (pp. 141-149). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203115183