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Beyond aesthetic preference, compositional approaches reflect a music composer’s interior and exterior environment, personality, social habits, philosophy, and religion. Presupposing this premise, specific correlations between stylistic-technical choices and personal values are …

Bach’s Chaconne in D minor for solo violin is one of the most famous pieces in the violin repertoire. Although Max Reger also wrote three important Chaconnes, these pieces are less familiar to musicians. Reger’s three Chaconnes—op. 42/4, op. 91/7 and op. 117/4—were composed duri…

Between March and November of 2020, I composed my piano cycle, Arcanum Perpetuum, in partial fulfillment of this dissertation. I consider this work to be a significant milestone in my compositional development not only due to its large scale but also because of its personal natu…