Dr. Marten Noorduin - Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Research Associate

• Since December 2025: Research Associate at the State Institute for Music Research
• 2022-2024: Research Associate, University of Music Lübeck.
• Since 2022: Coordinator for science communication, COST Action CA21161, A New Ecosystem of Early Music Studies (EarlyMuse).
• 2022: Research Fellowship, State Institute for Music Research, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin.
• 2017-2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford; Postdoctoral Associate, St Cross College.
• 2016: PhD, Musicology, University of Manchester.
• 2012: Master of Music, University of Manchester.
• 2011: Bachelor of Music (Piano), Fontys Conservatorium, Tilburg.
• 2009: Bachelor of Arts with Honours, Utrecht University.

Monographs and edited collections

• American Pianists and Anti-Americanism in Germany and Austria-Hungary around 1900: Berlin, Weimar, and Vienna (Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming).
• Special issue with co-editor Dr Annelies Andries, "Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century," Nineteenth-CenturyMusic Review, 22/2 (August 2025), partially open access:
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nineteenth-century-music-review/issue/28138A73B7C14B37F77A82D396AB13E8
• Beethoven's Tempo Indications, Manchester University (July 2016), open access: https://core.ac.uk/reader/80850490

Articles (peer review; selection)

• 'The Metronome Marks for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Context', Early Music, 49/1 (February 2021), 129-145, open access: https: //academic.oup.com/em/article/49/1/129/6276767.
• "Re-examining Czerny's and Moscheles's Metronome Marks for Beethoven's Piano Sonatas", Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 15/2 (August 2018), 209-235.

Contributions to edited volumes (selection)

• "'Favourite Pupils': Adele Lewing, Ethel Newcomb, and Transatlantic Career Strategies around 1900", in In a New Key: Studies of Women Pianists, eds. Natasha Loges & Joe Davies (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

• "The Rehearsal Practices of the London Philharmonic in the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century," in Practice in Context: Historically Informed Practices in Nineteenth-CenturyInstrumental Music, eds. Claire Holden, Eric F. Clarke, and Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey (Oxford University Press), pp. 66-83, https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197571385.003.0004.

• "Transcending Slowness in Beethoven's Late Style," in Manchester Beethoven Studies, ed. Barry Cooper and Matthew Pilcher (Manchester University Press, April 2023), pp. 214-243, https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526155696.00015.
• 'Beethoven's Indicators of Expression in his Piano Works', in Beethoven and the Piano. Philology, Context and Performance Practice (Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern, xvi), ed. Leonardo Miucci, Claudio Bacciagaluppi, Daniel Allenbach and Martin Skamletz (Argus, Schliengen: 2023), pp. 118-136. Open Access: https: //www.hkb-interpretation.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Publikationen/Bd.16/HKB16_06_Noorduin_118-136.pdf

• "The Foreign Tours of Charles Hallé as Viewed in the Contemporary International Press", in Musical History as Seen through Contemporary Eyes: Essays in Honour of H. Robert Cohen, ed. Benjamin Knysak and Zdravko Blažeković (Vienna: Hollitzer, 2021), pp. 45-56. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2gz3zgx.5.

Other publications (selection)

• 'Review of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: Rehearsing and Performing its 1824 Premiere by Theodore Albrecht', The Beethoven Journal, 36 (2024), 1-8, Open Access: https: //scholarworks.sjsu.edu/beethovenjournal/vol36/iss1/5/.

• "[Review of] W. Dean Sutcliffe, Instrumental Music in an Age of Sociability: Haydn, Mozart and Friends (Cambridge University Press, 2020). xiv + 598 pp. £135 (hb). ISBN 9781107013810", Music Analysis, 42/1 (March 2023), 152-158.

• "Why do we need another recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?", Nineteenth-CenturyMusic Review, 18/3 (December 2021), 601-609.

• "[Conference Report] Beethoven and the Piano: Philology, Context and Performance Practice, 4-7 November 2020, Lugano", Eighteenth-CenturyMusic, 18/2 (September 2021), 327-331.

• "Is There Any Scope for Another Edition of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas?", Nineteenth-CenturyMusic Review, 17/2 (August 2020), 329-340.

• "[Review of Theodor Albrecht's edition of Beethoven's Konversationshefte, Vols. 1 & 2]", Notes, June 2020 (vol. 76, no. 4), 588-90.

• "[Review of] Anton Eberl, ed. Martin Harlow Sonata op. 20 Launton: Edition HH, 2017 pp. xi + 38, isbn 978 1 910359 38 9", Eighteenth-CenturyMusic, 15/1 (March 2018), 86-88.

• "Czerny's 'Impossible' Metronome Marks", The Musical Times, 125 (Winter 2013), 19-46.

• "Das Materielle, Das Künstlerische und das Soziale: Ensembleproben in und um Berlin und London, 1813-1869", 5 July 2025, Ostseeraum-Kolloquium, Europa-Universität Flensburg.

• "Tempo, Taubheit und Transzendenz in Beethovens Spätwerk", 12 January 2023, lecture series "Musikalische Interpretation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert", Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.

• "'You play exactly as if you came from America.' Transatlantic relations and anti-American reservations in the musical life of the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 1880-1915", 20 May 2022, Ostseeraum-Kolloquium, University of Greifswald.

• "The Court Concerts in Berlin in the Nineteenth Century", 25 March 2022, Nederlandse Strijkkwartet Academie, Amsterdam.

• "Transcending Slowness in Beethoven's Late Style", 1 October 2021, Performance Analysis Group, University of Aberdeen.

• "Transcending Slowness in Beethoven's Late Style", 26 March 2021, Nederlandse Strijkkwartet Academie, Amsterdam.

• "Understanding Beethoven's Tempo Indications", Beethoven unter der Lupe: Ringvorlesung Winter Semester 2020-2021, 6 January 2021, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Available online: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFSrtMrztFk

• "Towards an Understanding of Early to Mid-Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Rehearsal Practices in London", Music Research Colloquium, 3 December 2019, University of Oxford.

• "'Why don't you get a real job?' In Praise of Studying and Doing Useless Things", Commencement Speech, 7 June 2019, University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University.

• "Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: History, Performance, Analysis", 3 April 2019, University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University.

• "Issues in Historically Informed Performance: Playing with History?", Music in Context Guest Lecture Series, 29 March 2017, University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University.

• "An Historical Approach to Beethoven's Tempos", The Sir John Manduell Research Forum Series, 18 January 2017, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.

• "Beethoven’s Indications of Tempo and Expression", 30. März 2022, Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6395028

• The material, the artistic and the social: ensemble rehearsals in and around Berlin and London, 1813-1869