Jon W Finson

Jon Finson grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago and attended New Trier High School. He took his undergraduate degree at CU, Boulder, finishing with a Ph.D. at University of Chicago. After a year abroad in Vienna and Berlin supported by The Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, he took a position at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he taught the history of music and American Studies for 35 years. Finson has authored four previous books, including The Voices That Are Gone...See more

Jon Finson grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago and attended New Trier High School. He took his undergraduate degree at CU, Boulder, finishing with a Ph.D. at University of Chicago. After a year abroad in Vienna and Berlin supported by The Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, he took a position at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he taught the history of music and American Studies for 35 years. Finson has authored four previous books, including The Voices That Are Gone (Oxford University Press, 1994), and Robert Schumann: The Book of Songs (Harvard University Press, 2007). In 2013 the Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft (Zwickau) bestowed its highest honor on him for outstanding scholarship and editorial work in the promotion of the composer's symphonies and songs. Finson's award-winning edition of Schumann's D-minor Symphony (1841 version; Breitkopf & Hartel, 2003) is available on CD and DVD in a performance by the Berlin Philharmonic under the leadership of Sir Simon Rattle. See less