dr. R.M. (Rutger) Helmers


  • Faculty of Humanities
    Capaciteitsgroep Muziekwetenschap
  • Nieuwe Doelenstraat  16-18
    1012 CP  Amsterdam
    Room number: 1.07
  • R.M.Helmers@uva.nl

Rutger Helmers (1980) is Assistant Professor of Musicology, specialized in nineteenth-century music history, Russian music, opera, and nationalism. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2012 at Utrecht University under the supervision of Emile Wennekes and Marina Frolova-Walker (Clare College, University of Cambridge) with his dissertation Not Russian Enough: The Negotiation of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Opera. Outside the University of Amsterdam, he has taught at the Musicology programme at Utrecht University and Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. His current research focuses on musicians' travels in the nineteenth century.

2014

2010

  • R.M. Helmers (2010). ‘It Just Reeks of Italianism': Traces of Italian Opera in 'A Life for the Tsar'. Music & Letters, 91 (3), 376-405. doi: 10.1093/ml/gcq058

2010

  • R.M. Helmers (2010). Rimsky-Korsakov, 'The Tsar’s Bride', and the Fate of Music in the 20th Century. In L. Ader & J. Powell (Eds.), N. A. Rimskij-Korsakov i ego nasledie v istoričeskoj perspektive: materialy meždunarodnoj muzykovedečnoj konferencii (pp. 335-341). St Petersburg: GMTTiMI.
  • R.M. Helmers (2010). N. A. Rimskij-Korsakov, 'Tsarskaja nevesta' i sud'ba muzyki v XX veke. In L. Ader & J. Powell (Eds.), N. A. Rimskij-Korsakov i ego nasledie v istoričeskoj perspektive: materialy meždunarodnoj muzykovedečnoj konferencii (pp. 90-97). St Petersburg: GMTiMI.

2014

  • R.M. Helmers (2014). Preface. In Sergei Rachmaninow: Aleko (Opera Explorer. Study Score, 2028). München: Höflich.
  • R.M. Helmers (2014). Preface. In Gioacchino Rossini: Matilde di Shabran, Ouvertüre (study score) (Repertoire Explorer, 1239). Munich: Musikproduktion Höflich.

2013

  • R. Helmers (2013). Preface. In Alexander Borodin. Das Meer: orchestriert von Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakow (Repertoire Explorer. Study Score, 1367). München: Musikproduktion Höflich.

2010

  • R.M. Helmers (2010). [Review of the book Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts]. Nexus, 54, 155-158.
  • R.M. Helmers (2010). [Review of the books Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music & For the Love of Music: Invitations to Listening & The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art]. Nexus, 57, 201-205.

2012

  • R.M. Helmers (2012, February 02). Not Russian Enough: The Negotiation of Nationalionalism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Opera. Universiteit Utrecht (255 pag.). Supervisor(s): E. Wennekes & M. Frolova-Walker.
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