Scholarship & Research
A searchable register of dissertations, treatises, doctoral documents, articles, and academic studies on Lera Auerbach’s music.
Dissertations & Treatises
Chenxin Wang
The Many Voices of the Violin: Lera Auerbach’s Works for Solo and Ensemble
A current University of Miami doctoral capstone project centered on Auerbach’s violin writing, including a complete recital performance of 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano and program notes on the work’s form, technique, color, and relationship to the 24-prelude tradition.
Madison Ryan
Expanding the Repertoire: A Presentation of Violin Concertos Composed by Women
A broader doctoral lecture-recital essay on violin concertos by women composers. It includes a dedicated Auerbach section on Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, its commission by the American Youth Symphony, premiere, instrumentation, and repertoire context.
John Vandevert
Lera Auerbach and her Re-invention of the Wheel
A focused analytical paper on Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano, treating the work’s cyclical design, stylistic synthesis, tonal/dissonant language, and the relationship between older formal models and contemporary expressive language.
Laura Colgate
Half of Humanity Has Something to Say, Also: Works for Violin by Women Composers
A broader dissertation-recital project on violin works by women composers. It includes Auerbach’s Speak, Memory among the recital repertoire and provides biographical and program-note material for the work.
Liang Yu-Han / 梁鈺函
Lera Auerbach <24 Preludes for Violin and Piano, Op. 46>
A Taiwanese graduate performance-report record on selected analysis and interpretation of Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano. The National Central Library record describes the study as engaging the prelude’s historical development and its interpretive implications for the work.
Florentine Gallwas
Lera Auerbach: Die drei Zyklen à 24 Präludien, Op. 41, 46 und 47
A German master’s thesis identified in MUGI and cited in later Auerbach scholarship. I did not locate a public full-text copy, but the bibliographic record should be included because it appears to be one of the earliest extended academic studies of Auerbach’s three 24-prelude cycles.
Minyoung Rho
Musical Borrowing and Its Meaning in Lera Auerbach's Ludwigs Alptraum and Clifton Callender's à la manière de
Examines contemporary piano works that deliberately reference earlier music and style; the Auerbach chapter studies quotation, motivic development, form, narrative, intertextuality, and polystylism in Ludwigs Alptraum.
Jeong Yun Yang
A Study of Selected Piano Works by Robert Chumbley and Lera Auerbach
A comparative doctoral treatise on selected piano works by Robert Chumbley and Lera Auerbach, with the Auerbach chapter focused on Diabellical Waltz and Piano Sonata No. 2 “Il Segno.”
Qianni Yang
Under the Pluralism Era: The Style Analysis of 24 Preludes for Piano, Op. 41 and Ten Dreams, Op. 45 by Lera Auerbach
Analyzes Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Piano and Ten Dreams as representative piano works shaped by pluralism, traditional forms, modern language, contrasting simplicity and complexity, and motivic/emotional connections.
Inyoung Kim
Lera Auerbach’s Postmodernist Artistic Expression: The Styles of Chorale, Fugue and Postlude, Op. 31 and 24 Preludes for Piano, Op. 41
Places Auerbach’s piano writing within postmodern artistic expression, identifying polystylism as a central lens and examining both Chorale, Fugue and Postlude and 24 Preludes for Piano.
Akiko Yamazaki
Pedagogical and Performance Guide of Lera Auerbach’s Images from Childhood, Op. 52
Provides a pedagogical and performance guide to Images from Childhood, treating the twelve intermediate piano character pieces as an opportunity to introduce contemporary music, pianistic skill, and expressive artistry.
Elena Victoria Nezhdanova-Cunningham
Performance Guide for 24 Preludes for Piano, Op. 41 by Lera Auerbach
A performance-oriented study of 24 Preludes for Piano that situates the cycle within the prelude tradition and addresses musical meaning, order, unity, and selected pedagogic analysis.
Tatiana Gorbunova
A Piano Sonata and 24 Preludes for Piano: Old Forms in the New Context
A two-part doctoral treatise whose first section analyzes Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Piano, addressing the prelude tradition, harmonic language, polystylism, motivic relationships, contrasting elements, and the role of pedaling.
Meily J. Mendez
Polystylism and Motivic Connections in Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Piano, Op. 41
Analyzes the form, polystylism, and motivic links across 24 Preludes for Piano, including structural signposts, recurring motivic patterns, and unifying relationships within the cycle.
Joshua Luke Holritz
A Player’s Guide: Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano, Op. 46
A violinist’s guide to the Op. 46 preludes, with historical context, discussion of Auerbach’s contribution to the prelude genre, and practical attention to technical and musical decisions.
Kimberly Hain
Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano, Op. 46: Unity and Musical Narrative
Studies Auerbach’s Op. 46 as a unified cycle through direct quotation, two half-step motivic units, and musical narrative, including an interpretation of the preludes as a human-life trajectory.