Mary Lucia Darst

Degrees BM (Hons) Viola (Washburn University); BA (Hons) in History and French; MA in History and Literature (Columbia University)
Course DPhil Musicology
College St Hilda's
Address St Hilda's College
Oxford OX4 1DY

Opera history, performance practice, classical antiquity, literary history

Using the composers Johann Christian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and their shared teacher, Padre Gianbattista Martini, my thesis explores the sharing of ideas, musical, literary, and historiographical, especially those relating to classical antiquity, in a specific professional network.