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New York based David Butler Cannata, Associate Professor of Music History at the Boyer College of Music at Temple University, has written on various late-19th and early 20th century music topics, including particularly that rare phenomenon, the executant/composer/conductor.

He has been named a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2005-06) for his study of music and prayer entitled Intimatio Christi: Liszt's Musical Contemplations and his investigation of music and theology will continue in an article entitled "Messiaen Reads the Infancy Gospels--The Vingt Regards as Christological Exegesis".

Dr Cannata's monograph Rachmaninoff and the Symphony (Innsbruck 1999) and his preface for the Indiana University Press issue of Sergei Bertensson's and Jay Leyda's masterly Sergei Rachmaninoff--A Lifetime in Music (IUP, 2001) almost single-handedly has sparked academic interest in Rachmaninoff studies.

His article on Astor Piazzolla, Making It There: Piazzolla's New York Concerts, appeared in the Latin American Music Review (XXXIV / 1 2005) and his work on Granados, Goyescas Tabula Rasa or Requiebros will get you everywhere, will appear in the next issue of Imago Musicae (2006).

Dr Cannata is the guest editor for Flores Musicais: A Festschrift in Honor of Fernando Laires upon his 80th Birthday (Journal of the American Liszt Society, Vol. 54-55).