Andrew Deruchie

Dr. Andrew Deruchie specializes in orchestral and chamber music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a special emphasis on French topics. Areas of interest included intersections between compositional practice and cultural history, aesthetics, musical form, and digital methods. He is the author of The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle: Style, Culture, and the Symphonic Tradition (University of Rochester Press)

 

  • In the faculty

    • Assistant Professor, Music History
    • Intro to Music in History 1 (MUSC 1004)
    • Romantic Music History (MUSC 3084)
    • Classical Music History (MUSC 3074)
    • The Musical Culture of Belle Epoque France (MUSC 3830)

     

Academic work

Deruchie specializes in orchestral and chamber music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a special emphasis on French topics. Areas of interest included intersections between compositional practice and cultural history, aesthetics, musical form, and digital methods.

Andrew is the author of The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle: Style, Culture, and the Symphonic Tradition (University of Rochester Press), of which Nineteenth Century Music Reviews said the following: "Immensely valuable: rich in insights, meticulously presented, Deruchie's book shows. . . each work to be as cunningly crafted and tightly unified as the Germanic works to whose standards they have always been held and usually found wanting." Deruchie is also the author of publications on Saint-Saëns, d’Indy, and Mahler.

Currently an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Manitoba, Andrew has also taught music history and music theory at Douglas College, the University of Otago, and the University of Ottawa.

Awards

The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle: Style, Culture, and the Symphonic Tradition was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title in 2014.