Jonathan Yaeger is a Professor of Music History at the Juilliard School and has served the department as chair since 2019. He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, with a focus on the music, politics, and culture of Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe. His courses seek to explore and question the putative boundaries separating peoples and musical styles, especially jazz and classical musics. This past semester he also taught Juilliard’s first-ever undergraduate music history course on American popular music. Outside the classroom, Professor Yaeger is working on a book about the conductor Kurt Masur and his tenure leading the famous Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, especially in the pivotal year of 1989. His publications on the topic include articles in the edited volumes Classical Music in the GDR and Music and Diplomacy. Yaeger has presented papers at the American Musicological Society, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Leipzig Stasi Archive, among others.
