American Beethoven Society's Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Creative Scholarship (2007): Susan Kagan, Hunter College

AT THE SECOND BIENNIAL CONVENTION of The American Beethoven Society co-sponsored with The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San José State University, the Society and Center presented Dr. Susan Kagan, emeritus faculty at Hunter College, with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Performance, Scholarship, and Leadership in Beethoven Studies on July 27, 2007.

Dr. Kagan has enjoyed a long career as a scholar, pianist, critic, educator, and administrator. She earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of CUNY in 1983. Her dissertation on the music of Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven's only composition student, was published by Pendragon Press in 1988 under the title Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven's Patron, Pupil, and Friend, and quickly became die standard reference guide to the composer...