Biography:
Dr. Alan Houtchens holds degrees in musicology and French horn performance from the University of Colorado, the University of Wyoming, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. On the music faculty at Texas A&M University since 1989, he has developed a variety of courses in music history, three dealing specifically with rather unusual interdisciplinary topics: War in Twentieth-Century Poetry and Music (team-taught with Professor Janis Stout of the English Department), The Faust Legend in Music, and Music Among the Arts. Other courses he teaches include Music in Early Western Culture, Music in Modern Western Culture, The Life and Music of Mozart, The Life and Music of Beethoven, and Late Nineteenth-Century Masters. He is an authority on the life and times of Antonín Dvorák, and primarily focuses his research and publishing activities on topics concerned with Czech culture.
