Daniil Zavlunov
Associate Professor of Music (Musicology), Associate Dean of the School of Music
Daniil Zavlunov is a musicologist specializing in nineteenth-century opera. His scholarship progresses along three broad but intersecting avenues of inquiry: cultural history and historiography; intellectual thought about music, which includes both aesthetics and theory; and the study of musical works - their creative history, language, structure, and style.
- PhD, musicology, Princeton University
- MA, musicology, Princeton University
- BA, music and history, Queens College, CUNY
Biography
Daniil Zavlunov is a musicologist specializing in nineteenth-century music, with a particular emphasis on Russian and Italian operatic traditions. His research has focused on the works and the world of Mikhail Glinka. At present, Dr. Zavlunov is completing a cultural history of opera in Russia during the reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855), which draws heavily on new archival sources. His other scholarly interests include opera and censorship, Soviet music and intellectual thought about music, theories of musical form, and music analysis. His research has appeared in The Journal of Musicology, Cambridge Opera Journal, Music Theory Online, Journal of Music Theory, Russian Literature, Music & Politics and elsewhere. Before coming to Stetson, he held visiting appointments - teaching music history and theory - at Princeton University, Dartmouth, Skidmore and Haverford Colleges.
More About Daniil Zavlunov
Areas of Expertise
- Glinka
- 19th-Century Russian and Italian Opera
- Opera and Censorship
- History of Music Theory (especially Soviet)
- Music Analysis
Course Sampling
- History of European Music: before 1700
- History of European Music: 1700-1900
- History of Musical Modernism
- History of Russian Music
- Music and Social Injustice
- Senior Research
- Glinka
- Mid-19th-Century Russian and Italian Opera
- Intersection of Music and Politics
- Opera Censorship
- Canon Formation and Reception
- Music Historiography
- History of Music Theory
- Music Analysis
- “L’invenzione di Glinka nel tempo: temi controversi, metodologie dubbie, storiografie falsate” [Inventing Glinka Across Time: Contentious Themes, Dubious Methodologies, False Historiographies”] (forthcoming)
- Review-Essay: “Boris Godunov (1869) and Eugene Onegin (1878): Non-operas in Seven Lyrical Scenes, Dramatic Glue Optional,” Nineteenth-Century Music Review (October 2025 [online]): 1-18; Nineteenth-Century Music Review 23 (2026): 285–302
- “Topic Theory in Soviet Musicology,” Journal of Music Theory 66, no. 2 (October 2022): 189-222
- “Censoring the Muses: Opera and Creative Control in Nicholas’s Russia (1825-1855),” Cambridge Opera Journal 34, no. 1 (2022): 37-66
- “Alexander Mosolov’s Piano Sonata No. 1 and Its Synthetic Modernism,” in Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music: Tonality, Modernism, Serialism, Inessa Bazayev and Christopher Segall, eds (New York: Routledge, 2020)
- “Defining and Defending Music Analysis in the Soviet 1930s,” Music and Politics 14, no. 2 (Summer 2020),
- “Nicholas I and his Dramatic Censors Tackle Opera,” Russian Literature 113 (April-May 2020): 7-32