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B.A. Swarthmore College, Ph.D. University of
Pennsylvania
 Peter Bloom did his B.A. at Swarthmore College, his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, and he studied the oboe under John de Lancie at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Bloom came to Smith College as instructor in music in 1970. He moved through the ranks and in 2000 became the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities.
For over thirty years his scholarly interests have focused primarily on the life and work of Hector Berlioz and on music in nineteenth-century France.
His teaching has included an introductory survey of the history of western music and upper level courses on the music of the classic and romantic periods with particular attention to Beethoven, Berlioz, and Wagner.
From 1997 through 2003 Peter Bloom was a member of the Comité International Hector Berlioz that planned colloquia and exhibitions, in Europe and the United States, on the occasion of the two-hundredth anniversary of the composer's birth. In 2003 his critical edition of Berlioz's Grand Traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes appeared in the New Berlioz Edition; the papers from the international conference that took place at Smith College in 2000 appeared from the University of Rochester Press as Berlioz: Past, Present, Future; and the Dictionnaire Berlioz that he edited with Pierre Citron, Cécile Reynaud and Jean-Pierre Bartoli appeared in Paris from Fayard. A new collection of essays, Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work, appeared in 2008. He is currently at work on a new critical edition of Debussy’s String Quartet, for the Œuvres Complètes de Claude Debussy, and on the first fully critical edition in French of the Mémoires d'Hector Berlioz. |
