Mark Evan Bonds is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A former editor-in-chief of Beethoven Forum, he has written widely on the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, with a special interest in the intersections of music and philosophy. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study-Princeton, and the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF). His most recent books are The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography and Beethoven: Variations on a Life.