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Salvatore Calomino

Salvatore Calomino

Salvatore Calomino is Associate Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. Among Dr. Calomino's primary areas of research are Middle High German language and literature, medieval religious literature, and hagiography. In the latter fields he has published a book-length study on the legend of Saints Barlaam and Josaphat, From Verse to Prose: The Barlaam and Josaphat Legend in Fifteenth-Century Germany. He has also worked on the development of the "Faust" theme in both literary manifestations and its settings in music. On this topic Dr. Calomino delivered a lecture at the 2002 International Musicological Society Congress in Leuwen. Dr. Calomino has further published on twelfth- and thirteenth-century narrative with a particular focus on Tristan, and on the settings of medieval hymns in early twentieth-century music. His contributions to research on Gustav Mahler include articles on the Eighth Symphony dealing with the setting of the hymn in Part I as well as the depiction of the anchorites in Part II (2004-05). He has also written on the interpretation of saints and devotional figures by Mahler in the texts of his early symphonies (2006). Dr. Calomino is co-translator of the libretto for the critical edition of the Mahler/Weber opera Die drei Pintos (2000).