Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes is Reader in Musicology at the University of Surrey. He is the author of Szymanowski as Post-Wagnerian (1994), Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology (2003) and The Muse as Eros: Music, Eroticism and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination (2006). In 1999 he was awarded the Karol Szymanowski Memorial Medal.