Bruce Alan Brown, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Bruce Alan Brown (PhD 1986, University of California, Berkeley), Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), specializes in later eighteenth-century opera and ballet, in particular the music of Gluck and Mozart. His publications include Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna (Oxford, 1991); critical editions (Kassel: Bärenreiter) of Gluck’s Le Diable à quatre (1992), L’Arbre enchanté  (Versailles version, 2010; Viennese version. 2015), and Cythère assiegée (1759 version, in preparation); W. A. Mozart: Così fan tutte (Cambridge, 1995); The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage (ed., with Rebecca Harris-Warrick; Madison, WI, 2005); and numerous articles. From 2005 to 2007 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and he served as President of the Mozart Society of America from 2019 to 2023. He is a member of the editorial board of the Gluck-Gesamtausgabe (Mainz) and of the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung (Salzburg).