David Buch

David J. Buch, Professor of Music History, attended the Academia Musical Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and earned his M. M. and PhD in Music History from Northwestern University. Professor Buch is active in research on music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His writings have appeared in Acta Musicologica, Musical Quarterly, Imago Musicae, Revue de musicologie, the Cambridge Opera Journal, MLA Notes, Opera Journal, Acta Mozartiana, Deutschsprachiges Theater in Prag, Proceedings of the International Musicological Society, The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, the Mozart Jahrbuch, Maske und Kothurn, The Cambridge Companion to Mozart, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Hudební veda, Studia Musicologia, L'Avant Scène Opera, The New Grove Dictionary, the Journal of the Lute Society of America, and other periodicals. His translation and edition of the seventeenth-century lute manuscript, La Rhetorique des dieux is published by A-R Editions, and his book Dance Music from the Ballets de cour is published by Pendragon Press. His most recent book (2002) is Schikaneders heroisch-komische Oper ‘Der Stein der Weisen’–-Modell für Mozarts ‘Zauberflöte’. Kritische Ausgabe des Textbuchs (written with Manuela Jahrmärker). His current book project, "Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests : Music and the Supernatural in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre," will be published by the University of Chicago Press. He is now preparing the critical edition of the opera Der Stein der Weisen (Vienna, 1790) for A-R Editions. His research has received international attention owing to the discovery of new attributions to Mozart in that opera.  

Professor Buch has received the Iowa Board of Regents Award for Faculty Excellence (1999), the University of Northern Iowa Distinguished Scholar Award (1998-1999) and the Donald N. McKay Research Award (1998).

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