Dexter Edge


Dexter Edge is an American musicologist.

Academic career

Dexter Edge attended The Evergreen State College. He studied music history at the University of Southern California. He has taught music history at the Louisiana State University 1997-1999. 2002-2005 he was Senior Editor at the Packard Humanities Institute. He was a 2006 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and the "William J. Bouwsma" Fellow at the National Humanities Center. The recipient of an "Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship," Edge has published numerous scholarly articles on Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He is an authority on Mozart’s autograph manuscripts and an accomplished pianist. His scholarly work has appeared in such publications as The Cambridge Opera Journal, Revue de Musicologie, Mozart Jahrbuch, Eighteenth-Century Music, and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. He has also presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, the International Musicological Society, and the Mozart Society of America. Edge was also the executive editor of MUSA.
Since 2014, he has collaborated with David Black on an online edition in progress of newly discovered Mozart documents.

Ph.D. thesis

Many are available through Edge's on academia.edu.