About the Author

John A. Rice is a freelance writer and teacher devoted to the exploration of music as part of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century society. After studying music history under Daniel Heartz at the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1987) he taught at the University of Washington (1987–88), Colby College (1988–90), the University of Houston (1990–97), and the University of Texas at Austin (1999). More recently he has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh (2010–11) and the University of Michigan (2012–13). He has received grants from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society. He has written many articles and several books, most recently Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance: The Emergence of a Musical Icon, published in 2022 by the University of Chicago Press. Rice has  lectured widely in both the United States and Europe. His Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera received the Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society. He has served as president of the Mozart Society of America and of the Southwest Chapter of the AMS, and as a member of the board of directors of the AMS. He is an elected member of the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung in Salzburg.

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