Author Biography

Craig M. Wright (Bachelor of Music, Eastman School of Music, 1966; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972) taught at the University of Kentucky for one year and has taught at Yale University for the past 38 years. He is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles on composers ranging from Leoninus to Mozart. Wright has also been the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Einstein and Kinkeldey Awards of the American Musicological Society, and the Dent Medal of the International Musicological Society. In 2004, he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago. He has also published LISTENING TO MUSIC and LISTENING TO WESTERN MUSIC, Sixth Editions (Schirmer Cengage Learning, 2011), and, with Bryan Simms, MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Media Update (Schirmer Cengage Learning, 2010). In 2010, Wright was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining fellow inductee, banjo player Steve Martin.