Stephen Hinton

Stephen Hinton (born 1955, London, England) is a British-American musicologist at Stanford University. A leading authority on the composer Kurt Weill, he has published widely on many aspects of modern German music history, with contributions to publications such as '''', ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', and '' Musikgeschichte''. His most recent book, ''Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform'' (University of California Press: Berkeley, 2012), the first musicological study of Weill's complete stage works, received the 2013 Kurt Weill Book Prize for outstanding scholarship in music theater since 1900. The reviewer for the Journal of the American Musicological Society described the book as "a landmark in the literature on twentieth-century musical theater." Provided by Wikipedia