Dexter Edge

Dexter Edge (born Boston, Massachusetts) is an American musicologist.

Academic career
Dexter Edge attended The Evergreen State College (BA, Interdisciplinary Arts). He studied music history at the University of Southern California (1983-1987, Ph.D., 1987). He has taught music history at the Louisiana State University 1997-1999. 2002-2005 he was Senior Editor at the Packard Humanities Institute (The Complete Works of Carl Philip Emanuel Bach). 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.

Book

 * Mozart's Viennese copyists. Ph.D. University of Southern California (2001) XLIV, 2416 p.

Editions

 * Le nozze di Figaro K. 492; facsimile of the autograph score, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Biblioteka Jagiellońska Kraków (Mus. ms. autogr. W. A. Mozart 492), Stanford University Library, the Juilliard School Library. Los Altos, California; Packard Humanities Institute; Kassel Bärenreiter.
 * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works.