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'{{for|the former Olympic swimmer|Nahum David Buch}} {{Infobox writer | name = David J. Buch | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1950}} | birth_place = [[Detroit]], Michigan | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = [[Musicology|Musicologist]] | education = PhD [[Northwestern University]] | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = Musicology, Mozart scholarship | movement = | notableworks = ''Der Stein der Weisen'',<br />''Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in the Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater'' | spouse = | awards = Donald N. McKay Research Award }} '''David Joseph Buch''' (born 1950) is an American [[musicologist]].<ref name="WorldCat" /> ==Life and career== Buch was born in [[Detroit]] and studied at the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]] and the [[Accademia Musicale Chigiana]] in [[Siena]], Italy. He received his PhD in [[Music History]] from [[Northwestern University]]. He had been Professor of Music at [[Wayne State University]] and Professor of Music History at the [[University of Northern Iowa]] (UNI), where he is Professor Emeritus. Buch was a visiting professor at the [[University of Chicago]] from 2008 until 2011. He has published numerous scholarly studies on a range of topics in music, having explored archives and libraries in many European cities.<ref name="Chicago Tribune" /> His research has received international attention{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} owing to the discovery of new attributions to [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] in [[Emanuel Schikaneder]]'s collaborative opera ''[[Der Stein der Weisen|Der Stein der Weisen oder Die Zauberinsel]]'' (Vienna, 1790). His study of the theatrical tradition in which Mozart's ''[[The Magic Flute]]'' originated has led him to new interpretations of the [[libretto]], notably skepticism to the widely held view that ''The Magic Flute'' is specifically a [[Freemasonry|Masonic]] opera (see [[Libretto of The Magic Flute]]). In 1998 he was named UNI Distinguished Scholar and received the Donald N. McKay Research Award.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} Buch plays the [[lute]], [[viola da gamba]] and guitar.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} He has performed with the [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]] under [[Claudio Abbado]], and as guest soloist with the Eckstein String Quartet (principals of the CSO).{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} ==Selected bibliography== * (1985) "Style brisé, style luthé, and the choses luthées", ''[[The Musical Quarterly]]'' 71: 52–67. * (1985) "The Influence of the Ballet de cour in the Genesis of the French Baroque Suite", ''[[Acta Musicologica]]'' 57: 94–109. * (1989) "The Coordination of Text, Illustration, and Music in a Seventeenth-Century Lute Manuscript: La Rhétorique des Dieux", ''Imago Musicae: International Yearbook of Musical Iconography''. * (1992) "Fairy-Tale Literature and Die Zauberflöte,” ''Acta Musicologica'' 64: 30–49. * (1994) ''Dance Music from the Ballets de cour 1575–1651. Historical Commentary, Source Study, and Transcriptions from the Philidor Manuscripts''. Stuyvesant, New York; Pendragon Press. * (1996) "The Sources of Dance Music for the Ballets de cour before Lully", ''{{ill|Revue de musicologie|fr}}'' 82: 314–31. * (1997) "Mozart and the [[Theater auf der Wieden]]: New attributions and perspectives", ''Cambridge Opera Journal'' 9: 195–232. * (1999) "On the Context of Mozart's Variations on the Aria, 'Ein Weib ist das herrlichste Ding auf der Welt', K.613", ''Mozart-Jahrbuch 1999'': 71–80. * (2000) "Eighteenth-century Performing Materials from the Archive of the Theater an der Wien and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte,” ''[[The Musical Quarterly]]'' 84: 287–322. * (2001) "Der Stein der Weisen, Mozart, and collaborative Singspiels at [[Emanuel Schikaneder]]'s Theater auf der Wieden", ''Mozart-Jahrbuch 2000'': 91–126. * (2001) "Die Hauskomponisten am Theater auf der Wieden zur Zeit Mozarts (1798–1791)", ''Acta Mozartiana'' 48 1/4: 75–81. * (2002) "Newly-Identified Engravings of Scenes from Emanuel Schickaneder's Theater auf der Wieden, 1789–1790, in the ''Allmanach für Theaterfreunde''", ''Maske und Kothurn'' 48: 351–376. * (2003) "Mozart's German Operas" (chapter 12), in ''[[Cambridge Companions to Music|The Cambridge Companion to Mozart]]'', ed. [[Simon Keefe]]. Cambridge: 156–167. * (2003) "Così fan tutte, La scuola degli amanti and L'ecole des amans", ''Hudební veda'' 38/3–4 ([[Festschrift]] [[Tomislav Volek]]): 313–320. * (2004) "A Newly-Discovered Manuscript of Mozart's ''[[Die Zauberflöte]]'' from the Copy Shop of Emanuel Schikaneder's Theater auf der Wieden", ''Studia Musicologica'' 45: 269–279. * (2004) "''Die Zauberflöte'', Masonic Opera, and Other Fairy Tales", ''[[Acta Musicologica]]'' 76/2:193–219, debunking many alleged masonic allusions. * (2004) "The Don Juan Tradition, Eighteenth-Century Supernatural Theatre and Vincenzo Righini's ''Il convitato di pietra''", ''Hudební veda'' 41/3–4: 295–302. * (2005) "Three Posthumous Reports Concerning Mozart in his Late Viennese Years", ''Eighteenth-Century Music'' 2:125–129. * (2007) with H. Worthen, "Ideology in Movement and a Movement in Ideology: The Deutsche Tanzfestspiele 1934 (9–16 December, Berlin)", ''[[Theatre Journal]]'' 59/2: 215–239. * (2008) ''Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in the Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater'' (University of Chicago Press) * (2012) ''Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire 1788–1807'' (Yuval Music Series 9), Jerusalem: The Jewish Music Research Centre. * (2012) "Placidus Partsch, die Liedersammlung für Kinder und Kinderfreunde und die letzten drei Lieder Mozarts", ''Acta Mozartiana'' 59/1: 5–24. * (2015) "Richard Strauss, ''Idomeneo'' and the Musical Mischling in the Third Reich", ''Richard Strauss-Jahrbuch 2014.'' Tutzing: Hans Schneider 2015: 67–84. * (2015) "Emanuel Schikaneder as Theater Composer, or Who Wrote Papageno's Melodies in ''Die Zauberflöte''?" ''Divadelní revue'' 26/2: 160–167. * (2016) "Mozart's Bawdy Canons, Vulgarity, and Debauchery at the Wiednertheater", ''Eighteenth-Century Music'' 13/2:238–308. * (2017) "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" (annotated bibliography), in ''Oxford Bibliographies in Music,'' ed. Bruce Gustafson. New York: Online only. *''Concepción Gómez de Jacoby: Tárrega’s Enigmatic Patron and Recuerdos de la Alhambra'' by David J. Buch (http://michaelorenz.blogspot.com/2020/11/concepcion-gomez-de-jacoby-tarregas.html) ==Editions== * (1990) ''Denis Gaultier, "La Rhétorique des dieux"'' (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era 62). Madison: A-R Editions, Inc. {{ISBN|0-89579-238-9}}. * (2002) with Manuela Jahrmärker (ed.) ''Schikaneders heroisch-komische Oper ''Der Stein der Weisen'' – Modell für Mozarts ''Zauberflöte''. Kritische Ausgabe des Textbuches'', (Hainholz Musikwissenschaft 5), Göttingen. {{ISBN|3932622464}}. * (2007) ''Der Stein der Weisen'' (full score), (Recent Researches in the Music of the Classic Era 76) Middleton. Wisconsin: A-R Editions. {{ISBN|0895796163}}. * (2010) ''Der wohltätige Derwisch oder Die Schellenkappe (Vienna, 1791). (full score and piano-vocal score; RRMCE 81).'' Middleton, Wis.: A-R Ed. {{ISBN|0-89579-668-6}}. * (2014) Franz Xaver Süßmayr, ''Der Spiegel von Arkadien (Vienna, 1794). (full score and piano-vocal score; RRMCE 93–94).'' Middleton, Wis.: A-R Ed. {{ISBN|0-89579-777-1}}. * (2014) Mozart, Wanhal, Henneberg, Müller, et al., ''Liedersammlung für Kinder und Kinderfreunde (Vienna 1791).'' RRMCE 95. Middleton, Wis., A-R Ed. {{ISBN|978-0-89579-791-9}}. * (2015) Two operas from the Series ''Die zween Anton.'' Part 1: ''Der dumme Gärtner aus dem Gebürge oder Die zween Anton (Vienna 1789).'' RRMCE 96. Middleton, Wis., A-R Ed. {{ISBN|978-0-89579-811-4}}. * (2016) Two operas from the Series ''Die zween Anton.'' Part 2: ''Die verdeckten Sachen (Vienna 1789).'' RRMCE 98. Middleton, Wisconsin, A-R Ed. {{ISBN|978-0-89579-824-4}}. *''Concepción Gómez de Jacoby: Tárrega’s Enigmatic Patron and Recuerdos de la Alhambra'' (http://michaelorenz.blogspot.com/2020/11/concepcion-gomez-de-jacoby-tarregas.html) ==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="WorldCat">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n89-603002|publisher = WorldCat|accessdate=September 15, 2012|title=David J. Buch}}</ref> <ref name="Chicago Tribune">{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-01-03-9901030352-story.html|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=January 12, 2020|title=David Buch's Big Score|author=Don Hamilton|date=January 3, 1999}}</ref> }} ==External links== *{{cite web|url=http://otsummerfest.org/mozartbios|publisher=otsummerfest|accessdate=September 14, 2012|title=David J. Buch|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822012512/http://otsummerfest.org/mozartbios|archive-date=August 22, 2012|url-status=dead}} *[[Edward Rothstein]]: [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/12/arts/not-even-mostly-mozart-but-clearly-some.html?sec=&spon=&scp=2&sq=mozart+dervish&st=cse&pagewanted=all "Not Even Mostly Mozart, but Clearly Some"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 12, 1997 {{Portal bar|Biography|Classical music}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Buch, David J.}} [[Category:American musicologists]] [[Category:University of Chicago faculty]] [[Category:Bienen School of Music alumni]] [[Category:Mozart scholars]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1950 births]]'