Dana Gooley is a musicologist and a Professor of Music at Brown. He has published widely on the history of music in nineteenth-century Europe, with a special focus on performers and performance culture. His work has appeared in Journal of the American Musicological Society, Musical Quarterly, Journal of Musicology, 19th Century Music, Keyboard Perspectives, Performance Research, and several edited collections. Other interests include the history of music criticism, virtuosity, musical mediation, improvisation, cosmopolitanism, jazz, and the theatre of Stephen Sondheim. He is the author of two books: The Virtuoso Liszt(Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music (Oxford University Press, 2018). He was chosen as scholar-in-residence for the Bard Music Festival and co-edited the associated book Franz Liszt and His World (Princeton University Press, 2006).