Geoffrey Block

Geoffrey Block
Born (1948-05-07) May 7, 1948
EducationPhD, Harvard University, 1979

AM, Harvard University, 1973

AB, University of California at Los Angeles, 1970
OccupationMusicologist

Geoffrey Block (born May 7, 1948) is an American musicologist and author. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music History and Humanities at the University of Puget Sound. He has written numerous books, essays, and journal articles on American musical theater and musical film, and books on Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles Ives, Richard Rodgers, and Franz Schubert. He was the General Editor of Yale Broadway Masters and is the Series Editor of Oxford’s Broadway Legacies, two series of scholarly books accessible to general audiences.