MA, University of Chicago, 1980 J. Peter Burkholder (born June 17, 1954) is an American musicologist and author.
He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Five books and numerous articles on Charles Ives revised the earlier view of the composer as American iconoclast, showing his knowledge of European traditions and his gradual evolution from shared conventions to radical modernism.
His publications have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, German, Italian, and Arabic and are known worldwide.
In 2010, he was named an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society, the youngest person ever granted this award for lifetime achievement.