Joseph Horowitz

Joseph Horowitz (born 1948 in New York City) is an American cultural historian who writes mainly about the institutional history of classical music in the United States.

He has released two more books,The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York (his first novel) and The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and the Cultural Cold War.

As a composer, Horowitz co-created (with music historian Michael Beckerman) a piece called Hiawatha Melodrama for narrator and orchestra, incorporating text by Longfellow.

[8] As a concert producer, Horowitz was an artistic advisor to the Schubertiade at New York's 92nd Street Y, for which he created all-day Schubert symposium incorporating film, Lieder, and chamber music (1981–1994).

According to Alex Ross in The New Yorker (November 1997), "When Joseph Horowitz became executive director, the Brooklyn Philharmonic more or less went off the grid of American orchestral culture.

"[9] Beginning in 1999, Horowitz has served as a freelance artistic consultant; he has conceived more than five dozen thematic interdisciplinary music festivals for a variety of orchestras and performing arts institutions.

From 1998 to 2011, he was a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement; he has also written for a variety of scholarly publications, including The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.