Manfred Fritz Bukofzer (27 March 1910 – 7 December 1955) was a German-born American musicologist.
He taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1941 until his premature death from multiple myeloma.
[1] Bukofzer is best known as a historian of early music, particularly of the Baroque era.
His book Music in the Baroque Era is still one of the standard reference works on the topic, although some modern historians assert that it has a Germanic bias – for example, in minimizing the importance of opera (Italian by origin) during the development of musical style in the 17th century.
Furthermore, during his time at Berkeley, Bukofzer conducted several successful operas, including The Beggar's Opera, Dido and Aeneas, and Village Barber.