Michael Lorenz (born 18 July 1958) is an Austrian musicologist, noted as a Mozart scholar and for his archival work combining music history and genealogical research.
Lorenz has received grants from the Jubilee Foundation of Oesterreichische Nationalbank, the Austrian Science Fund and the Music & Letters Trust.
doing research based on a grant from the Jubilee Foundation of city of Vienna.
In 2014 and 2016 he was employed as a lecturer at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna.
Lorenz has written about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert.