Piero Weiss (January 26, 1928 – October 2, 2011) was an Italian-American pianist and musicologist.
Born in Trieste, his mother was a symphony violinist and the niece of novelist Italo Svevo.
In 1938, at the age of 10, he fled Fascist Italy with his family, ending up in New York City in 1940.
[1] Although he had a substantial career as a pianist, Weiss is chiefly remembered for his work as a scholar and college professor.
He then joined the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, where he founded the music history department in the Fall of 1985.