Robert Judd (musicologist)

Robert Floyd Judd (February 12, 1956 – August 24, 2019) was an American musicologist who served as the executive director of the American Musicological Society from September 1996 until his death[1] on August 24, 2019.

Judd was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where he began performing music as a child.

Judd's academic research focused on Renaissance-era keyboard music.

[3] He became a tenured professor at the California State University, Fresno.

In 1996, he became the executive director of the American Musicological Society at New York University.