Simon Patrick Keefe (born December 24, 1968) is an English musicologist, author, and Mozart expert.
After being awarded his PhD at Columbia in 1997,[2] he was appointed to a lectureship at Christ Church, Oxford, and then lectured at Queen's University Belfast in 1999.
[1] Keefe specialises in Mozart, and is the only British member of the Salzburg-based Akademie für Mozart-Forschung of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, as of 2005.
Keefe has also written on other composers such as Haydn and Beethoven, and has also studied Wagner, the concerto, and 20th-century French popular song.
[1] Keefe has appeared in BBC Two's film, Mozart in Prague: Rolando Villázon on Don Giovanni (2014), for which he was principal musicological consultant.