Stephen Hinton (born 1955, London, England) is a British-American musicologist at Stanford University.
A leading authority on the composer Kurt Weill,[1] he has published widely on many aspects of modern German music history, with contributions to publications such as Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie [de], The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and Funkkolleg [de] Musikgeschichte.
[2][3][4] The reviewer for the Journal of the American Musicological Society described the book as "a landmark in the literature on twentieth-century musical theater.
"[5] Hinton graduated from the University of Birmingham (UK) with a BA in Music and German in 1978, and with a PhD in Musicology in 1984.
[7] Before moving to Stanford, he taught at Yale University and, before that, at the Technische Universität Berlin.