Thomas Bauman (born March 10, 1948) is an American musicologist and Professor of Musicology at Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University.
He is an expert on German opera, film music, Mozart, and African American theatrical history.
[1] He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977 with a dissertation on the Seyler Theatre Company.
He is particularly known for his monograph North German Opera in the Age of Goethe (Cambridge University Press, 1985).
His monograph The Pekin: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black-Owner Theater (University of Illinois Press, 2014) was considered "an important contribution to the field" by Choice.