Richard G. King

Years of Service: 1996–2020
Fields of Expertise: Musicology, eighteenth-century music and opera, historical performance, popular music

Bio: Richard G. King (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1992) is a specialist on eighteenth-century music and popular music. Dr. King’s research on the life and works of G. F. Handel, eighteenth-century opera, music at the Dutch court of Anne and Willem IV, and historical performance has been published in books and many of the leading journals in musicology, the "Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia" and the second editions of the "New Grove" and "MGG." He also has edited Handel’s opera Alessandro for the "Hallische Händel-Ausgabe," as well as collections of essays on Handel, and popular music. Before concentrating on musicology, he studied viola da gamba and performance practice at Stanford and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and played popular music and jazz professionally for twenty-five years. Building upon that experience, Dr. King created and taught for twenty years the History of Pop Music, one of the most popular courses at Maryland.