Leonardo J. Waisman

Leonardo J. Waisman (ljwaisman@yahoo.com), retired as a research fellow at Argentine Council for Scientific Research (CONICET), studied composition and musicology at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) and the University of Chicago. He has published on the Italian madrigal, American colonial music, performance practice, popular music of Argentina, the social significance of musical styles and the operas of Vicente Martín y Soler. He is also a harpsichordist and conductor specializing in Baroque music, with concerts in America, Europe, and the Far East. During 2015/16 he was the Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies at Cambridge University. His most recent publications are Music in Colonial Hispanic America, and a three-volume set of villancicos purporting to represent displaced Africans.