H. Wiley Hitchcock

Hugh Wiley Hitchcock ( born September 28, 1923 in Detroit, † December 5, 2007 in New York) was an American musicologist. He created the Hitchcock directory of the works of Marc- Antoine Charpentier.

Hitchcock received the bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire) and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He studied music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1961 he moved to New York to take a job at Hunter College. A decade later, he went to Brooklyn College. Hitchcock was the founding director of the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College, and among others, a specialist for Charles Ives. In 1993 he retired, but continued to hold lectures at Yale, Columbia and New York University.

In addition to his teaching, he was the editor and author of important studies of Baroque music.

Hitchcock was married twice. With his first wife Susan Tyler Hitchcock of Charlottesville, which is also known as Janet Cox - Rearick, he had two children. His second wife was Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock of Miami. He died of prostate cancer at the age of 84 years.

• Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction ( 1969, revised in 2000)
• 129 songs by Charles Ives ( 2004)