Esteban Buch

Esteban Buch (Buenos Aires, 1963) is professor of music history at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist of the relationships between music and politics in the twentieth century, he is the author of Trauermarsch. L’Orchestre de Paris dans l’Argentine de la dictature (Paris, Editions du Seuil, 2016), O juremos con gloria morir. Una historia del Himno Nacional Argentino (Buenos Aires, Eterna Cadencia, 2013), L’Affaire Bomarzo. Opéra, perversion et dictature (Paris, Editions de l’EHESS, 2011), Le cas Schönberg. Naissance de l’avant-garde musicale (Paris, Gallimard, 2006), and Beethoven’s Ninth. A Political History (Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2003), among other books. He has also written, together with Ezequiel Adamovsky, La Marchita, el escudo y el bombo. Una historia cultural de los emblemas del peronismo, de Perón a Cristina Kirchner (Buenos Aires, Planeta, 2016). His recent publications include articles in journals such as Music & Letters, Annales HSS, Musical Quarterly, and Critique, among others. He is the coeditor of Composing for the State: Music in Twentieth Century Dictatorships (Routledge/Ashgate, 2016), Du politique en analyse musicale(Vrin, 2013) and Tangos cultos. Kagel, JJ Castro, Mastropiero y otros cruces musicales. (Gourmet Musical, 2012), and other collective works. He has also written opera librettos, including Mario Lorenzo's Richter (2003) and Sebastian Rivas’s Aliados. Un opéra du temps réel (2013).