Douglas Johnson has degrees from Hamilton College (BA) and the University of California-Berkeley (MA and PhD). He works on topics in 18th- and 19th- century music and has published widely on Beethoven, with special concentration on the composer’s sketchbooks. He co-authored The Beethoven Sketchbooks with Alan Tyson and Robert Winter, which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award for the best book in musicology, presented by the American Musicological Society in 1986.