Professional Biography
Daniel Boomhower provides leadership for all aspects of the library’s operations in support of the fellowship program and scholarship in the three fields of study. The Director of the Research Library since 2015, Boomhower oversees the work of the library in maintaining a comprehensive record of scholarship in Byzantine and Pre-Columbian Studies and the history and theory of formal gardens and designed landscapes, as well as a distinguished collection of early printed books and manuscripts relating to all three fields of study. The library also holds distinctive photographic and archaeological documentation of Byzantine art and architecture alongside exhaustive documentation of ceramic iconography of the Moche, Nasca, and Maya civilizations. With Boomhower’s leadership, the library staff strive to maintain an optimal research environment for scholars and to make Dumbarton Oaks’ unique library resources available to the public through a strategic digitization program.
Boomhower holds an MS in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a PhD in musicology from Case Western Reserve University. He has published on the history of libraries and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms and has served on the Board of Directors of the Music Library Association and the Coordinating Committee of the Advisory Council of Rèpetoire Internationale des Sources Musicales. Prior to his appointment at Dumbarton Oaks, Daniel held positions at the Library of Congress and in the libraries at Kent State University and Princeton University.
Publications
- Review of Johann Sebastian Bach: Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV), 3., erweiterte Ausgabe, bearbeitet von Christine Blanken, Christoph Wolff und Peter Wollny. Notes 79 (June 2023), 602-606.
- Boomhower, Daniel F. “Musical Museums of Imaginary Works: Early Collectors of J. S. Bach’s Music and the Formation of Work-Concepts.” Ad Parnassum 18, no. 35 (Apr./Oct. 2020): 1-38.
- Review of Challenging the Modern: Conservative Revolution in German Music, 1918-33 by Nicholas Attfi eld, Notes 76 (March 2020): 436-438.
- Review of Anti-Music: Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought Between the Wars by Mark Christian Thompson. Notes 76 (March 2020): 438-440.
- Brahms, Johannes. Klavierquintett in f, Op. 34. Edited by Daniel F. Boomhower. Bärenreiter Urtext, BA 10915. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2018.
- Boomhower, Daniel F. “Zur handschriftliche Überlieferung der h-Moll-Messe in Berlin und Wien in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts.” Bach-Jahrbuch 103 (2017): 11-31.
- A Basic Music Library, 4th ed. Edited by Daniel F. Boomhower. Chicago: American Library Association.
- Volume 1: Popular Music, edited by Edward Komara. February, 2017.
- Volume 2: World Music, edited by Liza Vick. January, 2018.
- Volume 3: Classical Music, edited by Amanda Maple, 2021.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian. Meine Seel' erhebt den Herren, BWV 10: Faksimile nach dem Autograph der Library of Congress, Washington. Edited and introduction by Daniel F. Boomhower, Meisterwerke der Musik im Faksimile, 41. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2016.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian. Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9: Faksimile nach dem Autograph der Library of Congress, Washington. Edited and introduction by Daniel F. Boomhower, Meisterwerke der Musik im Faksimile, 40. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2016.
- Boomhower, Daniel F. “C. P. E. Bach Sources at the Library of Congress.” Notes 70 (June 2014): 597-660.
- Review of Johann Sebastian Bach Messe h-moll, ed. by Joshua Rifkin and Messe h-moll (facsimile), ed. by Christoph Wolff. Notes 65 (December 2008): 385-389. Recipient of the Music Library Association’s Eva Judd O’Meara Award, 2010.
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