Cliff Eisen

{{Short description|Canadian musicologist (born 1952)}}

Cliff Eisen (born 21 January 1952 in Toronto) is a Canadian musicologist and Mozart expert. He was based in the Department of Music at King's College London. He studied at the University of Toronto and at Cornell University, and has taught at the University of Western Ontario and New York University.

His research focuses on the Classical period, particularly Mozart and performance practice. He has written extensively on the issues of authenticity surrounding the works of Leopold Mozart and his son, Wolfgang. Other publications of his deal with Mozart's chamber music, life in Salzburg,{{Citation |last=Eisen |first=Cliff |title=Mozart and Salzburg |date=2003 |work=The Cambridge Companion to Mozart |pages=5–21 |editor-last=Keefe |editor-first=Simon P. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-mozart/mozart-and-salzburg/D1B33398746F87CE51C35EA2DC6E8015 |access-date=2024-06-16 |series=Cambridge Companions to Music |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-00192-2}} biography and his life in contemporary documentation,{{Cite web |title=BBC Four - The Joy of Mozart, Contributors - Prof. Cliff Eisen |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02glzgl/p02gly4t |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}} as well as Cole Porter.{{Cite web |title=The Letters of Cole Porter |url=https://yalebooks.co.uk/9780300219272/the-letters-of-cole-porter |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=Yale University Press London |language=en-GB}}

In 1997, Eisen was terminated by New York University after a student filed a lawsuit against the university alleging sexual harassment. The university had previously reprimanded him after complaints from four other students.{{cite news |title=NYU Hit Over Transsexual's Harass Suit |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/1997/10/10/nyu-hit-over-transsexuals-harass-suit/ |access-date=6 November 2023 |work=New York Daily News |date=10 October 1997}}{{cite journal |last1=Kraschel |first1=Katherine |title=Trans-cending Space in Women's Only Spaces: Title IX Cannot Be the Basis for Exclusion |journal=Harvard Journal of Law & Gender |volume=35 |page=468-469 |url=https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jlg/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2012/01/Kraschel.pdf}}{{cite news |title=Transsexual Wins Sex-Harassment Suit |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/transsexual-wins-sex-harassment-suit/article_8f289206-0269-5d4b-91fa-d1f2d16f01aa.html |access-date=6 November 2023 |work=Buffalo News |date=2 April 1998 |language=en}}