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Jerome Joseph Kohl (November 27, 1946 – August 4, 2020) was an American Musicology, academic journal editor, and recorder teacher. A music theorist at the University of Washington, he became recognized internationally as an authority on the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Kohl concluded his studies in 1981 with his PhD thesis, "Serial and Non-Serial Techniques in the Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1962–1968". He was managing editor of the journal Perspectives of New Music from 1985 to 1999. Between 2005 and 2018, he was Secretary of the Department of Classics at the University of Washington. In 2018, Kohl became Administrative Assistant at the university's Department of Political Science.
His research focus was contemporary classical music. He became recognized as a world expert on the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, taking part in international conferences on his music. He collaborated with Stockhausen, traveling to Europe annually, and co-authored books with him. Kohl was also a contributor to Wikipedia, with more than 100,000 edits, creating many articles, especially about Stockhausen's work.
Kohl died in Seattle from a sudden heart attack, on August 4, 2020, at the age of 73. His death was commemorated by a memorial tribute in Perspectives of New Music, which called his 2017 book on Stockhausen's Zeitmaße "an astounding masterpiece".
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