Allan Badley is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Auckland. He is the co-founder of the music publishing house Artaria Editions, which specializes in works by contemporaries of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Among his numerous published editions are major works by Hofmann, Wanhal, Pleyel, Hummel and Ries, many of which have been recorded on the Naxos label.