Peter Revers (born 1954) is a German-Austrian musicologist and university lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
Born in Würzburg,[1] [2] Revers is the son of the psychologist . He studied musicology, psychology, philosophy and music composition at the Paris-Lodron-University and at the Mozarteum Salzburg and University of Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1980 and also received his artistic diploma in 1981. From 1981 to 1996 he was assistant, lecturer and guest professor at the Vienna and Graz Universities of Music, but also worked at the universities of Salzburg and Hamburg. In 1988/1989 he was granted a research fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of the University of Hamburg, where he also habilitated in 1993. Revers has been married to the pianist and university professor Lucy Revers-Chin since 1982.
Since 1996 Revers has been full professor for music history at the Kunstuniversität Graz. From 2001 to 2009 he was president of the Austrian Society for Musicology. Revers' research interests include Gustav Mahler, Jean Sibelius, Mozart, the music of the 18th to 21st centuries, but also the reception of East Asia in the history of western music.