Barbara Harbach is a versatile figure, active as a composer, organist, harpsichordist, and educator. She is also noted as an editor, founding the journal Women of Note and publishing works by neglected composers.
Harbach was born in Pennsylvania on February 14, 1946. She earned a B.A. from Penn State University, majoring in music and studying organ and harpsichord. She went on for a master's degree from Yale and a doctorate in composition from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She also traveled to the Musikhochschule Frankfurt for studies on the organ with H...