American composer and conductor
David Mayer Epstein (October 3, 1930 – January 15, 2002) was an American composer, conductor, and music scientist who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was the author of "Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance", a work on the neurological basis for various elements of music theory, and co-editor of "Beauty and the Brain: Biological Aspects of Aesthetics."