Se dedicó a ediciones críticas de óperas de Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti y Giuseppe Verdi.^[4]​ Se graduó en Princeton University, obteniendo una beca Fulbright para estudiar en París.^[5]​

• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation "Distinguished Achievement Award" - 2004.
• 1998, "Cavaliere di Gran Croce".
• Presidente de la American Musicological Society for Textual Scholarship
• Dean of the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
• 2008 Miembro de la Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

• 1971: The Operas of Rossini: Problems of Textual Criticism in Nineteenth-Century Opera (thesis/dissertation). OCLC 251748514 y 1061802 .
• 1971: Treatise on Harmony by Jean Philippe Rameau, Philip Gossett. New York: Dover. ISBN 978-0-486-22461-9.
• 1978: Early romantic Opera: Bellini, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Donizetti, and Grand Opera in Paris, OCLC 225747929.
• 1983: "Gioachino Rossini" in The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini. New York: W. W. Norton, 1983. ISBN 978-0-393-30361-2.
• 1983: "I Puritani: Melodramma Serio in Three Acts, First Performance: Paris, Theatre-Italien, January 24, 1835 (Garland Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8240-2905-0.
• 1985: Anna Bolena and the Artistic Maturity of Gaetano Donizetti (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure) by Philip Gossett, 1985) Oxford University Press, 1985 ISBN 978-0-19-313205-4.
• 2006: Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera. Chicago: University of Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-30482-3.
• 2014: Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work by Cuthbert Girdlestone, with an introduction by Philip Gossett. Mineola, New York: Dover. ISBN 9780486492230.

• The works of Gioachino Rossini, Series I: Operas

• • "L'occasione fa il ladro" by Giochino Rossini, edited by Giovanni Carli Ballola, Patricia Brauner, and Philip Gossett, 1994. OCLC 496006140
  • "La gazzetta" de Gioachino Rossini, Vol. 18, (Eds.) Philip Gossett and Fabrizio Scipioni, Pesaro, Fondazione Rossini, 2002. ISBN 978-0-226-72864-3
  • "Semiramide" de Gioachino Rossini: Melodramma tragico in Two Acts, Libretto by Gaetano Rossi, Vol. 34, (Eds.) Philip Gossett, and Alberto Zedda Pesaro, Fondazione Rossini, 2001.
  • "Ermione" de Giochino Rossini, edited by Patricia B. Brauner and Philip Gossett, 2006. ISBN 9788875927806.
  • "Tancredi" de Gioachino Rossini: Melodramma eroico in Two Acts by Gaetano Rossi. Vol. 10, (Ed.) Philip Gossett, 2010
  • "Maometto II", Dramma per musica .
  • "Il barbiere di Siviglia" de Gioachino Rossini^[6]​
• The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, Series I: Operas.
  • "Ernani" de Giuseppe Verdi: Dramma Lirico in Four Acts By Francesco Maria Piave, (Eds.) Claudio Gallico and (Trans.) Philip Gossett. University Of Chicago Press, 1985 ISBN 978-0-226-85307-9
  • "La forza del destino" de Giuseppe Verdi

• Gossett, Philip, Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera Chicago: University of Chicago, 2006 ISBN 978-0-226-30482-3

• Perfil de Gossett en el sitio de la Universidad de Chicago's website (en inglés)
• Críticas de libros de Philip Gossett en The New York Review of Books (en inglés)
• Entrevista con Philip Gossett de Bruce Duffie, 22 de junio de 1988 (en inglés)