Oliver Neighbour
Oliver Wray Neighbour, FBA (1 April 1923 – 20 January 2015) was a British musicologist and bibliographer.[1][2] Along with Thurston Dart, Nigel Fortune and Stanley Sadie he was one of Britain's leading musicologists of the post-World War II generation.[3]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]Born in Merstham, Surrey, on 1 April 1923, Neighbour studied at Birkbeck College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1950 on modern languages.[4] He later became music librarian of the British Museum from 1976 to 1985, succeeding Alexander Hyatt King.[4]
His main fields of research were 19th-century English music, as well as composers William Byrd and Arnold Schoenberg.[4]
Selected writings
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References
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