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
editBorn 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
edit- Neighbour, Oliver; Jeans, Susi (2001). "Bull [Boul, Bul, Bol], John". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.04294. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription, Wikilibrary access, or UK public library membership required)
- —— (August 2008). "Ralph, Adeline, and Ursula Vaughan Williams: Some Facts and Speculation". Music & Letters. 89 (3): 337–345. doi:10.1093/ml/gcn042. JSTOR 30162996. (subscription required)
- ——; Kemp, Ian; Goehr, Alexander; Miller, Karl; Wood, Hugh; Matthews, David; Maconie, Robin; Payne, Anthony (April 2010). "David Drew: Tributes & Memories". Tempo. 64 (252): 14–20. JSTOR 40794440.
References
edit- ↑ "Oliver Neighbour: Versatile librarian and scholar who played a vital role in raising musicological standards in postwar Britain - People - News". Independent.co.uk. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ↑ "Oliver Neighbour, musicologist - obituary". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ↑ Whittall, Arnold (22 April 2009). "Nigel Fortune: Musicologist behind a rise in academic standards in Britain". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- 1 2 3 Williamson, Rosemary (2019) [2001]. "Neighbour, O(liver) W(ray)". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.19700. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription, Wikilibrary access, or UK public library membership required)
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