Professor of Music, Cambridge University
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The Professorship of Music was founded in 1684, one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge
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The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
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List of Professors of Music
- 1684 Nicholas StagginsNicholas StagginsNicholas Staggins was an English composer.Staggins first studied music under his father. He was made Master of the King's Music by Charles II in 1674. In 1682, he was granted a musical doctorate by Cambridge University, and from 1684 until his death was Professor of Music at Cambridge...
- 1705 Thomas Tudway
- 1730 Maurice GreeneMaurice Greene (composer)Maurice Greene was an English composer and organist.- Biography :Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Greene became a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral under Jeremiah Clarke and Charles King...
- 1755 John Randall
- 1799 Charles HagueCharles HagueCharles Hague , was a professor of music at Cambridge University.Haguewas born in 1769 at Tadcaster, Yorkshire, and was taught music and the violin by an elder brother. In 1779 he removed with his brother to Cambridge, where he studied the violin under Manini and thorough-bass and composition under...
- 1821 John Clarke WhitfieldJohn Clarke WhitfieldJohn Clarke Whitfield , English organist and composer, was born at Gloucester, and educated at Oxford under Dr Philip Hayes....
- 1836 Thomas Attwood WalmisleyThomas Attwood WalmisleyThomas Attwood Walmisley was an English composer and organist.-Early life:He was born in London, the son of Thomas Forbes Gerrard Walmisley , a well-known organist and composer of church music and glees...
- 1856 William Sterndale BennettWilliam Sterndale BennettSir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer. He ranks as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic school-Biography:...
- 1875 George Alexander MacfarrenGeorge Alexander MacfarrenSir George Alexander Macfarren was an English composer.-Life:George Alexander Macfarren was born in London on 2 March 1813 to George Macfarren, a dancing-master, dramatic author, and journalist, and Elizabeth Macfarren, née Jackson. At the age of seven, Macfarren was sent to Dr...
- 1887 Charles Villiers StanfordCharles Villiers StanfordSir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...
- 1924 Charles WoodCharles Wood (composer)Charles Wood was an Irish composer and teacher.Born in Armagh, Ireland, he was the fifth child and third son of Charles Wood Sr. and Jemima Wood. His father was a tenor in the choir of the nearby St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh , and later worked as the Diocesan Registrar of the church...
- 1926–1941 Edward Joseph DentEdward Joseph DentEdward Joseph Dent, generally known by his initials as E. J. Dent was a British writer on music....
- 1946 Patrick Arthur Sheldon HadleyPatrick HadleyPatrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley was a British composer.-Biography:Patrick Sheldon Hadley was born on 5 March 1899 in Cambridge. His father, William Sheldon Hadley, was at that time a fellow of Pembroke College...
- 1962 Robert Thurston DartThurston DartRobert Thurston Dart , was a British musicologist, conductor and keyboard player. From 1964 he was Professor of Music at King's College London....
- 1965 Robin OrrRobin OrrRobert Kelmsley Orr CBE was a Scottish composer.Born in Brechin, he studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Following studies with Alfredo Casella and Nadia Boulanger he returned to Cambridge in 1938 as Organist of St John's College. During his war...
- 1976 Alexander GoehrAlexander GoehrAlexander Goehr is an English composer and academic.Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers. In 1955–56 he joined Oliver Messiaen's...
- 1999 Roger ParkerRoger ParkerRoger Parker is an English musicologist, and is currently Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London....
- 2009 Nicholas CookNicholas CookNicholas Cook is a British musicologist and writer born in Athens, Greece. In 2009 he became the 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Darwin College...