Brian Trowell
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{{Short description|English musicologist}}
Brian Lewis Trowell (21 February 1931 – 12 November 2015) was an English musicologist and the Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford. Prior to his post at Oxford, he was the King Edward Professor of Music at King's College London. In the mid-1980s, he served as president of the Royal Musical Association.
{{Infobox academic
| name = Brian Trowell
| birth_date = 21 February 1931 – 12 November 2015)
| birth_place = Wokingham
| occupation = Musicologist
| education = Professor
| alma_mater = University of Cambridge
| workplaces = University of Oxford
}}
Education
Brian Trowell was born in Wokingham in 1931.{{Cite book|last=Scott|first=David|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2001|volume=1|language=en|chapter=Trowell, Brian (Lewis)|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.28477}}{{Cite web|date=2015-11-13|title=Professor Brian Trowell, 1931–2015|url=https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/professor-brian-trowell-1931-2015/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411203411/https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/professor-brian-trowell-1931-2015/|archive-date=11 April 2019|access-date=2020-09-24|publisher=Oxford University Faculty of Music}} He received his BA from the University of Cambridge in 1953, and a doctorate there in 1960, under Thurston Dart.{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/ciconiltd/docs/wadham_gazette_2016|work=Wadham College Gazette 2016|title=Professor Brian Lewis Trowell 1931-2015. A man of many seasons|author=Reinhard Strohm|pages=122–127|date=2017-04-18}}
Career
Trowell taught at Birmingham University from 1957 to 1962, at King's College London in 1964–64, was Director of Opera at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1963–67, became the Gresham Professor of Music, and from 1967 to 1970 was the Head of Radio Opera at the BBC. He returned to King's College in 1970 and was the King Edward VII Professor of Music there from 1974 to 1988. When Denis Arnold, the Heather Professor of Music at Oxford (1974–1986) died in 1986, Trowell eventually succeeded him and took the Heather Professor chair at Oxford in 1988.
His scholarship focussed on Edward Elgar, among other composers.
Trowell served as president of the Royal Musical Association 1984 to 1989.{{Cite web|date=2015-11-12|title=Professor Brian Trowell, 1931-2015|url=http://www.rma.ac.uk/conferences/event.asp?id=867|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207164744/http://www.rma.ac.uk/conferences/event.asp?id=867|archive-date=2016-02-07|publisher=Royal Music Association}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite book|last=Trowell|first=Brian Lewis|title=Edward Elgar: Music and Literature|publisher=Scolar Press|year=1993|isbn=0-85967-937-3|editor-last=Monk|editor-first=Raymond|location=Aldershot, Hants, England|pages=182–326|chapter=Elgar's Use of Literature|oclc=29955265}}
- {{cite journal |last=Trowell |first=Brian |date=1959 |title=Faburden and Fauxbourdon |journal=Musica Disciplina |volume=13 |pages=43–78 |jstor=20531911 }}
References
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Category:People from Wokingham
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:Academics of the University of Birmingham
Category:Academics of King's College London
Category:Academics of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Category:Academics of Gresham College
Category:Heather Professors of Music
Category:English musicologists
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