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Name
  
Robert Donington


Died
  
January 20, 1990, Firle, United Kingdom

Books
  
The interpretation of early m, Baroque Music - Style and, Opera and its Symbols, Wagner's Ring and its symbols, The Opera

Robert Donington (4 May 1907 – 20 January 1990) was a British musicologist and instrumentalist influential in the early music movement and in Wagner studies.

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He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and studied at the University of Oxford. His expert knowledge of early instruments and the interpretation of pre-classical music owed much to a period of study with Arnold Dolmetsch at Haslemere, Surrey.

He was born in Leeds, and died in Firle, Sussex at the age of 82.

Books

  • The Instruments of Music (1949).
  • Tempo and Rhythm in Bach's Organ Music (1960).
  • The Interpretation of Early Music (1963).
  • Wagner's Ring and its Symbols (1963).
  • String playing in baroque music, with recorded illustrations by Yehudi Menuhin, George Malcolm, (1977).
  • A performer's guide to baroque music (1978).
  • The Rise of Opera (1981).
  • Baroque Music: Style and Performance, a Handbook (1982).

    • Articles

  • The Psychology of Tristan, Times Literary Supplement, 18 June 1971, pp 699–700

    • References

    Robert Donington Wikipedia
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