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Encyclopedia > Gresham Professor of Music

The Professor of Music at Gresham College is appointed by the City of London Corporation. Gresham College is an unusual institution of higher learning in London which enrolls no students and grants no degrees. ... Arms of the City of London as shown on Blackfriars station. ...


(Years given as, say,1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates.) In Britain and countries of the British Empire, Old Style or O.S. after a date means that the date is in the Julian calendar, in use in those countries until 1752; New Style or N.S. means that the date is in the Gregorian calendar, adopted on 14 September...

1 John Bull March 1596 / 7
2 Thomas Clayton 20 Dec 1607
3 John Taverner 17 Nov 1610
4 Richard Knight 28 August 1638
5 Sir William Petty FRS 7 Feb 1650 / 1
6 Thomas Baynes 8 March 1660 / 1
7 William Perry 9 August 1681
8 John Newey 9 Oct 1696
9 Robert Shippen 4 Dec 1705
10 Edward Shippen 7 Oct 1710
11 John Gordon 16 Jan 1723 / 4
12 Thomas Brome 12 March 1739 / 40
13 Charles Gardner 6 Dec 1745
14 T Griffin 11 Jan 1763
15 Theodore Aylward 5 June 1771
16 Jno S Stevens 17 March 1801
17 Edward Taylor 24 Oct 1837
18 Henry Wyld 10 July 1863
19 Frederick Bridge 30 April 1890
20 Henry Walford Davies 11 July 1924
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
21 Peter Latham 29 May 1946
22 Anthony Hopkins (sp?) 1963
23 Brian Trowell 1971
24 Iannis Xenakis 1975
25 – vacant – 1978-79
26 A Percival 1980
27 – vacant – 1983
28 John Dankworth 1984
29 Peter Renshaw 1986
30 David Owen Norris 1 Sept 1993
31 Stephen Pratt/ Joanna MacGregor 1 Sept 1997
32 Piers Hellawell 1 Sept 2000
33 Adrian Thomas 1 Sept 2003

John Bull (1562 or 1563–March 12, 1628) was an English composer, musician, and organ builder. ... William Petty Sir William Petty (May 27, 1623-December 16, 1687) was a scientist and philosopher. ... Sir Henry Walford Davies (September 6, 1869 - March 11, 1941) was a British composer, who held the title Master of the Kings Music from 1934 until 1941. ... Iannis Xenakis Iannis Xenakis (Ιάννης Ξενάκης) (May 29, 1922 Brăila – February 4, 2001 Paris) was a Greek composer and architect who spent much of his life in Paris. ... Joanna MacGregor, a popular classical pianist, was born July 16, 1959 in England. ...

See also

The Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College is appointed by the City of London Corporation. ...

References

  • Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors

Further reading

  • Ward, J [1740] (1967). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College, New York & London: Johnson Reprint Corporation.


 

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