John Williamson (musicologist)

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'''John Gordon Williamson''' (born 1949) is a Scottish musicologist and retired academic. After studying music and history at the [[University of Glasgow]], he completed his doctoral studies at [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. In 1974, he was appointed to a [[lectureship]] at the [[University of Liverpool]];<ref>''The New Hungarian Quarterly'', vol. 27 (1986), p. 240.</ref><ref>''The Writers Directory 2005'', vol. 2 (2004), p. 1831.</ref> he was subsequently a professor of music and head of the School of Music there. He specialises in Austro-German music between 1850 and 1950, and he has studied the works of [[Hans Pfitzner|Pfitzner]], [[Richard Strauss|Strauss]], [[Franz Liszt|Liszt]], [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]] and [[Hugo Wolf|Wolf]].<ref>"Professor John Williamson", ''School of Music, University of Liverpool'', as archived on [http://bit.ly/2QV75VL 13 August 2004].</ref><ref>"Staff", ''School of Music, University of Liverpool'', as archived on [http://bit.ly/2BIy3Wm 17 August 2004].</ref>

== Selected publications ==
* ''The Music of Hans Pfitzner'' (Oxford University Press, 1992).
* ''Strauss: 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'' (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
* (Editor) ''The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

== References ==


[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1949 births]]
[[Category:Scottish musicologists]]
[[Category:Academics of the University of Liverpool]]

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