John Deathridge

John Deathridge (born in Birmingham, 21 October 1944) is a British musicologist. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Lincoln College, Oxford (MA, DPhil) culminating with a dissertation on Wagner's sketches for Rienzi, and is currently Professor of Music at King's College London. Deathridge currently lives in Cambridge.

Professional life

After graduation he worked as full-time director of music at St Wolfgang, Munich, where he continued his research on Wagner and acted as a conductor and broadcaster. Deathridge has also taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago and worked as an editor of the Wagner complete edition. Also, he was fellow and director of studies in music at King's College, Cambridge.

Deathridge is regarded as one of the world's foremost Wagner experts and a noted authority on Beethoven. Now King Edward VII Professor of Music at King's College London, as well as a former Head of the prestigious Department of Music at that institution, he has been active as a conductor, organ recitalist and piano accompanist. His career includes being a radio and television broadcaster and a reviewer for scholarly music journals in Germany and Britain.

Between 2005 and 2008 he served as President of the Royal Musical Association,^[1] Britain's foremost learned music society. Music and social theory is a keen research interest of Deathridge, in particular the work of Theodor W. Adorno. However, his main area of research remains 19th and 20th-century German music, especially Wagner.

Selected works

Translation Editor, Wagner Handbook, Edited by Ulrich Muller and Peter Wapnewski. Harvard University Press.

Notes and references

1. ^ Royal Music Association Website, accessed 3 December 2009

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