Peter Evans
English musicologist
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- Bachelors Musicology University of Oxford
- Masters Musicology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Angus Evans was an English musicologist, most noteworthy for his book The Music of Benjamin Britten. Evans was born in West Hartlepool and received his early education at the local Grammar school. He studied with Arthur Hutchings and A.E.F. Dickinson at Durham University from 1947 to 1951 and gained a first-class BA in 1950. He taught music at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury before gaining his Fellowship Diploma from the Royal College of Organists in 1952. He was then appointed a lecturer at Durham University in 1953. He graduated with a BMus from Durham in that year and took the MA with a dissertation on 17th-century chamber music manuscripts in Durham Cathedral Library. He was awarded the DMus by the university in 1958. From 1961 to 1990 he was professor of music at the University of Southampton, where two of his many achievements were the creation of a music honours degree course from inauspicious beginnings, and the addition of a fine, purpose-built performance venue, the Turner Sims Concert Hall to the University's campus , in collaboration with the Southampton Institute of Sound and Vibration Research.
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