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John Tyrrell (musicologist)

British musicologist (1942–2018)

Summary

British musicologist (1942–2018)

Field	Value
name	John Tyrrell
birth_date	17 August 1942
birth_place	Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
(now Harare, Zimbabwe)
death_date
nationality	British
fields	Musicology, Czech studies
workplaces	University of Cardiff
known_for	Study of Czech music, particularly biography of L. Janacek, editor of second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

(now Harare, Zimbabwe)

John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist. He published several books on Leoš Janáček, including an authoritative and largely definitive two-volume biography. Tyrrell was born in Salisbury, Zimbabwe and worked as a professor of music and executive editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He died in 2018, aged 76.

Early life and education

Tyrrell was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), he studied at the universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Brno. He graduated Bachelor of Music at the University of Cape Town following which he moved to the University of Oxford to pursue a doctoral degree under the supervision of Edmund Rubbra.

Career

Tyrrell started his career working in an editorial capacity at The Musical Times. He was a lecturer in music at the University of Nottingham (1976), becoming Reader in Opera Studies (1987) and Professor (1996). From 1996 to 2000 he was Executive Editor of the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001). From 2000 to 2008, he was research professor at Cardiff University.

He received numerous awards and honours throughout his career. In 2002, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Masaryk University. Then again in 2012, he was awarded another honorary doctorate by the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, situated in Janáček's hometown of Brno. In 2018, he received the Classic Prague Award. Later that year, the Janáček Festival was also dedicated in his honour.

Death

He died on the morning of 4 October 2018 at the age of 76.

References

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(28 October 2018). "John Tyrrell, musicologist who helped revive interest in Leos Janácek – obituary". The Telegraph.
"Professor John Tyrell". [[University of Nottingham]].
"Professor John Tyrrell (1942–2018)".
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120220192131/http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/music/contactsandpeople/profiles/tyrrellj.html Cardiff University faculty profile].
(16 October 2018). "John Tyrrell (1942–2018)".
"Janáček Festival 2018: dedicated to John Tyrrell".
(5 October 2018). "Zemřel John Tyrrell, přední odborník na tvorbu Leoše Janáčka".

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