David Wyn Jones

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David Wyn Jones FLSW (born 1950) is a British musicologist. He is an expert on music of the Classical period, including that of Haydn and Beethoven.

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Professional life

Wyn Jones received his Ph.D. from the University of Wales in 1978, on the basis of a doctoral dissertation in three volumes entitled The String Quartets of Vanhal . [1] Earlier (1974) he had been appointed as a Lecturer at Cardiff University, and was subsequently promoted there several times: Senior Lecturer (1998), Reader (2002), Professorial Chair (2007). He served as Head of School from March 2008 to July 2013. [2] He serves on the editorial board of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music and the e-journal Haydn. [3] He has given lectures and talks at the BBC Proms, the Edinburgh Festival, and at the Royal Festival Hall and other major venues. [4]

Honors

His book Oxford Composer Companions: Haydn was awarded a prize by the International Association of Music Librarians (UK and Ireland) in 2002. He has served as chairman of the Music Libraries Trust since 2005 and was elected a Vice President of the Royal Musical Association in 2009. [5] In 2019, he was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. [6]

Books

Wyn Jones's books incorporate a large amount of factual information, much of it from recent scholarly research. He tends to favor trustworthy over vivid sources (e.g. for Haydn, the sober Griesinger, in preference to the tale-spinning Dies and Carpani).

List of books:

Editions of music:

Notes

  1. Brook and Viano (1997:460)
  2. Source: Wyn Jones's web site, cited below
  3. Journal site
  4. Jones web site
  5. Jones web site
  6. Wales, The Learned Society of. "David Wyn Jones". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 2023-08-31.

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