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Gresham Professor of Music

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The Professor of Music at Gresham College
Gresham College
Gresham College is an unusual institution of higher learning off Holborn in central London. It enrolls no students and grants no degrees. The Collège de France offers perhaps a Parisian equivalent....

, London

London

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, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596 / 7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to eight and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

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The Professor of Music at Gresham College
Gresham College
Gresham College is an unusual institution of higher learning off Holborn in central London. It enrolls no students and grants no degrees. The Collège de France offers perhaps a Parisian equivalent....

, London

London

[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...

, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596 / 7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to eight and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

The Professor of Music is always appointed by the City of London Corporation.

(Years given as, say, 1596 / 7 refer to Old Style and New Style dates

Old Style and New Style dates

Old Style and New Style are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January even though contemporary documents use a different start of year ; or to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian calendar ,...

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1	John Bull John Bull (composer) John Bull was an English composer, musician, and organ builder. He was a renowned keyboard performer and most of his compositions were written for this medium.-Life:Bull's place of birth is shrouded in uncertainty...	March 1596 / 7
2	Thomas Clayton	20 Dec 1607
3	John Taverner	17 Nov 1610
4	Richard Knight	28 August 1638
5	Sir William Petty William Petty Sir William Petty was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers... FRS	7 Feb 1650 / 1
6	Thomas Baynes	8 March 1660 / 1
7	William Perry	9 August 1681
8	John Newey	9 Oct 1696
9	Robert Shippen	4 Dec 1705
10	Edward Shippen Edward Shippen Edward Shippen was the second mayor of Philadelphia, from 1701 to 1703...	7 Oct 1710
11	John Gordon	16 Jan 1723 / 4
12	Thomas Brome	12 March 1739 / 40
13	Charles Gardner Charles Gardner Charles Austin Gardner was a Western Australian botanist.Born in Lancaster, England on 6 January 1896, he emigrated to Western Australia with his family in 1909....	6 Dec 1745
14	T. Griffin	11 Jan 1763
15	Theodore Aylward Sr. Theodore Aylward Sr. Theodore Aylward was and English organist.He was an Organist, successively of St Lawrence Jewry and St Michael, Cornhill , in London, and of St. George's Chapel, Windsor . As well as these appointments, he was the Gresham Professor of Music...	5 June 1771
16	R. J. S. Stevens R. J. S. Stevens Richard John Samuel Stevens was an English composer and organist.-Biography:...	17 March 1801
17	Edward Taylor	24 Oct 1837
18	Henry Wylde Henry Wylde Henry Wylde was an [English] conductor, composer and music critic. He was the eldest son of Henry Wylde the senior, a music teacher and member of the Chapel Royal choir and Martha Lucy Wylde nee Paxton....	10 July 1863
19	Frederick Bridge	30 April 1890
20	Henry Walford Davies Henry Walford Davies Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE was a British composer, who held the title Master of the King's Musick from 1934 until 1941....	11 July 1924
1939–45 Lectures in abeyance
21	Peter Latham	29 May 1946
22	Anthony Hopkins (sp?)	1963
23	Brian Trowell	1971
24	Iannis Xenakis Iannis Xenakis Iannis Xenakis was a Greek composer, music theorist and architect. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...	1975
25	– vacant –	1978-79
26	A Percival	1980
27	– vacant –	1983
28	John Dankworth John Dankworth Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE , known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, is an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist.-Life and music:...	1984
29	Peter Renshaw	1986
30	David Owen Norris David Owen Norris -Life:Norris was born in 1953. He studied music at Keble College, Oxford where he was organ scholar; he is now an Honorary Fellow of the college. After leaving Oxford, he studied composition, and worked at the Royal Opera House as a repetiteur...	1 Sept 1993
31	Stephen Pratt / Joanna MacGregor Joanna MacGregor Joanna MacGregor is an internationally renowned classical, jazz and contemporary pianist. She is also a promoter, an artistic director, an educator and runs her own record label SoundCircus.-Biography:...	1 Sept 1997
32	Piers Hellawell	1 Sept 2000
33	Adrian Thomas Adrian Thomas Adrian Thomas is Professor of Music at Cardiff University. He specializes in Polish Music.-Academic career:Thomas began his professional career at Queen's University Belfast in 1973. Between 1983 and 1984, he was a Visiting Fellow at University of California, San Diego, and after his return to...	1 Sept 2003
34	Roger Parker Roger Parker Roger Parker is an English musicologist, and is currently Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London....	1 Sept 2007

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