John Williamson (musicologist) explained

John Gordon Williamson (born 1949) is a Scottish musicologist and retired academic. After studying music and history at the University of Glasgow, he completed his doctoral studies at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1974, he was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Liverpool;^{[1] [2]} he was subsequently a professor of music and head of the School of Music there. He specialises in Austro-German music between 1850 and 1950, and he has studied the works of Pfitzner, Strauss, Liszt, Mahler and Wolf.^{[3] [4]}

Selected publications

• The Music of Hans Pfitzner (Oxford University Press, 1992).
• Strauss: 'Also Sprach Zarathustra (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
• (Editor) The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Notes and References

1. The New Hungarian Quarterly, vol. 27 (1986), p. 240.
2. The Writers Directory 2005, vol. 2 (2004), p. 1831.
3. "Professor John Williamson", School of Music, University of Liverpool, as archived on 13 August 2004.
4. "Staff", School of Music, University of Liverpool, as archived on 17 August 2004.