Nigel Fortune
Nigel Fortune | |
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Born | Nigel Cameron Fortune 5 December 1924 Northumberland, England, United Kingdom |
Died | 10 April 2009 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom | (aged 84)
Nationality | English |
Occupation(s) | Musicologist, political activist |
Nigel Cameron Fortune (5 December 1924 – 10 April 2009) was an English
Fortune's speciality in musicological research was in 17th-century Italian music and on the lives and works of
Life and career
Born in
After receiving his childhood education at the
From 1956 to 1959 Fortune served as music librarian at
In the 1960s Fortune and musicologist Denis Arnold founded an important annual conference for graduate students in music in England which established for the first time in that country a community for music scholarship.[1] With Arnold he also collaborated on The Monteverdi Companion (1968, enlarged and reissued as The New Monteverdi Companion, 1985) and The Beethoven Companion (1971).[3] He collaborated on several other publications with a variety of scholars, mostly as an editor, including a collection of essays in honour of Winton Dean in 1987.[1] He contributed several articles to Musica Britannica from 1975 to 1977 and to the New Oxford History of Music in 1985. While his scholarly work tended to focus on early music, he was a champion of the music of contemporary composer John Casken and for many years provided significant financial support to the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. He died in Birmingham at the age of 84 having never married.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e Whittall, Arnold (22 April 2009). "Nigel Fortune: Musicologist behind a rise in academic standards in Britain". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f "Dr. Nigel Fortune". The Daily Telegraph. 3 May 2009.
- ^ a b c d Peter Dickinson (30 April 2009). "Nigel Fortune: Highly respected musicologist and co-editor of the journal 'Music and Letters'". The Independent.