John Warrack

John Hamilton Warrack (born 9 February 1928) is an English music critic, writer on music, and oboist.

Career Born in London, Warrack is the son of Scottish conductor and composer Guy Warrack and Jacynth Mary Ellerton. He was educated at Winchester College (1941–1946) and the Royal College of Music (1949–1952). In the early 1950s he was a freelance oboist, playing mostly with the Boyd Neel Orchestra and Sadler's Wells Orchestra. German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner (2001) and the co-author of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (1964, with Harold Rosenthal) and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (1992, with Ewan West).

Warrack lives in Helmsley, North Yorkshire.