Oliver Neighbour
British musicologist and librarian
About Oliver Neighbour
Lived 1923 – 2015 (aged 91). Oliver Neighbour was a British musicologist, librarian and music librarian.
Oliver Wray Neighbour, FBA (1 April 1923 – 20 January 2015) was a British musicologist and bibliographer. Along with Thurston Dart, Nigel Fortune and Stanley Sadie he was one of Britain's leading musicologists of the post-World War II generation.
Life and career Born in Merstham, Surrey, on 1 April 1923, Neighbour studied at Birkbeck College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1950 on modern languages. He later became music librarian of the British Museum from 1976 to 1985, succeeding Alexander Hyatt King.
His main fields of research were 19th-century English music, as well as composers William Byrd and Arnold Schoenberg.
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British musicologist and librarian (1923-2015)
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Oliver Neighbour was born on 1 April 1923.
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Oliver Neighbour died on 20 January 2015.
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Oliver Neighbour was a musicologist, librarian and music librarian.
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