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Pamela Willetts

1929 – 2019

English musicologist

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Lived 1929 – 2019 (aged 89). Pamela Willetts was a musicologist.

Pamela Joan Willetts FSA (9 April 1929 - 25 January 2019) was an English musicologist and the deputy keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum. She produced the first catalogue since 1816 of the manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London, an organisation of which she was a fellow.

Selected publications "The Dohnányi Collection", The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1/2 (Mar. 1962), pp. 3–11. "A reconstructed astronomical manuscript from Christ Church Library, Canterbury" in The British Museum Quarterly, 20.1965, 1/2, pp. 22–30. "Musical Connections of Thomas Myriell", Music and Letters, Vol. XLIX, No. 1 (Jan. 1968), pp. 36–42. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/XLIX.1.36 The Henry Lawes Manuscript. British Museum, London, 1969. "Autographs of Angelo Notari", Music and Letters, Vol. L, No. 1 (Jan. 1969), pp. 124–126. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/L.1.124 Beethoven and England: An Account of Sources in the British Museum. British Museum, London, 1970. "The seven-branched candlestick as a Psalter illustration", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 42. (1979), pp. 213–215. Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London. D.S. Brewer, 2000.

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Education
Newnham College, Tiffin School
Awards
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
Also known as
Pamela Joan Willetts

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Frequently asked questions

Who was Pamela Willetts?

English musicologist (1929-2019)

When was Pamela Willetts born?

Pamela Willetts was born on 9 April 1929.

When did Pamela Willetts die?

Pamela Willetts died on 25 January 2019.

What was Pamela Willetts's occupation?

Pamela Willetts was a musicologist.

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