Donald Burrows
Musicologist

Donald Burrows

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28 December 1945(London, UK)
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Trinity Hall
The Open University
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Donald James Burrows (born 28 December 1945, in London) is Professor of Music at the Open University, and a leading scholar of the music of George Frideric Handel.

He read History and Music at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1968; PGCE 1969; MA 1971). He completed his PhD at the Open University in 1981. He is Vice-President of the Händel-Gesellschaft, and Chairman of the Handel Institute.

Awards

  • 2000 Handel Prize

Works

  • "Reading the Metre", Musicology and sister disciplines, International Musicological Society. Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-816734-1
  • Donald Burrows, ed. (1997). The Cambridge companion to Handel. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45613-5.
  • Donald Burrows (2005). Handel and the English Chapel Royal. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-816228-5.