Donald James Burrows (born 28 December 1945, in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

) is Professor of Music at the

Open University The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...

, and a leading scholar of the music of George Frideric Handel. He read History and Music at

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...

(BA 1968; PGCE 1969; MA 1971). He completed his PhD at the

in 1981. He is vice-president of the Händel-Gesellschaft, and chairman of the Handel Institute.

Awards

*2000

Handel Prize The Handel Prize (german: Händel-Preis) is an annual award, instituted in 1956, which is presented by the city of Halle, in Germany, in honour of the celebrated Baroque composer George Frideric Handel. It is awarded, "for exceptional artisti ...

Works

*"Reading the Metre", ''Musicology and sister disciplines'', International Musicological Society. Oxford University Press, 2000, * *

References

English musicologists 1945 births Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Alumni of the Open University Academics of the Open University Living people Handel Prize winners {{Musicologist-stub