Rosamond 'Corky' McGuinness (4 December 1929 – 16 March 2012,
London
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) was an
American
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music historian.
McGuinness was born in
Bridgeport, Connecticut
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. She came from a Jewish family, her father, Howard Cohan being a dentist, and her mother Adelaide Zeigler being a music teacher. In 1947 she attended
Vassar College
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where she studied music. However the prospects of a career as a concert pianist disappeared after an eye disease left her partially blind in 1950.
McGuiness was a lecturer at Royal Holloway College from 1969 and became a Professor of Music History there. McGuiness studied the economic and business history of English music and published the Register of Musical Data in London Newspapers.
She retired in 1995. In February 1991 she made an
extended appearance on the
Channel 4
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discussion programme ''
After Dark'' alongside
Charlotte Davis Kasl and
Father Michael Seed, among others.
She married twice, first to
Brian McGuinness
Brian McGuinness (22 October 1927 – 23 December 2019) was a Wittgenstein scholar best known for his translation, with David Pears, of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, ''Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus''.
He was christened with the forenames ...
, the philosopher and later to George Biddlecombe.
Publications
* 1971 ''English Court Odes, 1660-1820'' Oxford: Oxford University Press
References
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1929 births
2012 deaths