The Tovey Professorship of Music was established as a named chair at the University of Edinburgh by an ordinance (no. 550) approved by the University Court in 1965 and by the Privy Council the following year. The first person appointed to the chair was
Michael Tilmouth
Michael Tilmouth (30 November 1930 – 12 November 1987) was an English musicologist.
Biography
Born in Grimsby, Michael Tilmouth was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1954 and completing his doctoral studies in 1960 with hi ...
, in 1971. He died in 1987. The next appointment was
Simon Frith
Simon Webster Frith (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist and former rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. He is Tovey Chair of Music at University of Edinburgh.
Career
As a student, he read PPE at Oxford and earned a ...
, OBE, who held the chair from 2006 until retiring in 2017.
"Professor Simon Frith"
''University of Edinburgh''. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
References
Professorships at the University of Edinburgh
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