John Gordon Williamson (born 1949) is a Scottish musicologist and retired academic. After studying music and history at the

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, he completed his doctoral studies at

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. In 1974, he was appointed to a

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at the

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; he was subsequently a professor of music and head of the School of Music there. He specialises in Austro-German music between 1850 and 1950, and he has studied the works of Pfitzner,

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and

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Selected publications

* ''The Music of Hans Pfitzner'' (Oxford University Press, 1992). * ''Strauss: 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'' (Cambridge University Press, 1993). * (Editor) ''The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Williamson, John Living people 1949 births Scottish musicologists Alumni of the University of Glasgow Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Academics of the University of Liverpool Bruckner scholars Liszt scholars Mahler scholars Pfitzner scholars Strauss scholars Wolf scholars