John Tyrrell (musicologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Tyrrell (musicologist)

British musicologist

Date of Birth: 17-Aug-1942

Place of Birth: Harare, Harare Province, Zimbabwe

Date of Death: 04-Oct-2018

Profession: pedagogue, university teacher, musicologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.
Born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), he studied at the universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Brno.
He was a Lecturer in Music at the University of Nottingham (1976), becoming Reader in Opera Studies (1987) and Professor (1996).
From 1996 to 2000 he was Executive Editor of the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001).
From 2000 to 2008 he was Research Professor at Cardiff University He published several books on Leoš Janácek, including an authoritative and largely definitive two-volume biography. He died in 2018 at the age of 76.