The Independent - London, May 19th, 2008
Musicologist and composer
Wilfrid Mellers exerted an enormous influence on several generations of British musicians at their most impressionable phase - as university students. He started the Music Department at York University in 1964 and it quickly became a beacon of enlightenment at a time when new universities were being founded and it was necessary to redefine the teaching of music in this context. Throughout his career, he produced a steady stream of books and articles which earned him a place as one of the most influential and readable British writers on music in the 20th century.
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