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Lectures on music, delivered at Oxford University, by William Crotch in 1797. He was both Professor of Music at Oxford and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music.

An exceptional child prodigy at the keyboard, the organist and composer William Crotch (1775 1847) attracted the attention of both George III and Charles Burney, going on to become one of the most eminent musical figures of his day. Following a period of study in Cambridge, at the age of fifteen he was appointed organist at Christ Church, Oxford. At twenty-one he assumed the university's chair of music, a post he retained until his death. The first principal of the Royal Academy of Music between 1822 and 1832, Crotch is remembered today for his oratorio Palestine. The present work, which...

An exceptional child prodigy at the keyboard, the organist and composer William Crotch (1775 1847) attracted the attention of both George III and Charles Burney, going on to become one of the most eminent musical figures of his day. Following a period of study in Cambridge, at the age of fifteen he was appointed organist at Christ Church, Oxford. At twenty-one he assumed the university's chair of music, a post he retained until his death. The first principal of the Royal Academy of Music between 1822 and 1832, Crotch is remembered today for his oratorio Palestine. The present work, first...

The lectures on music which Crotch delivered at Oxford after becoming Heyther Professor of Music in 1797 were the first of their kind. Illustrated by performed extracts from the neglected music of the past, they encouraged historical awareness of musical style and further stimulated the revival of early music.