David Osmond-Smith (27 December 1946 - 31 May 2007) was a leading British musicologist, author, and academic. Born in Worthing, West Sussex, he was educated at Magdalen College school, Oxford (1956-65) before reading music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1965-68). After graduating, he undertook doctoral research at the University of York (1968-70). An Italian government scholarship to research in Milan with Umberto Eco (1970-71) and an ...
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David Osmond-Smith (27 December 1946 - 31 May 2007) was a leading British musicologist, author, and academic. Born in Worthing, West Sussex, he was educated at Magdalen College school, Oxford (1956-65) before reading music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1965-68). After graduating, he undertook doctoral research at the University of York (1968-70). An Italian government scholarship to research in Milan with Umberto Eco (1970-71) and an ensuing scholarship from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique to research in Paris with Roland Barthes (1972-73) followed. In 1973 he joined the music department at the University of Sussex where he became professor in 1994, and remained a research professor after early retirement in 2003. Outside his academic work, he conducted numerous orchestras and choirs and gave talks at the Glyndebourne opera house. David Osmond-Smith died in Rodwell, on May 31, 2007.
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