Oliver Neighbour
Oliver Wray Neighbour, FBA was a British musicologist and bibliographer. Along with Thurston Dart, Nigel Fortune and Stanley Sadie he was one of Britain's leading musicologists of the post-World [War II] generation.
Life and career
Born in Merstham, Surrey, on 1 April 1923, Neighbour studied at Birkbeck College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1950 on modern languages. He later became music librarian of the British Museum from 1976 to 1985, succeeding Alexander Hyatt King.His main fields of research were 19th-century English music, as well as composers William Byrd and Arnold Schoenberg.