// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Peter le Huray? A guy with a huray to fame.
Peter le Huray | |
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| Born | 1930 |
| Died | 7 October 1992 (aged 61–62) |
| Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Occupations | Musicologist; Director of Music |
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| Spouse | Bridget Payne (m. 1965) |
Peter le Huray (1930 – 7 October 1992) was an English musicologist and Director of Music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, which before his tenure had not been notable for its music.
He was born, to a Guernsey family, in South London in 1930.[1] He received an organ-scholarship to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, which he attended from 1948, and where he received double first-class honours in music and the Barclay Squire Prize.[1] His PhD, on The English Anthem 1580-1640, was supervised by the musicologist Thurston Dart.[1]
His friends included the chorister and choral conductor Peter Stanley Lyons of St John's College, Cambridge, who obtained for him the job of Sunday organist at Vanbrugh Castle School between 1951 and 1954.[2]
He invited keyboardist Gustav Leonhardt and the Kuijken brothers to the St. Catharine's to give masterclasses, and acquired for it original instruments for historically accurate performances.[1] He served as Director of Music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, during the 1960s, as which he commissioned the college's extant premier organ, from Cambridge organ-builder William Johnson, which was completed in 1979 and is now in need of repair.[3]
He published the authoritative Music and the Reformation in England in 1967.[1] He specialised in post-Henrican English church-music.[1] Also influential were his Musica Britannica volume, about the anthems and motets of Matthew Locke, and his anthology, Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries (1981), and his recording of the complete works of Franz Liszt.[1]
He married Bridget Payne in 1965, by whom he had one son and one daughter, and died in Cambridge on 7 October 1992.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Obituary: Peter le Huray". The Independent, 12 October 1992.
- ↑ "Vanbrugh Castle School, A Boy's History of the School".
- ↑ "Organ Restoration Appeal". St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 2026.
- 1930 births
- 1992 deaths
- British people of Guernsey descent
- Musicians from London
- 20th-century British male musicians
- Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
- Scholars of Renaissance music
- 20th-century English musicologists
- English male conductors (music)
- 20th-century English conductors (music)
- English choral conductors
- English classical organists
- English male classical organists
- 20th-century English organists
- St Catharine's College, Cambridge
- English patrons of music