Robert Donington (4 May 1907 – 20 January 1990) was an English musicologist and instrumentalist. He was influential in the early music movement and in Wagner studies.
Life and career.
Robert Donington was born on 4 May 1907 in Leeds, Englands, UK. was educated at St Paul's School, London, and studied at the University of Oxford. His expert knowledge of early instruments and the interpretation of pre-classical music owed much to a period of study with Arnold Dolmetsch at Haslemere, Surrey. He was appointed OBE in the 1979 Birthday Honours.
He died in Firle, Sussex on 20 January 1990 at the age of 82.
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