Donald Burrows (musicologist)

Donald James Burrows (born 28 December 1945, in London) is Professor of Music at the Open University, and a leading scholar of the music of George Frideric Handel.

He read History and Music at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1968; PGCE 1969; MA 1971). He completed his PhD at the Open University in 1981. He is Vice-President of the Händel-Gesellschaft, and Chairman of the Handel Institute.

Awards

• 2000 Handel Music Prize

Works

• "Reading the Metre", Musicology and sister disciplines, International Musicological Society. Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-816734-1