Robert Donington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRobert Donington
British musicologist
Date of Birth: 04-May-1907
Place of Birth: Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 20-Jan-1990
Profession: musicologist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Robert Donington
- Robert Donington (4 May 1907 – 20 January 1990) was a British musicologist and instrumentalist influential in the early music movement and in Wagner studies. He 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 was born in Leeds, and died in Firle, Sussex at the age of 82.
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