Anthony Hicks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Anthony Hicks

British musicologist

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1943

Place of Birth: Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-May-2010

Profession: musicologist

Nationality: Wales

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Anthony Hicks

  • Anthony Hicks (26 June 1943 – 26 May 2010) was a Welsh musicologist, music critic, editor, and writer.
  • Born in Swansea, Hicks read mathematics at King's College London during the mid-1960s and worked for roughly a quarter of century as a computer systems analyst at the University of London (retired 1993).
  • Although he was educated in the field of mathematics and computer science, his own personal obsession with baroque music led him to pursue scholarly music research in his spare time.
  • What began as more or less a hobby developed into a highly distinguished para-career as a historian and writer.
  • He became one of the leading 20th century scholars on George Frideric Handel.As a music critic, Hicks wrote for Early Music Review and The Musical Times.
  • For the 2001 edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians he penned Handel's biography and several other Handel related entries.
  • He also authored most of the Handel related articles in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
  • He became an important advocate for historically informed performances just as the renewed enthusiasm for baroque music began to take off in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • His research has been used widely in preparing baroque works for recordings and performance; most notably with the Academy of Ancient Music with whom he worked closely for several decades.
  • Musicians with whom Hicks collaborated on recordings were Christopher Hogwood, Paul McCreesh, Robert King, Trevor Pinnock, Emma Kirkby, John Eliot Gardiner, and Alan Curtis among many other distinguished baroque performers.
  • He died at the age of 66 in London in 2010 of pulmonary fibrosis.

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