Tyson, Alan (Walker)

Tyson, Alan (Walker), esteemed Scottish musicologist; b. Glasgow, Oct. 27, 1926. He was educated at Magdalen Coll.,Oxford, where he studied litterae humaniores (1947-51); in 1952 he was elected a fellow of All Souls Coll., Oxford; later pursued training in psychoanalysis and medicine (qualified, 1965). In 1971 he became a senior research fellow at All Souls Coll., a position he retained until 1994. He also was a visiting prof, of music at Columbia Univ. (1969), the Lyell Reader in Bibliography at the Univ. of Oxford (1973-74), the Ernest Bloch Prof, of Music at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley (1977-78), a member of the Inst. for Advanced Study at Princeton Univ. (1983-84), and a visiting prof. at the Graduate Center of the City Univ. of N.Y. (1985). In 1989 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1991 he was made a corresponding member of the American Musicological Soc. He has made extensive textual and bibliographical studies of the period 1770-1850; particularly noteworthy are his contributions to the study of Beethoven.

Writings

The Authentic English Editions of Beethoven (London, 1963); with O. Neighbour, English Music Publishers’ Plate Numbers in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (London, 1965); Thematic Catalogue of the Works ofMuzio dementi (Tutzing, 1967); ed., Beethoven Studies (N.Y., 1974), Beethoven Studies 2 (London, 1977), Beethoven Studies 3 (London, 1982); Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores (Cambridge, Mass., 1987); ed. with A. Rosenthal, Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue: A Facsimile (1990); Watermarks in Mozart’s Autographsin the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (X/33/Abteilung, 2, 1992).

Bibliography

S. Brandenburg, ed., Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Studies in the Music of the Classical Period: Essays in Honour of A. T.(Oxford, 1995.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire