Westrup, Jack (Allan) (1904-1975)

English musicologist, critic, composer, and conductor. He was educated at Dulwich College and Balliol College, Oxford, where as an undergraduate he edited Monteverdi's Orfeo and Incoronazione di Poppea for performance by the Oxford University Opera Club. He taught classics at Dulwich College 1928-34, and was an assistant music critic on the Daily Telegraph 1934-40. From 1941 to 1944 he was lecturer in music at King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1944-46 professor of music at Birmingham University and 1947-71 professor at Oxford. He conducted Idomeneo and Les Troyens, the first performance of E Wellesz's Incognita and the first UK performance of Hans Heiling and L'Enfant et les sortilèges. He was chairman of the editorial board of the New Oxford History of Music and editor of the sixth volume thereof; he was also editor of Music and Letters from 1959. Other literary work includes a book on Purcell and the fourth and fifth editions of the Everyman Dictionary of Music (1962 and 1971).

Works Choral motet When Israel came out of Egypt for unaccompanied double chorus.

Orchestral passacaglia for orchestra.

Vocal part-song Weathers; three Shakespeare songs.