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  • Epilogue

  • David C. H. Wright, Royal College of Music, London
  • Book:
    The Royal College of Music and its Contexts
    Published online:
    26 August 2019
    Print publication:
    05 September 2019, pp 340-352

  • Summary

    This prosopography, or collective biography, gives a more rounded idea of the College and its people. Institutional histories can concentrate so much on the leadership, and the consequences of leaders’ decisions, that the reader may not discover very much about the centrality of the contributions others have made. In the College’s case, this means the teachers themselves. This selection includes some of the more celebrated (and therefore familiar) College figures, but also brings in from the shadows some who were once very influential, but now are largely forgotten; they often feature routinely in biographies (as, for example, R. O. Morris does for Michael Tippett), but usually with little to indicate the scope of the musical guidance they gave to their students. This prosopography cannot be, in any sense, comprehensive; rather, the criterion for inclusion is to illustrate a particular point or circumstance about the transmission of musical influence and the role that the College and its teachers have played in this.