John Hamilton Warrack (born 9 February 1928) is an Englishmusic critic, writer on music, andoboist.
Born in London, Warrack is the son of Scottish conductor and composerGuy Warrack and Jacynth Mary Ellerton. He was educated atWinchester College (1941–1946) and theRoyal College of Music (1949–1952).[1] In the early 1950s he was a freelance oboist, playing mostly with theBoyd Neel Orchestra andSadler's Wells Orchestra.[1] From 1954 until 1961 he was music critic forThe Daily Telegraph, and from 1961 until 1972 forThe Sunday Telegraph. From 1978 until 1983 he served as the artistic director of theLeeds Festival. From 1984 until 1993 he taught on the music faculty at theUniversity of Oxford.
He is the author ofSix Great Composers (1955);Carl Maria von Weber (Hamish Hamilton, 1968, 2nd ed.Cambridge UP, 1976), the standard study ofWeber in English;[2]German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner (2001) and the co-author ofThe Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (1964, withHarold Rosenthal) andThe Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (1992, with Ewan West).[3]
Warrack lives inHelmsley, North Yorkshire.[1] He is the father of the stonemason Simon Warrack.[4]
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