Donald James Burrows (born 28 December 1945, inLondon)^[1] is amusicologist and a leading scholar of the music ofGeorge Frideric Handel. Until his retirement, he was professor of music at theOpen University.^[2][3]

Heread history and music atTrinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1968;PGCE 1969;MA 1971). He completed hisPhD at theOpen University in 1981. He is vice-president of theHändel-Gesellschaft, and chairman of the Handel Institute.^[4]

• 2000Handel Prize^[5]

• Donald Burrows (2000). "Reading the Metre: Verse Forms in Oratorio Librettos written for Handel by Charles Jennens and Thomas Morell". In David Greer (ed.).Musicology and Sister Disciplines (proceedings of the 16th International Congress, London, 1997).International Musicological Society, Oxford University Press. p. 622.ISBN 978-0-19-816734-1.
• Donald Burrows, ed. (1997).The Cambridge Companion to Handel.Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-521-45613-5.
• Donald Burrows (2005).Handel and the English Chapel Royal. Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-816228-5.

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