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W. H. (William Henry) Hadow
1859–1937
A respected British musicologist, composer, and education reformer, he helped shape both musical scholarship and modern schooling in early 20th-century Britain. He is especially remembered for his writing on music and for the influential Hadow Reports on education.
2 Audiobooks
Studies in modern music, second series : Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms
by W. H. (William Henry) Hadow
A Croatian composer : notes toward the study of Joseph Haydn
by W. H. (William Henry) Hadow
About the author
Born in Ebrington, Gloucestershire, on December 27, 1859, William Henry Hadow studied at Malvern College and Worcester College, Oxford. He built a career that combined scholarship, teaching, and music, becoming known as a thoughtful writer on composers and music history as well as a skilled academic leader.
Hadow wrote widely on music, including studies of composers such as Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin, and he edited volumes of The Oxford History of Music. His work helped make serious music criticism and history more accessible to general readers, which is one reason his books have remained of interest to later audiences.
He also played an important public role in education. After serving at Oxford, he became Principal of Armstrong College in Newcastle and later Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield. He was a leading educational reformer in Britain, and the Hadow Reports of the 1920s and 1930s became closely associated with his name. He died in London on April 8, 1937.