The Reminiscences and Selected Criticism of Herbert Thompson

Michael Allis is Professor of Musicology at the University of Leeds. He has published widely on a range of British composers, including the books Parry’s Creative Process (2003) and Granville Bantock’s Letters to William Wallace and Ernest Newman, 1893-1921 (2017). Often incorporating an interdisciplinary approach, as in his 2012 book British Music and Literary Context, and studies of musical refigurings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Tennyson, Poe, Villon, Southey and Shelley, he has also explored the role of music in the writings of Aldous Huxley, Aleister Crowley and Robertson Davies. He is currently working on a study of Bantock’s literature-inspired orchestral works.

Paul Watt is an Adjunct Professor of Musicology at The University of Adelaide and Director of Research at the Busking Project, Berlin. He is the author of three books, Ernest Newman: A Critical Biography (2017), The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in In Nineteenth-Century England (2018), and Music, Morality and Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2023) He currently writing a history of Gregorian chant in Australia.