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Professor David R.M Irving FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2026
Honours
FAHA, FRHistS
Subjects
Art history, History, Music
Sections
History of Art and Music

Summary

David R.M Irving's research interests are music and colonialism from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries; the role of music in early-modern intercultural contact; global histories of music; the revival of “early music”; and historical performance practice.

Current post

Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC ICREA Research Professor in Musicology

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