The Professorship of Music was founded in 1684, and is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge. List of Professors of Music 1684 Nicholas Staggins 1705 Thomas Tudway 1730 Maurice Greene 1755 John Randall 1799 Charles Hague 1821 John Clarke Whitfield 1836 Thomas Attwood Walmisley 1856 William Sterndale Bennett 1875 George Alexander Macfarren 1887 Charles Villiers Stanford 1924 Charles Wood 1926–1941 Edward Joseph Dent 1946 Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley 1962 Robert Thurston Dart 1965 Robin Orr 1976 Alexander Goehr 1999 Roger Parker 2009 Nicholas Cook 2017 Katharine Ellis References Music education in the United Kingdom Professorships at the University of Cambridge School of Arts and Humanities, University of Cambridge 1684 establishments in England Cambridge, University of