Britannica, an authoritative national collection of British music. In 1952 he revised Ernest Walker's History of Music in England. In 1959 he succeeded Eric Blom as editor of Music & Letters. He was president of the Royal Musical Association 1958–63, the Incorporated Society of Musicians 1963, and the Royal College of Organists 1964–66. From 1963 to 1971 he was joint artistic director of the English Bach Festival with its founder Lina Lalandi. The festival was originally in Oxford but in time it moved to London. He conducted the Oxford Opera Club 1947–62, the Oxford University Orchestra 1954–63, and the Oxford Bach Choir and Oxford Orchestra Society 1970–71. In 1966 he was one of the first advisers to Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM). Sir Jack Westrup died in 1975. His wife Solweig Maria née Rösell died in 1984. His appearance and dress has been described as "deceptively ramshackle". Peter Sculthorpe, on first encountering him at Wadham College, mistook him for a janitor. Compositions He wrote a Divertimento in three short movements, for tenor saxophone, cello and piano. He also arranged a number of chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach for two pianos. Honours In 1946 Jack Westrup received an honorary degree of D.Mus. from Oxford University. He was knighted in 1961. His collection of 4,500 books on music history and musicology became the basis of the Westrup Library at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Music & Letters now awards a Jack Westrup Prize in Musicology. Writings Purcell (1937; part of the Master Musicians series; 4th edition, revised, 1980) Handel (1938) Liszt (1940) Sharps and Flats (1940) British Music (1943; 3rd edition, 1949) The Meaning of Musical History (1946) An Introduction to Musical History (1955) Music: Its Past and Its Present (Washington, D.C., 1964) Bach Cantatas (1966) Schubert Chamber Music (1969) Musical Interpretation'' (1971) Sources bach-cantatas References 1904 births 1975 deaths Academics of the Royal Academy of Music Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British music educators English musicologists English conductors (music) British male conductors (music) English classical composers 20th-century classical composers English writers Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford Knights Bachelor Composers awarded knighthoods Conductors (music) awarded knighthoods People educated at Dulwich College Heather Professors of Music 20th-century British conductors (music) 20th-century English composers English male classical composers Fellows of the British Academy 20th-century British musicologists 20th-century British male musicians 20th-century English male writers Presidents of the Independent Society of Musicians