Banks, Paul (musicologist)

Paul Banks is a British musicologist and educator .

He graduated from the University of Exeter , defended his thesis on the early period of life and work of Gustav Mahler at Oxford University . In 1979 - 1989 taught at the University of London , continuing Mahler's studies. Banks' accomplishment, which caused the widest resonance, belongs to this period: in the Austrian archive he found the compositions of Hans Rott , the early deceased composer, who is now called the “missing link between Bruckner and Mahler”, lying there for more than a hundred years. ^[1] In 1989 , Rott's Symphony was first performed, completed by him in 1878 , after which the name of this composer entered an integral part in the history of music of the late 19th century.

After 1989 , Banks served as a librarian at the Benjamin Britten and Peter Pierce Library in Oldborough and by 1999 had prepared a catalog of Britten's published works. The other two composers whose work is in Banks' research focus are Ferruccio Busoni and Hector Berlioz (Banks is currently the editor-in-chief of the new collected works of Berlioz). He teaches music history at the Royal College of Music and leads the Center for Performance History , which was established at the College, which, in particular, in collaboration with Cardiff University, oversees a unique project for collecting, digitizing and entering into an online database stored in libraries museums and archives of the UK and Ireland concert programs ^[2] .