Professor of Music (Cambridge)

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^[1]
• 2009 Nicholas Cook^[2][3]
• 2017 Katharine Ellis^[4][5]