Mark Everist has been a historian of music and critic for over forty years. His research focuses on the music of the middle ages (c1160-c1320), the stage music of the long nineteenth century (1789-1914), Mozart, critical practice in music in all its forms, and digital scholarship. He is the author of seven single-authored monographs (his is currently contracted for three more), and there are two retrospective collections of his articles and chapters published in 2005 and 2019), and he is the editor of eight collections of essays, five critical editions, and author of over eighty single-authored articles in peer-reviewed journals and collections of essays (ephemera excluded). He has advised on and/or co-ordinated thirteen CD recordings, and today manages four open-access digital resources. With 25 PhDs completed, he currently supervises four doctoral projects, as well as co-directing the international network ‘France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918’.
Everist taught at King’s College London from 1982 to 1996 and thereafter at the University of Southampton. He has been a visiting professor at the Paris Conservatoire, University of Western Australia, University of Melbourne, Institute of Advanced Study, University of London and most recently (2021-2022) at the Sorbonne. He was President of the Royal Musical Association from 2011 to 2017, and elected as corresponding member of the American Musicological Society in 2014 (one of fewer than 20 British scholars elected since 1937). He is also the recipient of the Slim and Solie prizes of the American Musicological Society.
A part-time resident of Paris since 1997, he now divides his time between an 1840s apartment in the city’s’ tenth arrondissement and a 17th-century presbytery in Burgundy. He is married with one daughter, and lives as a legally-documented French resident with his partner and a psychotic terrier called Pippin.
Published biographies are:
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edn, ed. Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, 29 vols (London: Macmillan, 2001) 8:454-5 [errors in 2001 print are corrected in 2006 and subsequent online updates]
- Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik, ed. Ludwig Finscher, 25 vols (Kassel, etc.: Bärenreiter, 1995-2007) Personenteil 6: 591
- Wikipedia
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