Wilfrid Howard Mellers OBE (26 April 1914 – 17 May 2008) was an English music critic, musicologist and composer. Born in Leamington, Warwickshire, Mellers...

suites "among the most profound of all classical music works" and Wilfrid Mellers described them in 1980 as "Monophonic music wherein a man has created...

major are labelled "festive" and are of a primarily celebratory mood. Wilfrid Mellers believed that Mozart's Symphony No. 41, written in 'white' C major...

(1962, p.140) Haydn. London, Dent. Mellers, W. (1983, p.77) Beethoven and the Voice of God. London, Faber. Mellers, Wilfrid. (1983, p.102) Beethoven and the...

journal. After writing many articles for the journal, music critic Wilfrid Mellers appeared on the editorial board of the January 1942 issue, and continued...

Symphony No. 1 Sylvius Leopold Weiss Tombeau sur la Mort de Compte d'Logy Wilfrid Mellers, "Round and About in Górecki's Symphony No. 3" Tempo 168 3 (1989):...

Gods: The Beatles in Retrospect, a 1973 book about The Beatles by Wilfrid Mellers Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945, a 2000...

Sargent and Lady Agnew, with David Cannadine, Kenneth McConkey and Wilfrid Mellers, National Galleries of Scotland, ISBN 090359871X Roberts, Keith (1979)...

the key of E, the tune incorporates chord changes that musicologist Wilfrid Mellers once admired as "audacious"; musically, Harrison biographer Elliot...

Tippett's late works, written in 1982 by the then 77 year-old composer. Wilfrid Mellers called it "a mind-boggling cosmic history of the universe", while Paul...

beautiful" and one of Beethoven's most accomplished melodies. According to Wilfrid Mellers, "Opus 90 belongs neither to [Beethoven’s] middle nor to his late phase...

Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein. Authors Nicholas Schaffner and Wilfrid Mellers are among the commentators who offer their views on the band's career...

of nineteenth century symphonies". The composer and musical scholar Wilfrid Mellers called the symphony "ostensibly autobiographical, yet fundamentally...

different approaches before hitting on this one. However, music critics Wilfrid Mellers and Johnny Rogan state that other elements of the music create some...

myth", Dylan helps the listener achieve that state of liberation. Wilfrid Mellers commented that the song featured "an unremitting talkin' style, and...

Bernard Mayes, journalist, professor and author Ed Mayo, economist Wilfrid Mellers, music critic and composer Karl Miller, literary editor, critic and...

Downing College, Cambridge University of York Influenced David Holbrook Arnold Kettle Wilfrid Mellers Raymond Williams Norman Podhoretz Howard Jacobson...

and determination to reduce the given material to its bare bones: Wilfrid Mellers describes this variation as "comically disruptive... The original tonal...

into all aspects of experience". In 1988 the composer and scholar Wilfrid Mellers wrote of Debussy: Because of, rather than in spite of, his preoccupation...

Yoko Ono as "she looked so beautiful I could eat her." Music critic Wilfrid Mellers interprets this line as evidence of a "cannibalistic impulse" to the...

vocals." Problems playing this file? See media help. Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers, noting the biblical references "All Along the Watchtower", wrote that...

without Spector's "oppressive mush". In 1973, musicologist and critic Wilfrid Mellers wrote: "The music has a tremendous expectancy ... Whether or no Paul...

Rodriguez views as documenting "a litany of letdowns". Music critic Wilfrid Mellers regards the theme of "Remember" to be the debunking of parents' dreams...

blues-style tune. Record World described it as "a rocker." Music critic Wilfrid Mellers considers the vocal line to be based on gospel and soul music, but...

Cambridge and at the University of York, where his PhD was supervised by Wilfrid Mellers. Middleton previously taught at the University of Birmingham and the...

member of the free jazz avant-garde, with no turning back." A review by Wilfrid Mellers shortly after the album's release called the album "the most impressive...

March. "Visions of Johanna" Wilfrid Mellers describes "Visions of Johanna" as one of Dylan's finest songs poetically. For Mellers, "The blurring of time and...

imagination, cheek and skill that make this such a rewarding LP." Wilfrid Mellers, in his review for New Statesman, praised the album's elevation of...

which the sun is permanent but our world may not be. Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers describes "Isolation" as an "Anglicized version of Negro piano blues...

and his despicable oratorio-mongering". In the 1950s the scholar Wilfrid Mellers complained of Mendelssohn's "spurious religiosity which reflected the...