Paul Banks, BA (Hons), Dphil, HonRCM

Professor of Historical Musicology

Head, Centre for Performance History

After undergraduate studies at the University of Exeter, Paul Banks undertook doctoral research on the early life and music of Gustav Mahler at St John's College, Oxford before taking up an appointment as Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths' College, in 1979. His work on Mahler led to the discovery of the Symphony in E major by Hans Rott, and the work, edited by Paul Banks, was given its world première at Cincinnati in 1989; it has been recorded and widely performed as an important forerunner of Mahler's symphonic style. In 1989 Dr Banks moved to Aldeburgh as Librarian at the Britten-Pears Library, and while there contributed to a number of publications about the music of Benjamin Britten. His other research interests include the music of Berlioz and Busoni, and the history of music printing and publishing. He is currently the Secretary of the Commission Mixte of RIdIM, and a Trustee and General Secretary of the New Berlioz Edition; with Professor John Tyrrell (Cardiff University) he led the AHRC Concert Programmes Project. His current major research project is a long-planned catalogue of the manuscripts and early printed editions of music by Gustav Mahler.

E-mail: pbanks@rcm.ac.uk

Teaching

DMus supervisor

MMus Core Course; Editing

BMus Performance History

Recent Publications

‘Mahler and Music Publishing in Vienna 1878-1903’ in Music and the Book Trade from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. R. Myers, M. Harris, G. Mandelbrote (New Castle/London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2008), 179-98

'Cataloguing printed editions of Mahler', Brio 44/1 (Spring/Summer 2007)

London Music Trades Database (with Jenny Nex) (www.rcm.ac.uk/LMT: 2007)

The Music of Gustav Mahler: A Catalogue of Manuscript and Printed Sources (Phase 1) (www.rcm.ac.uk/Mahlercat: 2007)

‘Harold, de Byron à Berlioz’ in Hector Berlioz, ed. Christian Wasselin and Pierre-René Serna (Paris: L’Herné, 2003), 152–62

Hector Berlioz: Incomplete operas, ed. Ric Graebner, Hugh Macdonald and Paul Banks, New Berlioz Edition, vol. 4 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2003)

Hector Berlioz: Harold en Italie, ed. Paul Banks and Hugh Macdonald, New Berlioz Edition, vol. 17 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2002)

Sir Sourindro Mohun Tagore and the Tagore Medal (London: Royal College of Music, 2000)

Benjamin Britten: A Catalogue of the Published Works (Aldeburgh: Britten–Pears Library, 1999)

Ferruccio Busoni: Chaconne in D minor from Bach’s Partita No. 2 for solo violin (BWV 1004) arranged for solo piano (London: Peters Edition, 1997)