The Curt Sachs Award 2010

Jeremy Montagu

Jeremy Montagu, retired curator of the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments at the University of Oxford, has been involved in early music as a professional musician for nearly forty years. He is an emeritus fellow of Wadham College in the University of Oxford, England. Montagu began collecting musical instruments in the early 1960s and formed a collection of about 2,500 instruments from many countries of the world. His many publications include: "The World of Medieval and Renaissance musical instruments" (1976); "Making early percussion instruments" (1976); " "The world of baroque and classical musical instruments" (1979); "The World of romantic & modern musical instruments" (1981); "Musical Instruments of the bible" (2002); "Timpani and percussion" (2002); "Origins and development of musical instruments" (2007).

 The Curt Sachs Award is given annually for important contributions in the field of organology.