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Christ"s College.
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John Trend
Edit ProfileHispanist music historian university professor
Career
After serving in continental Europe during the First World War, he developed a keen interest in Spanish and the historiography of Spanish music In 1933 he was appointed to the first Chair in Spanish at Cambridge. His areas of expertise included a wide variety of topics, and he was known for such general works as his The Origins of Modern Spain.
He wrote on the composer Manuel de Falla, with whom Trend corresponded regularly, and he was the author of the first critical study of Falla’s work in English: Manuel de Falla and Spanish Music (1929).
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United Kingdom