Jim Samson

Thomas James Samson was born on 6 July 1946 in Carnlough in Northern Ireland. Educated at Queen's University Belfast (BMus) and studied with Arnold Whittall at the University College, Cardiff (MMus, PhD). == Honours and awards ==

Samson was awarded the Order of Merit by the Polish government in 1990 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy, in 2000. In 2018, he received the IRC Harrison Medal from the Society for Musicology in Ireland. == Selected publications ==

• Music in Transition: A Study of the Tonal Expansion and Early Atonality, 1900–1920 (Dent, 1977; reprinted in 1993). • The Music of Szymanowski (Kahn and Averill, 1980). • The Music of Chopin (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985; reprinted by Clarendon Press, 1994). • Chopin: The Four Ballades (Cambridge University Press, 1992). • (Editor) The Cambridge Companion to Chopin (Cambridge University Press, 1992). • Chopin (Oxford University Press, 1996). • (Editor) The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press, 2002). • Virtuosity and the Musical Work: the Transcendental Studies of Liszt (Cambridge University Press, 2003). • (Edited with J. P. E. Harper-Scott) Introduction to Music Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2008). • Music in the Balkans (Brill, 2013). • (Edited with Nicoletta Demetriou) Music in Cyprus (Routledge, 2015). == References ==