John Stevens (musicologist)

John Stevens
Born
John Edgar Stevens

8 October 1921
London, England
Died14 February 2002(2002-02-14) (aged 80)
Cambridge, England
NationalityEnglish
AwardsDerek Allen Prize (1989)
Academic background
Alma materMagdalene College, Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineMusicology
Sub-discipline
Institutions

John Edgar Stevens, CBE, FBA (8 October 1921 – 14 February 2002) was an English musicologist, literary scholar and historian, whose research focused on the words of medieval and Renaissance music. He was the Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge from 1978 to 1988.