Owain Edwards is a music historian, organist, and composer, as well as a professor of music history at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo. He has research interests in British music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and medieval liturgical chant and literature. More recently, he has been considering the Latin legends of saints from the middle ages. Among his numerous publications are Joseph Parry, 1841-1903 (1970); Beethoven (1972); and English Eighteenth-Century Concertos––An Inventory and Thematic Catalogue (2005).