John Purser, born in 1942 in Glasgow, Scotland, is an eminent composer, musicologist, and music historian. He is also a playwright.
He initiated the reconstruction that commenced in 1991 of the Iron Age Deskford Carnyx, producing a replica that was first played in 1993 by trombonist John Kenny.
Purser's book Scotland's Music, published in March 1992, was a major reference work on musical history from the Bronze Age to the present. It was followed by a thirty-programme radio series of the same ti...
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