Robert Samuels

Robert’s writings are mostly about nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, and especially about the relationship between music and literature. He has organised a ‘Literature and Music’ research group for many years with Dr Delia da Sousa Correa of the English Department.

Robert has taught for The Open University for twenty-five years, and for many years was one of the Course Directors of the Music Summer School held in Durham. He has written bits of all the modules offered in Music since 1998, and is currently on the writing team of A234 Understanding Music to be launched in October 2020.

Robert lives in Oxford with his family. Like one of his musical heroes, Robert Schumann, he is a keen chess player. He is proud to be currently ranked around the 3,500^th best player in the country, and also writes ‘The Chess and Music Blog’ (https://chessandmusic.wordpress.com/).

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