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Peter Williams ( musicologist ) Peter Williams ( 14 May 1937 - 20 March 2016 ) was an English musicologist , author , harpsichordist , organist , and professor . Williams was considered one of the leading scholars on the organ and the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach . Life and education . Peter Fredric Williams was born in Wolverhampton , England on 14 May 1937 to a Methodist family . He received a Bachelor of Arts ( 1958 ) , Bachelor of Music ( 1959 ) , Master of Arts ( 1962 ) , and a Ph.D . ( 1963 ) at St . Johns College in Cambridge . Williams became a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in 1962 , eventually becoming a reader in 1972 , then a Professor ten years later , where he held the first chair in performance practice in the UK . He was made Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at Duke University in Durham , North Carolina in 1985 . Here , he was also chairman of the music department ( 1985-1988 ) , university organist ( 1985-1990 ) , and the director of the graduate center for performance practice studies ( 1990-1997 ) . He was a Professor at Cardiff University from 1996 to 2002 , and served as Chairman , subsequently President , of the British Institute of Organ Studies from 1996 to 2002 . He was also a patron of the Cambridge Academy of Organ Studies , since its inception in 2004 . Williams married in 1982 , and had two sons , as well as a daughter and a son from a previous marriage . Research and Publications . Williams was a prolific writer in the venues of organ and harpsichord building and performance . He published his first major writing , The European Organ , 1450-1850 in 1966 , and Figured Bass Accompaniment in 1970 . He published his defining work , the three-volume The Organ Music of J.S . Bach through Cambridge University Press in the 1980s , then revised and combined these in a one-volume second edition in 2003 . It was here where Williams suggested that the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor , BWV 565 was probably not written for the organ , and possibly not by Bach . He further reiterated this statement in a 1981 article for the journal , Early Music . He served as a general editor of 80 volumes of the Biblioteca Organologica series since 1966 , and was a founding editor of The Organ Yearbook since 1969 . Bibliography . - The European Organ 1450-1850 ( London , 1966 ; 2nd edition , 1968 ) - Figured Bass Accompaniment ( 2 vols. , Edinburgh , 1970 ; 2nd edition , 1972 ) - Bach Organ Music ( London , 1972 ; 2nd edition , 1974 ) - A New History of the Organ From the Greeks to the Present Day ( London , 1980 ) - The Organ Music of J.S . Bach : - 1st edition in 3 volumes ( Cambridge , 1980s ) : 1 . BWV 525–598 , 802–805 , etc . ( 1980 , ) 2 . BWV 599–771 , etc . ( 1980 , ) 3 . A Background ( 1984 , ) - 2nd edition in one volume ( 2003 , ) - ( As an editor ) : Bach , Handel and Scarlatti ; Tercentenary Essays ( Cambridge , 1985 ) - Playing the Works of Bach ( New York , 1986 ) - The Organ ( London and New York , 1988 ) - ( With L . Todd , editor ) : Mozart : Perspectives in Performance ( Cambridge , 1991 ) - The Organ in Western Culture 750-1250 ( Cambridge , 1993 ) - The King of Instruments or , How Do Churches Come to Have Organs ? ( London , 1993 ) - The Goldberg Variations ( Cambridge University Press , 2001 ) - The Life of Bach ? ( 2004 ) External links . - Obituary from The Guardian