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- Michael Keith Tanner (15 April 1935 – 3 April 2024) was a British philosopher and opera critic. A life fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, he was a lecturer at Cambridge for 36 years, until his retirement in 1997.
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Michael Keith Tanner (15 April 1935 – 3 April 2024) was a British philosopher and opera critic. A life fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, he was a lecturer at Cambridge for 36 years, [1] until his retirement in 1997. [2]
Apr 4, 2024 · Michael Tanner, who died yesterday at the age of 88, lived two parallel lives. To many Spectator readers, he was the magazine’s peerless opera critic: wise, passionate, thrillingly...
- Igor Toronyi-Lalic
Apr 6, 2024 · Dr Michael Tanner, who has died aged 88, was one of the most brilliant and single-minded Cambridge dons of his generation. He possessed an astonishing intellectual breadth that both...
- Telegraph Obituaries
Michael Tanner (1935-2024), who died earlier this month, had such a vital mind and stood so far above the common run of music critics that it’s hard to believe he’s gone.
Apr 3, 2024 · Michael Tanner introduced the teaching of aesthetics to the Moral Sciences Faculty, and authored books on Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. His great passion was for music, particularly that of Richard Wagner, about whom he also wrote two books.
Apr 4, 2024 · In Memoriam: Michael Tanner (1934-2024) Dr. Tanner, who taught philosophy at Cambridge fore more than three decades, was perhaps best-known as the opera critic for The Spectator, which has published this obituary. He also wrote on topics in value theory, and on Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
Apr 5, 2024 · Michael was also well known—and perhaps more widely known—as a musicologist, above all an expert on Wagner, and as a music critic, writing the Spectator’s opera column for almost two decades. Michael Tanner had been a Fellow of Corpus Christi College since 1961. He will be missed by his colleagues and friends, and by his many former students.
