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		Creator		Platt, Peter, 1924-2000
		Title		Peter Platt - papers, n.d.-2000
		Level of Description		Collection
		Date of Work		n.d.-2000
		Type of Material		Textual Records
		Call Number		ACCESSION RECORD
		Physical Description		40 boxes
		Administrative / Biographical Note		Peter Platt, Professor of Music, was born in 1924 at Sheffield England, son of Baron and Lady Platt. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, in 1941 and after war service studied at Oxford University from 1946. Between 1952 and 1957 Peter Platt was senior lecturer in Music at the University of Sydney. In 1957 he was appointed to the Chair of Music University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and remained in that position until his appointment in 1975 to the Chair of Music at the University of Sydney. Peter Platt died in 2000.
		Source		Presented by Mrs Jean Platt in 2000


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		Subject		Composition (Music) Music -- Instruction and study. Music -- Manuscripts. Music teachers -- Australia.