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= Jeremy Montagu = Jeremy Peter Samuel Montagu, MA FSA (27 December 1927-11 September 2020) was a British musician and organologist.

Family and early life
Montagu was the son of Ewen Montagu, a British judge, writer and Naval intelligence officer, great-grandson of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling and Colonel Albert Goldsmid, and brother of the art historian Jennifer Montagu. His mother, Iris Solomon, was the daughter of the painter Solomon J Solomon. He was educated at Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, Gordonstoun School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Guildhall School of Music, where he studied French horn, percussion and conducting.

Career
Montagu founded his own professional orchestra, the Montagu String Orchestra, which gave many first performances and historically informed performances of baroque and early classical music throughout the 1950s.

During his career as a professional musician he played percussion with most of the major London orchestras (including the Royal Philharmonic with Sir Thomas Beecham) and in most BBC orchestras and many other London and provincial ones. He played percussion with Michael Morrow's early music group Musica Reservata from its first concert in 1960 and pioneered the reconstruction of mediaeval percussion instruments from the evidence of manuscripts and carvings in churches.

In 1970 he was Heath Visiting Professor at Grinnell College, Iowa and director of its Collegium Musicum.

From 1981-1995 he was a lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford and the curator of the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments. After retirement he remained an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1987.

Publications

 * Early Percussion Instruments from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, OUP, London, 1976 ISBN 0-19-323176-4 (with James Blades)
 * Making Early Percussion Instruments, OUP, London 1976 ISBN 0-19-323177-8
 * The World of Medieval and Renaissance Musical Instruments, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1976 ISBN 0-7153-7280-7
 * The World of Baroque and Classical Musical Instruments, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1979 ISBN 0-7153-7593-8
 * The World of Romantic and Modern Musical Instruments, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1981 ISBN 0-7153-7994-1
 * The French Horn, Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, 1990 ISBN 0-7478-0086-3
 * The Flute, Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, 1990 ISBN 0-7478-0085-5
 * Minstrels and Angels: Carvings of Musicians in Medieval English Churches, Fallen Leaf Press, Berkeley, 1998 ISBN 0-914913-40-9 (with Gwen Montagu)
 * Reed Instruments, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 2001 ISBN 0-8108-3938-5
 * Musical Instruments of the Bible, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 2001 ISBN 0-8108-4282-3
 * Timpani and Percussion, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001 ISBN 0-300-09337-3
 * Origins and Development of Musical Instruments, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 2007 ISBN 978-0-8108-5657-8
 * Horns and Trumpets of the World, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2014 ISBN 978-0-8108-8881-4
 * The Shofar, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2015 ISBN 978-1-4422-5027-7
 * Many articles in Early Music, the Galpin Society Journal, and other journals.

Awards
Montagu was awarded the Anthony Baines Prize by the Galpin Society in 2004, the Curt Sachs Award by the American Musical Instrument Society in 2010 "in recognition of a lifetime of achievement as a performer, conductor, scholar, museum curator, university professor, and instrument collector, and for his distinguished publications, outstanding  leadership, and tireless service to the discipline of organology", and the Christopher Monk Award by the Historic Brass Society in 2016.