Richard D. P. Jones

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Richard Douglas P. Jones is a British musicologist and editor, best known as a Bach scholar. He studied at the University of Oxford and has taught at Cardiff University and Sheffield University.

Jones edited several important Bach works. He produced the Urtext edition of Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019, published by Oxford University Press in 1993. He also prepared Bach keyboard editions, Clavierübung I and The Well-Tempered Clavier, for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM); the Well-Tempered Clavier edition earned the Music Retailers Association’s Standard Publication Award in 1994. In 1997 he was named editor of piano examination pieces for ABRSM.

He translated Alfred Dürr’s standard Bach cantatas into English, making this key German work accessible to English readers. Jones is the author of The Creative Development of J. S. Bach, a two-volume study published by Oxford University Press in 2007 and 2013. Reviews praised the work for its in-depth, year-by-year look at Bach’s creativity and described it as a valuable starting point for understanding Bach’s music.

Jones is recognized as a leading English musicologist and Bach scholar.