He published several books on Leoš Janáček, including an authoritative and largely definitive two-volume biography.
Tyrrell was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), he studied at the universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Brno.
[4] Tyrrell started his career working in an editorial capacity at The Musical Times.
He was a Lecturer in Music at the University of Nottingham (1976), becoming Reader in Opera Studies (1987) and Professor (1996).
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