Jonathan Del Mar (born 7 January 1951)[1] is a British music editor and conductor.
He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and the Royal College of Music in London.
This edition has been used by conductors of the standing of Claudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle, Philippe Herreweghe, Osmo Vänskä and David Zinman and orchestras such as the Hanover Band, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
[4] There were four recordings of the symphony prior to the publication of the new edition, with the conductors using the Breitkopf edition with the corrections as they were available to them; Roy Goodman was the first conductor using corrections by Del Mar, followed by Sir Charles Mackerras in 1991, Sir John Eliot Gardiner in 1992, and Claudio Abbado in 1996.
[3] Other works he studied that resulted in new scores being published were the cello sonatas (2004), string quartets up to Op.