Robert Edward Layton (2 May 1930 – 9 November 2020) was an English musicologist and music critic.
Between 1949 and 1953 Layton studied at Worcester College, Oxford under Edmund Rubbra and Egon Wellesz.
[1] He then went to Sweden, where he learned the language and studied with Carl-Allan Moberg at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm (1953–1955).
He wrote extensively on Franz Berwald – his book Franz Berwald was first published in Swedish in 1956, and in English three years later – and published books on Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius.
[2][4] Despite the long tradition of including fictitious entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias, the editor of Grove, Stanley Sadie, was not amused and the article was removed in the second edition.