Roger David Edward Nichols (born 6 April 1939) is an English musicologist, critic, translator and author.
Among his translations are the English versions of the standard biography of Gabriel Fauré by Jean-Michel Nectoux and of Harry Halbreich's study of Arthur Honegger.
[1] He was educated at Harrow, where he read classics, and Worcester College, Oxford, where he studied under Edmund Rubbra.
Among his most substantial translations are the English versions of Jean-Michel Nectoux's Gabriel Fauré: les voix du clair-obscur (1990), published by the Cambridge University Press as Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life (1991),[4] and Harry Halbreich's Arthur Honegger (1992), published by the Amadeus Press under the same title (1999).
[n 2] Among his other broadcasts on Radio 3 was a five-part series on the life and art of Emmanuel Chabrier, with Clive Swift speaking the composer's words.