David Lewiston

David Sidney George Lewiston (11 May 1929 – 29 May 2017) was a London-born collector of the world's traditional music. He is best known for his recordings initially released on LP on the Explorer Series of Nonesuch Records beginning in 1967. He earned a graduate degree in 1953 from Trinity College of Music in London, where he studied piano, conducting, orchestration, harmony, and counterpoint. He later studied composition in New York City with Thomas de Hartmann, who had been a devotee of G.