Alexander Munro

Alexander Munro
(fl Edinburgh, 1732–40). Scottish composer. Hawkins gives his first name as Alexander and states that he was ‘a native of Scotland’.

On internal evidence of his Recueil des meilleurs airs ecossois … avec plusieurs divisions et variations (Paris, 1732), he was born about 1700, probably studied at a university on the Continent, was a gifted amateur, was closely in touch with fashionable Edinburgh in the 1720s, and was familiar with Paris, but not resident there to check his printer's proofs. All these things point to his identity with Alexander Monro (1697–1767), professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh from 1720.