Edward Joseph Dent
Edward Joseph Dent, generally known by his initials as E. J. Dent (16 July 1876, Ribston, Yorkshire – 22 August 1957, London), was a British writer on music.[1]
Life
Dent was the son of the landowner and politician John Dent Dent. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge,[2] where he sat the Classical Tripos in 1898. He was elected a Fellow of the college in March 1902 having distinguished himself in music both as researcher and a composer.[3] Dent was Professor of Music at Cambridge University from 1926 to 1941. He was President of the I.S.C.M. from its foundation in 1922 until 1938. He was a governor of Sadler's Wells Opera, and translated many libretti for it. He wrote influential books on Alessandro Scarlatti, Ferruccio Busoni, Handel, English operas and the operas of Mozart.
Selected publications
- Alessandro Scarlatti, his life and works
- Mozart's operas
- Foundations of English opera
- Ferruccio Busoni
- A life of Handel
- Opera. Penguin, 1940.
Notes
- ↑ http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre/archive-month/march-2013.html
- ↑ "Dent, Edward Joseph (DNT895EJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ "University intelligence". The Times (36717). London. 17 March 1902. p. 11.
References
- Hugh Carey; Edward Joseph Dent; Clive Carey (1979). Duet for Two Voices: An Informal Biography of Edward Dent Compiled from His Letters to Clive Carey. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22312-6.
External links
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- "Archival material relating to Edward Joseph Dent". UK National Archives.
- Works by Edward Joseph Dent at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Edward Joseph Dent at Internet Archive
- texts of Busoni songs, the last of which is an epistle to "Caro Dent"