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George Grove
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'''Sir George Grove''' (
August 13,
1820 –
May 28,
1900) was an
England English writer on
music, immortalised in the title of ''
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians''.
He was born in
Clapham, and studied to be a
civil engineer, working for two years in a factory near
Glasgow. In 1841 and 1845 he was employed in the
West Indies, erecting
lighthouses in
Jamaica and
Bermuda. In
1849 he became secretary to the Society of Arts, and in 1852 to
the Crystal Palace. In this capacity his natural love of music and enthusiasm for the art found a splendid opening, and he threw all the weight of his influence into the task of promoting the best music of all kinds in connection with the weekly and daily concerts at
Sydenham, which had a long and honourable career under the direction of
orchestral conductor conductor August Manns.
Without Sir George Grove, Manns would hardly have succeeded in encouraging young composers and educating the British public about music. Grove's
musical analysis analyses of the
Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven symphonies, and the other works presented at the concerts, set the pattern of what such things should be; and it was as a result of these, and of the fact that he was editor of ''
Macmillan's Magazine'' from 1868 to 1883, that the scheme of his famous ''Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', published from 1878 to 1880, was conceived and executed. His own articles on Beethoven,
Felix Mendelssohn Mendelssohn and
Franz Schubert Schubert are monuments of a special kind of learning, even though the rest of the book is a little thrown out of balance owing to their great length.
Long before this, Grove had contributed to the ''Dictionary of the Bible'', and had promoted the foundation of the
Palestine Exploration Fund. On a journey to
Vienna, undertaken in the company of his lifelong friend,
Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Sullivan, the important discovery of a large number of compositions by Schubert was made, including the music to ''
Rosamunde''. When the
Royal College of Music was founded in 1882, he was appointed its first director, receiving a
knighthood. He brought the new institution into line with the most useful
Europe European conservatoriums. On the completion of the new buildings in 1894, he resigned the directorship, but retained an active interest in the institution to the end of his life. He died at
Sydenham.
Reference
His
biography was written by
Charles Graves.
External link
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Wikiquote – Quotes by and about Sir George Grove
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Category:1820 births Grove, George
Category:1900 deaths Grove, George
Category:British book editors Grove, George
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