Though George Grove 1820-1900 was never a professional musician - neither performer, composer nor teacher - his is one of the most familiar names in music: as founder of the great Dictionary of Music and Musicians that bears his name and first director of the Royal College of Music. Yet, for most of his life Grove's energies and achievements were recognized in quite other fields: trained as a civil engineer, he became known as a distinguished administrator (as secretary of the Royal Society of Arts, and secretary of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham), as a noted biblical scholar and founder of the Palestine Exploration Fund, as editor of the widely influential Macmillan's Magazine, and as a very familiar figure on the London cultural scene.
This book surveys Grove's achievements in the round, and the path that led to his musical eminence. Incorporating new research and with supporting documentation and illustration, it throws new light on the newly emerging culture of classical music in the 19th century, with its attendant need for information, to which Grove responded with vision.
Preface and acknowledgements
PART 1: GROVE'S WORLD
Introduction: The Many Interests of a Great Victorian; M.Musgrave
Grove the Man: Background, Temperament and Ambition; C.Clarke & M.Musgrave
Describing and Evaluating: Grove on Technology, Geography, Exploration and Literature; M.Musgrave
PART 2: THE SCHOLAR AND WRITER
'The Other Dictionary': Grove's Work in Editing Dr Smith's Dictionary of the Bible; P.M.Young
The Making of a Scholar: Grove's Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert; M.Musgrave
Not just 'G': Towards a History of the Programme Note; C.Bashford
PART 3: AT MACMILLAN
Grove as Editor of Macmillan's Magazine 1868-1883; R.T.Van Arsdel
Roots of a Tradition: The First Dictionary of Music and Musicians; L.Langley
PART 4: THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC
Grove's Role in the Founding of the RCM; D.Wright
Grove as First Director of the RCM; J.Ritterman
The Documentary Legacy: Grove's Library and Papers at the RCM; P.Horton
Chronology
Appendicies
Bibliography
Index
MICHAEL MUSGRAVE is Emeritus Professor of Music at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, and lives in New York City. First trained as a pianist and organist at the Royal College of Music, of which he is Visiting Research Fellow, the focus of his scholarly work is German and English music of the 19th Century, on which he has written, lectured and broadcast widely.
Description
Though George Grove 1820-1900 was never a professional musician - neither performer, composer nor teacher - his is one of the most familiar names in music: as founder of the great Dictionary of Music and Musicians that bears his name and first director of the Royal College of Music. Yet, for most of his life Grove's energies and achievements were recognized in quite other fields: trained as a civil engineer, he became known as a distinguished administrator (as secretary of the Royal Society of Arts, and secretary of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham), as a noted biblical scholar and founder of the Palestine Exploration Fund, as editor of the widely influential Macmillan's Magazine, and as a very familiar figure on the London cultural scene.
This book surveys Grove's achievements in the round, and the path that led to his musical eminence. Incorporating new research and with supporting documentation and illustration, it throws new light on the newly emerging culture of classical music in the 19th century, with its attendant need for information, to which Grove responded with vision.
Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
PART 1: GROVE'S WORLD
Introduction: The Many Interests of a Great Victorian; M.Musgrave
Grove the Man: Background, Temperament and Ambition; C.Clarke & M.Musgrave
Describing and Evaluating: Grove on Technology, Geography, Exploration and Literature; M.Musgrave
PART 2: THE SCHOLAR AND WRITER
'The Other Dictionary': Grove's Work in Editing Dr Smith's Dictionary of the Bible; P.M.Young
The Making of a Scholar: Grove's Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert; M.Musgrave
Not just 'G': Towards a History of the Programme Note; C.Bashford
PART 3: AT MACMILLAN
Grove as Editor of Macmillan's Magazine 1868-1883; R.T.Van Arsdel
Roots of a Tradition: The First Dictionary of Music and Musicians; L.Langley
PART 4: THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC
Grove's Role in the Founding of the RCM; D.Wright
Grove as First Director of the RCM; J.Ritterman
The Documentary Legacy: Grove's Library and Papers at the RCM; P.Horton
Chronology
Appendicies
Bibliography
Index
Authors
MICHAEL MUSGRAVE is Emeritus Professor of Music at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, and lives in New York City. First trained as a pianist and organist at the Royal College of Music, of which he is Visiting Research Fellow, the focus of his scholarly work is German and English music of the 19th Century, on which he has written, lectured and broadcast widely.
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