Sir George Grove, CB

Order of the Bath

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 (13 August 1820 – 28 May 1900) was an English writer on music, known as the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Grove was trained as a civil engineer

Civil engineer

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, and successful in that profession, but his love of music drew him into musical administration. When responsible for the regular orchestral concerts at the Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace

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, he wrote a series of programme notes from which eventually grew his musical dictionary.