Gerald Abraham
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Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, CBE
, FBA (9 March 1904 – 18 March 1988) was an English
musicologist; he was President of the Royal Musical Association
, 1970-74.
CBE
CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...
, FBA (9 March 1904 – 18 March 1988) was an English
English people
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musicologist; he was President of the Royal Musical Association
Royal Musical Association
The Royal Musical Association is a British scholarly society and charity. Founded in 1874, the Association claims to be the second oldest musicological society in the world, after that of the Netherlands...
, 1970-74.
Career
- Assistant Editor, Radio TimesRadio TimesRadio Times is a UK weekly television and radio programme listings magazine, owned by the BBC. It has been published since 1923 by BBC Magazines, which also provides an on-line listings service under the same title...
, 1935–39 - Deputy Editor, The Listener, 1939–42
- Director of Gramophone Department, BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, 1942–47 - James and Constance Alsop Professor of Music, Liverpool University, 1947–62
- BBC Assistant Controller of Music, 1962–67
- Music Critic, The Daily Telegraph, 1967–68
- Ernest Bloch Professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley, 1968–69
Other work
- Chairman, Music Section of the Critics' Circle, 1944–46
- Editor, Monthly Musical Record, 1945–60
- Editor, Music of the Masters (series of books)
- General Editor: The History of Music in Sound (gramophone records and handbooks)
- General Editor: New Oxford History of Music
- Chairman, Early English Church Music Committee, 1970–80
- Member, Editorial Committee, Musica Britannica
- President, International Society for Music Education, 1958–61
- Deputy Chairman. Haydn Institute (Cologne), 1961–68
Publications
- This Modern Stuff, 1933
- Nietzsche, 1933
- Studies in Russian Music, 1935
- Tolstoy, 1935
- Masters of Russian Music (with Michel Dimitri CalvocoressiMichel Dimitri CalvocoressiMichel Dimitri Calvocoressi was a music writer and music critic of Greek descent....
), 1936 - Dostoevsky, 1936
- A Hundred Years of Music, 1938
- On Russian Music, 1939
- Chopin's Musical Style, 1939
- Beethoven's Second-Period Quartets, 1942
- Eight Soviet Composers, 1943
- Tchaikovsky, 1944
- Rimsky-Korsakov, 1945
- Design in Music, 1949
- Slavonic and Romantic Music, 1968
- The Tradition of Western Music, 1974
- The Master Musicians: Mussorgsky (with Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi), 1974
- The Concise Oxford History of Music, 1979
- Essays on Russian and East European Music, 1984
- New Oxford History of Music:
- Vol. III (Ars Nova and the Renaissance), 1960
- Vol. IV (The Age of Humanism), 1968
- Vol. VIII (The Age of Beethoven), 1982
- Vol. VI (Concert Music: 1630-1750), 1985