George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780333948040
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Biography: general; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Composers & musicians; Theory of music & musicology; c 1800 to c 1900; Biography & Autobiography; Music/Songbooks; Biography/Autobiography; London, Greater London; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; History & Criticism - By Composer; Individual Composer & Musician; Theater - General; Grove, George; Music / History & Criticism; History & Criticism - General; 1820-1900; Criticism and interpretation; Grove, George,; Sir,
Description: Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Though George Grove, 1820-1900, was never a professional musician, 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. This book surveys his varied activities as engineer, biblical scholar, administrator, educationalist, and writer on music, and assesses the qualities that led him to play a major role in the cultural life of London in the period 1850-1900.