Dent, Edward Joseph, 1876-1957 (Professor of Music)
Biography
Edward Joseph Dent (1876-1957), musicologist, was born at Ribston Hall, Wetherby, Yorkshire, on 26 July 1876. He attended Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow, 1902-1908 and from 1926 until his death. Dent was Professor of Music at the university, 1926-1941. He published pioneering studies in English on Alessandro Scarlatti, Ferruccio Busoni, the Mozart operas, and the development of English opera. He was also a founder of the International Society for Contemporary Music and, from 1938, its Honorary Life President. Dent died in London on 22 August 1957.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence from E.J. Dent to W. Hill, 23 July 1910-28 Jan. 1918
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Edward Dent: Letters to him
Edward Joseph Dent: Letter to F.T. Arnold, 1925
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Letters from Edward Dent (London) to Siegfried Sassoon expressing thanks for poems, is Sassoon coming to the Prague Festival?, 23 June 1923-7 Apr. 1925 (27 Jun 1923; 7 April 1925)
A collection of 1094 letters, postcards and other items known as 'Sassoon's residual correspondence' although it does also include a number of items addressed to other persons particularly to his wife, Hester, and his mother, Theresa Thornycroft.
University Publisher: Correspondence with Dent, E.J., 1936 - 1946
10 carbon typed letters.
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