Edward Dent

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Edward Dent (1900)

Edward Joseph Dent (born July 16, 1876 in Ribston Hall , Wetherby , Yorkshire , † August 22, 1957 in London ) was an English musicologist and critic.

Life

Edward Dent was born in 1876 to the lawyer and liberal politician John Dent. His father was a former MP for the House of Commons . Edward Dent attended Eton College (teaching, inter alia, with Charles Harford Lloyd ), from 1895 the King's College in Cambridge (MusB 1899), where he studied with Charles Wood and Charles Villiers Stanford .

In 1902 he became a fellow at King's College, where he taught music history as well as harmony, counterpoint and composition. In 1905 he published a monograph on Alessandro Scarlatti . From 1918 to 1926 he lived as a music critic in London, after which he worked as a music professor in Cambridge, succeeding Charles Wood.

After the First World War Dent campaigned for the international connection of the musicians of the former war opponents. He was the first president of the International Society for Contemporary Music ISCM , founded in 1922 , which he directed until 1938 and then again between 1945 and 1947. In this capacity Dent Ernst Krenek is said to have tried to thwart performances of “everything that was connected with Schönberg or twelve-tone music”, as he hated this direction. From 1928 to 1935 he was chairman of the Royal Music Association and from 1931 to 1949 the president of the International Musicological Society .

In addition to his work as a music critic, musicologist and educator, Dent made a contribution to promoting opera in Great Britain by translating numerous libretti from major operas into English. Opera was also the focus of his academic interest, with particular attention to the history of opera in England as well as the operatic works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ferruccio Busoni .

Awards

  • Honorary doctorates in music from the Universities of Oxford (1932), Harvard (1936) and Cambridge (1937)
  • Honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music ISCM (1948)
  • Honorary President of the International Musicological Society (1949)
  • UK Fellow of the British Academy (1953)
  • Honorary member of the Georg Friedrich Handel Society (1955)

Fonts

  • Alessandro Scarlatti. 1905.
  • Leonardo Leo. 1905-1906.
  • Ensembles and Finales in Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera. 1909-1910.
  • Italian Chamber Cantatas. 1910-1911.
  • Italian Opera in the Eighteenth Century, and its Influence on the Music of the Classical Period. 1912-1913.
  • Mozart's operas. A critical study. 1913.
  • The Laudi Spirituali in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 1916-1917.
  • Music in University Education. 1917.
  • Hans Pfitzner. 1923.
  • Terpander. 1926.
  • Foundations of English Opera. A Study of Musical Drama in England during the Seventeenth Century. 1928.
  • The Romantic Spirit in Music. 1932-1933.
  • Ferruccio Busoni. 1933.
  • Italian Opera in London. 1944-1945.
  • A Theater for Everybody. The Story of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells. 1945.
  • Gioacchino Antonin Rossini, The Heritage of Music. 1951.
  • The sixteenth-century madrigal. 1968.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Krenek: In the Breath of Time. Memories of the modern. Vienna 2012, p. 1116
  2. ^ ISCM Honorary Members
personal data
SURNAME Dent, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dent, Edward Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English musicologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Ribston Hall , Wetherby , Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1957
Place of death London