Gerald Abraham

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.

Career

* Assistant Editor, Radio Times, 1935-39
* Deputy Editor, The Listener, 1939-42
* Director of Gramophone Department, BBC, 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 Calvocoressi), 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 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

References

* Encyclopaedia Judaica
* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
* Who was Who