Arthur Hedley

Arthur Hedley

Arthur Hedley (1905-1969), English musicologist and scholar, biographer of Chopin.

Arthur Hedley was educated at Durham and at the Sorbonne, and he devoted much of his life to the study of the composer Frédéric Chopin and his music. 1947 saw the publication of Hedley's biography of Chopin, as part of The Master Musicians series, and, as a fluent Polish speaker, he was well placed to translate and edit Chopin letters, which had been collected and annotated by Bronislaw Edward Sydow, and which were publish in 1962 as "Selected Correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin".

He was vice-president of the International Chopin Competition in 1949, the centenary of Chopin’s death, and received the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He processed a considerable collection of Chopiniana, and died at Birmingham on 8 November 19, aged 63, [Obituary for Arthur Hedley, "The Musical Times", Vol. 111, No. 1523 (Jan., 1970), p. 81.] and is buried in Lodge Hill Cemetery.

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