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Dent at King's College, Cambridge , 1900
Edward Joseph Dent FBA Edward J. Dent , was an English musicologist, teacher, translator and critic . A leading figure of musicology and music criticism, Dent was Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge between 1926 and 1941.[2]
Dent was born in Ribston , Yorkshire , the son of the landowner and politician John Dent . He was educated at Bilston Grange , and Eton where he was a music student of Charles Harford Lloyd .[3] King's College, Cambridge in 1895, graduating B.A. in 1898 in the Classical Tripos, Mus.B. 1899 having studied under Charles Wood and Charles Villiers Stanford , and M.A. 1902.[3] [4] Fellow of his college in March 1902 having distinguished himself in music both as researcher and a composer.[5]
Dent was Professor of Music at Cambridge University from 1926 to 1941, where his students included Arthur Bliss , Arnold Cooke and Cecil Armstrong Gibbs . He was President of the I.S.C.M. from its foundation in 1922 until 1938 and was President of the International Music Society between 1931 and 1949.[6] Sadler's Wells Opera , and translated many libretti for it. He wrote influential books on Alessandro Scarlatti , Ferruccio Busoni , Handel , English operas and the operas of Mozart .
He died in London , aged 81.
The music writer and critic Arthur Jacobs commended Dent's opera translations, which "at their best, whether in colloquial or lofty style (The Barber of Seville The Trojans [7]
The character Philip Herriton in E. M. Forster 's novel Where Angels Fear to Tread [8] Clive Carey was another friend, and the two exchanged over 400 letters over many years. The "informal biography" Duet for Two Voices by Hugh Carey was published in 1979, based on the letters.[9] [10]
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^ a b Scaife, Nigel. "Dent, Edward Joseph (1876–1957)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/32787 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Dent, Edward Joseph (DNT895EJ)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ "University intelligence". The Times . No. 36717. London. 17 March 1902. p. 11.
^ Fauser, AnneGret. 'The Scholar behind the Medal: Edward J. Dent (1876-1957) and the Politics of Music History' , in Journal of the Royal Musical Association Vol. 139, No. 2 (2014), pp. 235-260
^ Arthur Jacobs. A critic's half-century. Opera
^ Amos, William. The Originals: Who's Really Who in Fiction
^ Carey, Hugh. Duet for Two Voices (1979)
^ Arrandale, Karen. Edward J. Dent: A Life of Words and Music (2023)
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