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Professor 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Publications
- This Modern Stuff, 1933
- Nietzsche, 1933
- Studies in Russian Music, 1935
- Tolstoy, 1935
- Masters of Russian Music (with M. D. 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
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