Edward Joseph Dent

Dent at King's College, Cambridge, 1900

Edward Joseph Dent, generally known by his initials as E. J. Dent (16 July 1876, Ribston, Yorkshire – 22 August 1957, London), was a British writer on music.[1]

Life

Dent was the son of the landowner and politician John Dent. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge,[2] where he sat the Classical Tripos in 1898. He was elected a Fellow of the college in March 1902 having distinguished himself in music both as researcher and a composer.[3]

Dent was Professor of Music at Cambridge University from 1926 to 1941. 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. He was a governor of 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 was a Fellow of the British Academy and was awarded honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard Universities. After World War I, Dent sought to bring together the artistic communities of the two countries. After his death the Royal Musical Association instituted the Dent Medal for work in musicology.[4]

Selected publications

  • Alessandro Scarlatti, his life and works
  • Mozart's operas
  • Foundations of English opera
  • Ferruccio Busoni
  • A life of Handel
  • Opera. Penguin, 1940.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Fields of study: Edward Dent, musicologist". www.kings.cam.ac.uk.
  2. ↑ "Dent, Edward Joseph (DNT895EJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ "University intelligence". The Times (36717). London. 17 March 1902. p. 11.
  4. ↑

References

  • Hugh Carey; Edward Joseph Dent; Clive Carey (1979). Duet for Two Voices: An Informal Biography of Edward Dent Compiled from His Letters to Clive Carey. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22312-6.
  • "Archival material relating to Edward Joseph Dent". UK National Archives. Edit this at Wikidata
  • Works by Edward Joseph Dent at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by John Charles Dent at Faded Page (Canada)
  • Works by or about Edward Joseph Dent at Internet Archive
  • texts of Busoni songs, the last of which is an epistle to "Caro Dent"


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