Gerald Abraham
Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, was an English-Jewish 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, The Monthly Musical Record, 1945–60
- Editor, Music of the Masters
- General Editor: The History of Music in Sound
- 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, 1961–68
Publications
- This Modern Stuff, 1933
- Nietzsche, 1933
- Studies in Russian Music, 1935
- Tolstoy, 1935
- Masters of Russian Music, 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 Master Musicians: Mussorgsky, 1974
- The Concise Oxford History of Music, 1979
- Essays on Russian and East European Music, 1984
- New Oxford History of Music:
- * Vol. III, 1960
- * Vol. IV, 1968
- * Vol. VIII, 1982
- * Vol. VI, 1985
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