Edward Joseph Dent

Edward Joseph Dent (* July 16, 1876 in Ribston, Yorkshire, † August 22 1957 in London ) was an English musicologist.

Dent attended Eton College, from 1895, King's College, Cambridge and then studied with Charles Wood and Charles Villiers Stanford. In 1905 he published a monograph on Alessandro Scarlatti. From 1918 to 1926 he lived as a music critic in London, after which he worked as a professor of music at Cambridge.

After the First World War, Dent sat for the International Association of Musicians of the former war opponents. He was the first president, which was founded in 1922 International Society for Contemporary Music, which he directed until 1938 and then again 1945-1947. From 1931 to 1949 he was also President of the International Music Society.

In addition to his work as a music critic, musicologist and educator - to Dent merits acquired by the promotion of opera in the United Kingdom by translating many important opera libretti into English. The opera was also the focus of his scientific interest, where he dealt in particular with the history of opera in England as well as the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ferruccio Busoni.

Writings

• Alessandro Scarlatti, 1905
• Leonardo Leo, 1905-06
• Ensembles and Finales in Eighteenth -century Italian Opera, 1909-10
• Italian Chamber Cantatas, 1910-11
• Italian Opera in the Eighteenth Century, and Its Influence on the Music of the Classical Period, 1912-13
• Mozart 's Operas: A Critical Study, 1913
• The laudi spirituality in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 1916-17
• Music in University Education, 1917
• Hans Pfitzner, 1923
• Terpander, 1926
• The Romantic Spirit in Music, 1932-33
• Ferruccio Busoni, 1933
• Italian Opera in London, 1944-45
• Gioacchino Rossini Antonin, The Heritage of Music, 1951
• The Sixteenth -century madrigal, 1968