Stanley Sadie

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Stanley John Sadie

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), which was published as the first edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Along with Thurston Dart, Nigel Fortune and Oliver Neighbour he was one of Britain's leading musicologists of the post-World War II generation.[7]

Career

Born in

Trinity College of Music, London (1957–1965).[10][11][12]

Sadie then turned to music journalism, becoming music critic for The Times (1964–1981), and contributing reviews to the Financial Times after 1981, when he had to leave his position and The Times because of his commitments to the Grove and other scholarly work. He was editor of The Musical Times from 1967 until 1987.[13][14][15]

From 1970 Sadie was editor of what was planned to be the sixth edition of the

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980). Sadie oversaw major changes to the dictionary, which grew from nine volumes to twenty, and was published as The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (New Grove), and is now referred to as the first edition under that name. He was also an important force behind the second edition of New Grove (2001), which grew further to 29 volumes. Sadie also oversaw a major expansion of the Grove franchise, editing the one-volume Grove Concise Dictionary of Music (1988), and several spinoff dictionaries, such as the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (three volumes, 1984), the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, (with H. Wiley Hitchcock, four volumes, 1986), and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (four volumes, 1992). He also edited composer biographies based on the entries in Grove.[16][17]

Outside his work on the Grove dictionaries, Sadie edited the

Man and Music volumes accompanying a television series (1989–1993).[18] He was also an accomplished bassoonist.[19][20][21][22]

Sadie died at his home in

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(Motor Neurone disease), which had been diagnosed only a few weeks earlier.

Sadie married twice. His first wife, Adèle Sadie (née Bloom; 1931–1978) – whom he married in 1953 in London, and with whom he had two sons and a daughter – died in 1978. Sadie married Julie Anne Sadie (née Vertrees; born 1948), also a musicologist, in 1978. They had a son and a daughter.

Honours

In 1982, Sadie was appointed CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire). He received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Leicester in 1982, and was elected honorary fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1994 and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 2005, Sadie became a Handel Prize laureate.

Professional affiliations

References

  1. ISSN 0006-3053

        Vol. 12: September 1979 – August 1982 (1983)
        Vol. 30: September 2004 – August 2005 (2005)
        Vol. 31 September 2005 – August 2006 (2006)
  2. Schirmer

        6th ed,
    OCLC 4426869

        7th ed, Slonimsky (ed.) (1984);
    OCLC 10574930

        8th ed, Slonimsky (ed.) (1992);
    OCLC 24246972

        9th ed, Laura Diane Kuhn (ed.) (born 1953) (2001);
    OCLC 44972043
  3. OCLC 36111932
  4. OCLC 41531658
  5. ^ "Stanley Sadie (1930–2005): A Remembrance", by James P. Cassaro, website: IAML, 26 March 2015
  6. ^ "Stanley Sadie, 74, Writer and Scholar of Music History, Dies", by Allan Kozinn, The New York Times, 23 March 2005
  7. ^ Whittall, Arnold (22 April 2009). "Nigel Fortune: Musicologist behind a rise in academic standards in Britain". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  8. ^ Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
  9. OCLC 11000833, 502093985, 127124503
  10. ISSN 0275-7176

        Vol. 9 (1983);
    OCLC 873325505

        Vol. 115 (2003);
    OCLC 659933884
  11. ISSN 0010-7468

        Vols. 17–20, 1st rev. (1976);
    OCLC 655229931

        Volume 237 (2006);
    OCLC 507344108
  12. ISSN 0143-8263

        8th ed. (1977)
        9th ed. (1982)
        10th ed. (1986)
        12th ed. (1991)
        11th ed. (1989)
        13th ed. 1993– 94 (1993)
  13. ISSN 0307-2894

        6th ed. (1972);
    OCLC 9991844

        9th ed. (1980);
    OCLC 7519641

        12th ed. 1990–1991 (1990);
    OCLC 28065697

            17th ed. 2000–2001 (2000);
    OCLC 610394664
  14. ISSN 0074-9613

        42nd ed., 1978 (1978);
    OCLC 440743278

        43rd ed., 1979–80 (1979);
    OCLC 440743632

        44th ed., 1980–81 (1980);
    OCLC 440743737

        45th ed., 1981–82 (1981);
    OCLC 440743813

        46th ed., 1982–83 (1982);
    OCLC 440744015

        47th ed., 1983–84 (1983);
    OCLC 441457144

        53rd ed., 1989–90 (1989);
    OCLC 20250797

        55th ed., 1991–92 (1991);
    OCLC 24322591

        57th ed., 1993–94 (1993);
    OCLC 28473075

        61st ed., 1997–98 (1997);
    OCLC 37363047

        62nd ed., 1998–99 (1998);
    OCLC 39517239

        63rd ed., 2000 (1999);
    OCLC 59440072

        64th ed., 2000–01 (2000);
    OCLC 43788856

        65th ed., 2002 (2001);
    OCLC 59550486

        66th ed., 2003 (2002);
    OCLC 50197639

        67th ed., 2004 (2003);
    OCLC 59342773

        68th ed., 2005 (2004);
    OCLC 59262688
  15. OCLC 5676891
  16. OCLC 705262453
  17. ISSN 0083-937X

        126th Year, 1974–1975 (1974)
        134th Year, 1982–1983 (1982)
        135th Year, 1983–1984 (1983)
        137th Year, 1985–1986 (1985)
        140th Year, 1988 (1988)
        142nd Year, 1990 (1990)
        144th Year, 1992 (1992)
        146th Year, 1994 (1994)
        150th Year, 1998 (1998)
        151st Year, 1999 (1999)
        152nd Year, 2000 (2000)
        153rd Year, 2001 2001)
        154th Year, 2002 2002)
        155th Year, 2003 (2003)
        156th Year, 2004 (2004)
        157th Year, 2005 (2005)
  18. OCLC 4916054867
  19. OCLC 1243912
  20. OCLC 38740408
  21. ISSN 0083-9825

        3rd ed., 1976–1977 (1976)
        7th ed., 1984–1985 (1984)
        8th ed., 1987–1988 (1986)
        9th ed., 1989–1990 (1988)
        10th ed., 1991–1992 (1990)
        11th ed., 1993–1994 (1992)
        12th ed., 1995–1996 (1994)
        13th ed., 1996–1997 (1995)
        14th ed., 1997 (1996)
        15th ed., 1998 (1997)
        16th ed., 1999 (1999)
        17th ed., 2000 (1999)
        18th ed., 2001 (2000)
        19th ed., 2002 (2001)
  22. ISSN 0084-2699

        3rd ed., 1976–1978
        4th ed., 1980–1982
        5th ed., 1982–1984 (1981)
        6th ed., 1984–1986 (1983)
        7th ed., 1986–1988 (1986)
        8th ed., 1988–1990 (1988)
        9th ed., 1990–1992 (1990)
        10th ed., 1992–1994 (1991)
        11th ed., 1994–1996 (1994)
        12th ed., 1996–1998 (1996)
        13th ed., 1998–2000 (1997)
        14th ed., 1999 (1999)
        15th ed., 2000 (2000)
        16th ed., 2001 (2001)
        17th ed., 2002 (2002)
        18th ed., 2003 (2003)
        19th ed., 2004 (2003)
        20th ed., 2005 (2004)
        21st ed., 2006 (2005)
        22nd ed., 2007 (2006)
        23rd ed., 2008 (2007) (obituaries at end of vol.)

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