Author:George Grove

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George Grove (1820–1900)

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Kt; Engineer and later English author specialized in music, authority on Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn. Secretary of the Society of Arts; first Secretary of the Crystal Palace Company; editor of Macmillan's Magazine from 1868 to 1883; first Director of the Royal College of Music (1882-1894)

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This author wrote articles for A Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DMM by the initials "G."

George Grove

Works

• Syrian Legends:
  • "The Ants' Rock, and the Fisherman Who Thought He Was Wiser Than God" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 6 (1862)
  • "The Grapes of Darâya" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 6 (1862)
• Life of Mozart (1882) (external scan)
• Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (1882) (transcription project)
• Geography (1889) (external scan)
• Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies (1903) (external scan)

As editor

• Macmillan's Magazine (from 1868 to 1883)
• A Dictionary of Music and Musicians in 4 vols. (1878 to 1900)

Works about Grove

• "Death of Sir George Grove," in The Times (1900)
• "Funeral of Sir George Grove," in The Times (1900)
• "Grove, George," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Grove, George," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Grove, Sir George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)