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Edward J. Dent - A Life of Words and Music (Hardcover)
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Edward J. Dent - A Life of Words and Music (Hardcover)
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This first full biography of Edward J. Dent (1876-1957), Cambridge
Professor of Music and foremost musicologist, tells the story of a
remarkable man who played a crucial role in the formation of
twentieth-century culture and cultural institutions. Operating at
both personal and international levels, Dent knew and quietly
influenced musicians, poets, artists, writers, politicians,
theatrical producers and designers, including Busoni, E.M. Forster,
Sassoon and Maynard Keynes. The book covers not only his pioneering
music scholarship and cultural activities but also his personal
crusades on behalf of music and opera, gays, refugees and the
culturally destitute. Drawn from a wide variety of unpublished
sources, from behind Dent's carefully constructed public persona of
a cosmopolitan gentleman scholar the picture emerges of a more
complex and fascinating human being: a lifelong pacifist and
agnostic; a scion of the upper classes who voted Labour; 'the
kindest heart and the wickedest tongue in Cambridge', who always
helped friends in need; a natural rebel and iconoclast; an English
internationalist. His seminal books and articles remain fresh and
vital and his writing hugely entertaining, while his ideas on the
importance of the arts in everyday life are as relevant as ever.
Dent's fundamental belief in 'training the imagination' and in
personal friendships, along with his lifelong quest to 'understand
all music', kept music and the arts alive through the most dire
periods in the last century and into our own.
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