Dent

Edward Joseph, b. Ribston, England, July, 18, 1876; educator and writer on music; pupil of Wood and Stanford at Cambridge fellow of King’s Coll.; an Univ., ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica; ed. second edition of Grove’s Musical Dictionary; pres. of Intern at’l. Soc. for Contemp. Music; after 1926 prof. of musical science, Cambridge Univ.; author of life of A. Scarlatti; ‘‘A Jesuit at the Opera in 1680’; ‘‘Ttalian Cantatas,” “‘Mozart’s Operas,” ‘‘Foundations of English Opera,” “Busoni,” etc.; has also tr. librettos of Mozart operas into English.