Gerald Abraham’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro English musicologist
A.K.A. Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham
Was Musicologist 
From England 
United Kingdom 
Type Academia 
Music 
Gender male
Birth 9 March 1904, Newport, Newport, Isle of Wight, South East England
Death 18 March 1988, Midhurst, Chichester, West Sussex, South East England
(aged 84 years)
Star sign Pisces

Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, CBE, FBA (9 March 1904 – 18 March 1988) was an English musicologist; he was President of the Royal Musical Association, 1970–74.

Career

  • Assistant Editor, Radio Times, 1935–39
  • Deputy Editor, The Listener, 1939–42
  • Director of Gramophone Department, BBC, 1942–47
  • James and Constance Alsop Professor of Music, Liverpool University, 1947–62
  • BBC Assistant Controller of Music, 1962–67
  • Music Critic, The Daily Telegraph, 1967–68
  • Ernest Bloch Professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley, 1968–69

Other work

  • Chairman, Music Section of the Critics’ Circle, 1944–46
  • Editor, Monthly Musical Record, 1945–60
  • Editor, Music of the Masters (series of books)
  • General Editor: The History of Music in Sound (gramophone records and handbooks)
  • General Editor: New Oxford History of Music
  • Chairman, Early English Church Music Committee, 1970–80
  • Member, Editorial Committee, Musica Britannica
  • President, International Society for Music Education, 1958–61
  • Deputy Chairman. Haydn Institute (Cologne), 1961–68

Publications

  • This Modern Stuff, 1933
  • Nietzsche, 1933
  • Studies in Russian Music, 1935
  • Tolstoy, 1935
  • Masters of Russian Music (with Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi), 1936
  • Dostoevsky, 1936
  • A Hundred Years of Music, 1938
  • On Russian Music, 1939
  • Chopin’s Musical Style, 1939
  • Beethoven’s Second-Period Quartets, 1942
  • Eight Soviet Composers, 1943
  • Tchaikovsky, 1944
  • Rimsky-Korsakov, 1945
  • Design in Music, 1949
  • Slavonic and Romantic Music, 1968
  • The Tradition of Western Music, 1974
  • The Master Musicians: Mussorgsky (with Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi), 1974
  • The Concise Oxford History of Music, 1979
  • Essays on Russian and East European Music, 1984
  • New Oxford History of Music:
    • Vol. III (Ars Nova and the Renaissance), 1960
    • Vol. IV (The Age of Humanism), 1968
    • Vol. VIII (The Age of Beethoven), 1982
    • Vol. VI (Concert Music: 1630-1750), 1985
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