British musicologist (1930–2005)
Stanley John Sadie
CBE (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British
musicologist , music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), which was published as the first edition of
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians .
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[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.
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Career
Born in
Wembley , Sadie was educated at
St Paul's School, London , and studied music privately for three years with
Bernard Stevens .
[8] At
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge he read music under
Thurston Dart . Sadie earned
Bachelor of Arts and
Bachelor of Music degrees in 1953, a
Master of Arts degree in 1957, and a
PhD in 1958. His
doctoral dissertation was on mid-eighteenth-century British
chamber music .
[9] After Cambridge, he taught at
Trinity College of Music , London (1957–1965).
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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Sadie died at his home in
Cossington , Somerset, 21 March 2005, of
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
^
Biography Index ,
H. W. Wilson Company ;
ISSN
0006-3053
Vol. 12: September 1979 – August 1982 (1983)
Vol. 30: September 2004 – August 2005 (2005)
Vol. 31 September 2005 – August 2006 (2006)
^
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Sadie is in Vol. 5 of 6),
Macmillan ;
Schirmer
6th ed,
Slonimsky (ed.) (1978);
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
^ Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians,
Nicolas Slonimsky (ed),
Schirmer (1997);
OCLC
36111932
^ Baker's Dictionary of Opera, Laura Kuhn (born 1953), New York:
Schirmer Books (2000);
OCLC
41531658
^
"Stanley Sadie (1930–2005): A Remembrance" , by James P. Cassaro, website:
IAML , 26 March 2015
^
"Stanley Sadie, 74, Writer and Scholar of Music History, Dies" , by
Allan Kozinn ,
The New York Times , 23 March 2005
^
Whittall, Arnold (22 April 2009).
"Nigel Fortune: Musicologist behind a rise in academic standards in Britain" .
The Guardian . Retrieved 15 October 2022 .
^
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
^ British chamber music, 1720–1790 (dissertation), Stanley John Sadie, PhD,
University of Cambridge (1958);
OCLC
11000833 ,
502093985 ,
127124503
^ Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series , Detroit:
Gale Research ;
ISSN
0275-7176
Vol. 9 (1983);
OCLC
873325505
Vol. 115 (2003);
OCLC
659933884
^ Contemporary Authors Detroit:
Gale Research ;
ISSN
0275-7176 ;
ISSN
0010-7468
Vols. 17–20, 1st rev. (1976);
OCLC
655229931
Volume 237 (2006);
OCLC
507344108
^ The International Authors and Writers Who's Who, Adrian Gaster (1919–1989) (ed),
Cambridge, England :
International Biographical Centre ;
ISSN
0143-8263
8th ed. (1977)
9th ed. (1982)
10th ed. (1986)
12th ed. (1991)
11th ed. (1989)
13th ed. 1993– 94 (1993)
^ International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory (in the Classical and Light Classical fields), Adrian Gaster (1919–1989),
Cambridge, England :
International Who's Who in Music ;
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
^
International Who's Who ,
Europa Publications ;
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
^
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 20 volumes, Stanley Sadie (ed.) London:
Macmillan Publishers (1980);
OCLC
5676891
^ Something about the Author , Vol. 14, Detroit:
Gale Research (1978);
OCLC
705262453
^ Who's Who, An Annual Biographical Dictionary ,
St. Martin's Press ;
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)
^ Latham, Alison. "Sadie, Stanley".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/96225 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.) ;
OCLC
4916054867
^ The Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 6th ed., J.V. Yates (ed.),
Darien, CT : Hafner Publishing Co. (1971);
OCLC
1243912
^ Who's Who in Entertainment, 3rd ed., 1998–1999,
Marquis Who's Who (1997);
OCLC
38740408
^ Who's Who in the World ,
Wilmette, Illinois :
Marquis Who's Who ;
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)
^ The Writers Directory
St. Martin's Press ;
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.)
Sources
External links
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