Cecil Gray
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This article is about the Scottish music critic and composer. For the former National Football League offensive tackle and defensive end, see Cecil Gray (American football). For the Trinidadian poet and educator, see Cecil Gray (poet).
Cecil Gray (1895–1951) was a Scottish music critic and composer. He published books on the composers Jean Sibelius, Peter Warlock and Carlo Gesualdo, the last of these co-authored by the same Warlock; also a history of music, collections of essays on music, a play about Gilles de Rais and an autobiography.
He also wrote three operas: Deirdre (performed in part on the BBC), The Temptation of St Anthony (after Flaubert) and The Trojan Women.
He married the daughter of Natalia Brasova.
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