Gerald Abraham

For the American football player, see Gerald Abraham (American football).

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

References

• Encyclopaedia Judaica
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Who was Who