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SIR GEORGE GROVE (182o-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 638 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:GEORGE See also:GROVE (182o-1900)  , See also:English writer on See also:music, was See also:born at Clapham on the 13th of See also:August 1820 . He was articled to a See also:civil engineer, and worked for two years in a factory near See also:Glasgow . In 1841 and 1845 he was employed in the See also:West Indies, erecting lighthouses in See also:Jamaica and Bermuda . In 1849 he became secretary to the Society of Arts, and in 1852 to the Crystal See also:Palace . In this capacity his natural love of music and See also:enthusiasm for the See also:art found a splendid opening, and he threw all the See also:weight of his See also:influence into the task of promoting the best music of all See also:schools in connexion with the weekly and daily concerts at See also:Sydenham, which had a See also:long and See also:honourable career under the direction of Mr (afterwards See also:Sir) August Manns . Without Sir See also:George See also:Grove that eminent conductor would hardly have succeeded in doing what he did to encourage See also:young composers and to educate the See also:British public in music . Grove's analyses of the See also:Beethoven symphonies, and the other See also:works presented at the concerts, set the See also:pattern of what such things should be; and it was as a result of these, and of the fact that he was editor of See also:Macmillan's See also:Magazine from 1868 to 1883, that the See also:scheme of bis famous See also:Dictionary of Music and Musicians, published from 1878 to 1889 (new edition, edited by J . A . See also:Fuller See also:Maitland, 1904-1907), was conceived and executed . His own articles in that See also:work on Beethoven, Mendelssohn and See also:Schubert are monuments of a See also:special See also:kind of learning, and that the See also:rest of the See also:book is a little thrown out of See also:balance owing to their See also:great length is hardly to be regretted . Long before this he had contributed to the Dictionary of the See also:Bible, and had promoted the See also:foundation of the See also:Palestine Exploration Fund . On a See also:journey to See also:Vienna, undertaken in the See also:company of his lifelong friend, Sir See also:Arthur See also:Sullivan, the important See also:discovery of a large number of compositions by Schubert was made, including the music to Rosamunde .

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College of Music was founded in 1882 he was appointed its first director, receiving the See also:honour of See also:knighthood . He brought the new institution into See also:line with the most useful See also:European conservatoriums . On the completion of the new buildings in 1894 he resigned the directorship, but retained an active See also:interest in the institution to the end of his See also:life . He died at Sydenham on the 28th of May 190o . His life, a most interesting one, was written by Mr See also:Charles See also:Graves . (J . A . F .

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