Edward Joseph Dent

Edward Joseph Dent
Born	1876
Died	1957
Residence	16 Rosary Gardens, South Kensington, SW
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1913 last listed elected_AI 1912.04.25

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1912.03.07 proposed by Francis Edwards, seconded by James Edge-Partington

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Edward Joseph Dent, generally known by his initials as E. J. Dent (16 July 1876, Ribston, Yorkshire – 22 August 1957, London), was a British writer on music.[1]
Dent was the son of the landowner and politician John Dent Dent. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge,[2] where he sat the Classical Tripos in 1898. He was elected a Fellow of the college in March 1902 having distinguished himself in music both as researcher and a composer.[3] Dent was Professor of Music at Cambridge University from 1926 to 1941. He was President of the I.S.C.M. from its foundation in 1922 until 1938. He was a governor of Sadler's Wells Opera, and translated many libretti for it. He wrote influential books on Alessandro Scarlatti, Ferruccio Busoni, Handel, English operas and the operas of Mozart.