Gray, Cecil
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Gray, Cecil (
b Edinburgh, 1895;
d Worthing, 1951). Scot. composer and critic. Settled in London 1915. Joint ed. with Philip Heseltine of periodical
The Sackbut. Mus. critic
Nation and Athenaeum 1925–30,
Daily Telegraph 1928–32,
Manchester Guardian 1932. Wrote 3 operas to his own libs.:
Deirdre,
Temptation of St Anthony, and
The Trojan Women. Wrote lib. on Gesualdo for opera by Walton, but no mus. was comp. His reputation rests on his books, which incl.
A Survey of Contemporary Music (1924),
Carlo Gesualdo,
Musician and Murderer (with P. Heseltine) (1926),
History of Music (1928),
Sibelius (1931),
Peter Warlock (1934),
Predicaments (1936), and
Contingencies (1947).
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