Hull, Arthur Eaglefield
Hull, Arthur Eaglefield
Hull, Arthur Eaglefield, English writer on music; b. Market Harborough, March 10, 1876; d. (suicide) London, Nov. 4, 1928. He was a student of Matthay and C. Pearce. In 1912 he became ed. of the Monthly Musical Record.In 1918 he organized the British Music Soc. He pub, the pioneering Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (1924), a vol. flawed by many egregious errors and misconceptions; A. Einstein publ, a corrected German tr. (1926). Hull’s Music: Classical, Romantic and Modern (1927) proved to be a pasticcio of borrowings from various English and American writers. When he was exposed, the book was withdrawn by the publisher in 1928 and Hull threw himself under a train at the Huddersfield Railway Station, dying a few weeks later. He also publ. Organ Playing, Its Technique and Expression (1911); Modern Harmony: Its Explanation and Application (1914; 3rd ed., 1923); The Sonata in Music (1916); Scriabin (1916); Modern Musical Styles (1916); Design or Construction in Music (1917); Cyril Scott (1918).
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