Stanley John Sadie CBE (/ˈseɪdi/; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was a British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), which was published as the first edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Along with Thurston Dart, Nigel Fortune and Oliver Neighbour he was one of Britain's leading musicologists of the post-World War II generation.[7]
Career
editBorn in Wembley, Sadie was educated at St Paul's School, London, and studied music privately for three years with Bernard Stevens.[8] At Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge he read music under Thurston Dart. Sadie earned Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees in 1953, a Master of Arts degree in 1957, and a PhD in 1958. His doctoral dissertation was on mid-eighteenth-century British chamber music.[9] After Cambridge, he taught at Trinity College of Music, London (1957–1965).[10][11][12]
Sadie then turned to music journalism, becoming music critic for The Times (1964–1981), and contributing reviews to the Financial Times after 1981, when he had to leave his position and The Times because of his commitments to the Grove and other scholarly work. He was editor of The Musical Times from 1967 until 1987.[13][14][15]
From 1970, Sadie was editor of what was planned to be the sixth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980). Sadie oversaw major changes to the dictionary, which grew from nine volumes to twenty, and was published as The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (New Grove), and is now referred to as the first edition under that name. He was also an important force behind the second edition of New Grove (2001), which grew further to 29 volumes. Sadie also oversaw a major expansion of the Grove franchise, editing the one-volume Grove Concise Dictionary of Music (1988), and several spinoff dictionaries, such as the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (three volumes, 1984), the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, (with H. Wiley Hitchcock, four volumes, 1986), and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (four volumes, 1992). He also edited composer biographies based on the entries in Grove.[16][17]
Outside his work on the Grove dictionaries, Sadie edited the Man and Music volumes accompanying a television series (1989–1993).[18] He was also an accomplished bassoonist.[19][20][21][22]
Sadie died at his home in Cossington, Somerset, on 21 March 2005, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Motor Neurone disease), which had been diagnosed only a few weeks earlier.
Sadie married twice. His first wife, Adèle Sadie (née Bloom; 1931–1978) – whom he married in 1953 in London, and with whom he had two sons and a daughter – died in 1978. Sadie married Julie Anne Sadie (née Vertrees; born 1948), also a musicologist, in 1978. They had a son and a daughter.
Honours
editIn 1982, Sadie was appointed CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire). He received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Leicester in 1982, and was elected honorary fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1994 and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 2005, Sadie became a Handel Prize laureate.
Professional affiliations
edit- American Musicological Society, corresponding member, 1996
- Royal Musical Association, president 1989–1984
- The Critics' Circle
- International Musicological Society, president 1992–1997
References
edit- ^ Biography Index, H. W. Wilson Company; ISSN 0006-3053
Vol. 12: September 1979 – August 1982 (1983)
Vol. 30: September 2004 – August 2005 (2005)
Vol. 31 September 2005 – August 2006 (2006) - ^ Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Sadie is in Vol. 5 of 6), Macmillan; Schirmer
6th ed, Slonimsky (ed.) (1978); OCLC 4426869
7th ed, Slonimsky (ed.) (1984); OCLC 10574930
8th ed, Slonimsky (ed.) (1992); OCLC 24246972
9th ed, Laura Diane Kuhn (ed.) (born 1953) (2001); OCLC 44972043 - ^ Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians, Nicolas Slonimsky (ed), Schirmer (1997); OCLC 36111932
- ^ Baker's Dictionary of Opera, Laura Kuhn (born 1953), New York: Schirmer Books (2000); OCLC 41531658
- ^ "Stanley Sadie (1930–2005): A Remembrance", by James P. Cassaro, website: IAML, 26 March 2015
- ^ "Stanley Sadie, 74, Writer and Scholar of Music History, Dies", by Allan Kozinn, The New York Times, 23 March 2005
- ^ Whittall, Arnold (22 April 2009). "Nigel Fortune: Musicologist behind a rise in academic standards in Britain". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- ^ Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
- ^ British chamber music, 1720–1790 (dissertation), Stanley John Sadie, PhD, University of Cambridge (1958); OCLC 11000833, 502093985, 127124503
- ^ Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Detroit: Gale Research; ISSN 0275-7176
Vol. 9 (1983); OCLC 873325505
Vol. 115 (2003); OCLC 659933884 - ^ Contemporary Authors Detroit: Gale Research; ISSN 0275-7176; ISSN 0010-7468
Vols. 17–20, 1st rev. (1976); OCLC 655229931
Volume 237 (2006); OCLC 507344108 - ^ The International Authors and Writers Who's Who, Adrian Gaster (1919–1989) (ed), Cambridge, England: International Biographical Centre; ISSN 0143-8263
8th ed. (1977)
9th ed. (1982)
10th ed. (1986)
12th ed. (1991)
11th ed. (1989)
13th ed. 1993– 94 (1993) - ^ International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory (in the Classical and Light Classical fields), Adrian Gaster (1919–1989), Cambridge, England: International Who's Who in Music; ISSN 0307-2894
6th ed. (1972); OCLC 9991844
9th ed. (1980); OCLC 7519641
12th ed. 1990–1991 (1990); OCLC 28065697
17th ed. 2000–2001 (2000); OCLC 610394664 - ^ International Who's Who, Europa Publications; ISSN 0074-9613
42nd ed., 1978 (1978); OCLC 440743278
43rd ed., 1979–80 (1979); OCLC 440743632
44th ed., 1980–81 (1980); OCLC 440743737
45th ed., 1981–82 (1981); OCLC 440743813
46th ed., 1982–83 (1982); OCLC 440744015
47th ed., 1983–84 (1983); OCLC 441457144
53rd ed., 1989–90 (1989); OCLC 20250797
55th ed., 1991–92 (1991); OCLC 24322591
57th ed., 1993–94 (1993); OCLC 28473075
61st ed., 1997–98 (1997); OCLC 37363047
62nd ed., 1998–99 (1998); OCLC 39517239
63rd ed., 2000 (1999); OCLC 59440072
64th ed., 2000–01 (2000); OCLC 43788856
65th ed., 2002 (2001); OCLC 59550486
66th ed., 2003 (2002); OCLC 50197639
67th ed., 2004 (2003); OCLC 59342773
68th ed., 2005 (2004); OCLC 59262688 - ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 20 volumes, Stanley Sadie (ed.) London: Macmillan Publishers (1980); OCLC 5676891
- ^ Something about the Author, Vol. 14, Detroit: Gale Research (1978); OCLC 705262453
- ^ Who's Who, An Annual Biographical Dictionary, St. Martin's Press; ISSN 0083-937X
126th Year, 1974–1975 (1974)
134th Year, 1982–1983 (1982)
135th Year, 1983–1984 (1983)
137th Year, 1985–1986 (1985)
140th Year, 1988 (1988)
142nd Year, 1990 (1990)
144th Year, 1992 (1992)
146th Year, 1994 (1994)
150th Year, 1998 (1998)
151st Year, 1999 (1999)
152nd Year, 2000 (2000)
153rd Year, 2001 2001)
154th Year, 2002 2002)
155th Year, 2003 (2003)
156th Year, 2004 (2004)
157th Year, 2005 (2005) - ^ Latham, Alison. "Sadie, Stanley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/96225. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.); OCLC 4916054867
- ^ The Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 6th ed., J.V. Yates (ed.), Darien, CT: Hafner Publishing Co. (1971); OCLC 1243912
- ^ Who's Who in Entertainment, 3rd ed., 1998–1999, Marquis Who's Who (1997); OCLC 38740408
- ^ Who's Who in the World, Wilmette, Illinois: Marquis Who's Who; ISSN 0083-9825
3rd ed., 1976–1977 (1976)
7th ed., 1984–1985 (1984)
8th ed., 1987–1988 (1986)
9th ed., 1989–1990 (1988)
10th ed., 1991–1992 (1990)
11th ed., 1993–1994 (1992)
12th ed., 1995–1996 (1994)
13th ed., 1996–1997 (1995)
14th ed., 1997 (1996)
15th ed., 1998 (1997)
16th ed., 1999 (1999)
17th ed., 2000 (1999)
18th ed., 2001 (2000)
19th ed., 2002 (2001) - ^ The Writers Directory St. Martin's Press; ISSN 0084-2699
3rd ed., 1976–1978
4th ed., 1980–1982
5th ed., 1982–1984 (1981)
6th ed., 1984–1986 (1983)
7th ed., 1986–1988 (1986)
8th ed., 1988–1990 (1988)
9th ed., 1990–1992 (1990)
10th ed., 1992–1994 (1991)
11th ed., 1994–1996 (1994)
12th ed., 1996–1998 (1996)
13th ed., 1998–2000 (1997)
14th ed., 1999 (1999)
15th ed., 2000 (2000)
16th ed., 2001 (2001)
17th ed., 2002 (2002)
18th ed., 2003 (2003)
19th ed., 2004 (2003)
20th ed., 2005 (2004)
21st ed., 2006 (2005)
22nd ed., 2007 (2006)
23rd ed., 2008 (2007) (obituaries at end of vol.)
Sources
edit- Stanley Sadie Archive Project, Cambridge University Library.
External links
edit- The Grove dictionary online Archived 16 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- The Times obituary (subscription required)
- Obituary by Alison Latham, The Guardian, 24 March 2005
- Interview with Stanley Sadie, 29 October 1992