The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopaedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, it is the largest single reference work on Western music. The Dictionary has gone through several editions since the 19th century and is widely used. In recent years it has been made available as an electronic resource.
It was first published as A Dictionary of Music and Musicians in ...
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The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopaedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, it is the largest single reference work on Western music. The Dictionary has gone through several editions since the 19th century and is widely used. In recent years it has been made available as an electronic resource.
It was first published as A Dictionary of Music and Musicians in four volumes (1878, 1880, 1883, 1899) edited by Sir George Grove with an Appendix edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland and an Index edited by Mrs. Edmund Wodehouse.
The 2nd edition, in five volumes, was edited by Fuller Maitland and published in 1900. The 3rd edition, also in five volumes, was an extensive revision of the 2nd edition; it was edited by H. C. Colles and published in 1927. The 4th edition, also edited by Colles, was published in 1940 in five volumes (a reprint of the 3rd edition, with some corrections) plus a Supplementary Volume ...
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