Eric Walter Blom CBE (20 August 1888 – 11 April 1959) was a Swiss-born British-naturalised[1] music lexicographer, music critic and writer. He is best known as the editor of the 5th edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1954).
Riveting stuff and very academic, dry in places as it does what it says on the tin type of thing, you really have to get into it to be rewarded with what is a very good insight into the life of the genius.