This volume is one of a series of short biographies derived from the New Grove Dictionary of music and musicians (London 1980) in it's original form, the text was written in the mid-1970's and finalized at the end of that decade. For this reprint, the text have been re-read and modified.
Stanley John Sadie CBE was an influential and prolific English musicologist, former music critic for The Times of London and editor of The Musical Times, published thirty books and edited the monumental New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.