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Henry F. Gilbert: A Bio-Bibliography.

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Henry F. Gilbert: A Bio-Bibliography. By Sherrill V. Martin. (Bio-Bibliographies in Music, 93.) Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. [xii, 296 p. ISBN 0-313-27445-2. $79.95.] Index, discography.

During the second decade of the twentieth century, some writers on music considered Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (1868-1928) America's foremost composer. Sherrill V. Martin has revealed in the present bio-bibliography the riches of MSS 35, The Henry Gilbert Papers in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University (see finding aid at http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xm12html/music/gil-col.htm [this and subsequent Web sites accessed 25 May 2005]) and has compiled sufficient information with commentary to help clarify, at the chronological distance of many decades, how a composer now little known or performed attained such stature. This publication follows the usual format for bio-bibliographies: a brief biography followed by citations with annotations of (1) a list of works and performances; (2) a discography; (3) a general bibliography; (4) a bibliography of the subject's writings; (5) a bibliography of works and performances, i.e., mostly reviews and commentaries, and concluded by (6) appendices, and (7) an index.

If Gilbert was not universally accepted in his day as the successor to Edward A. MacDowell (1860-1908), whom some mentioned as the foremost composer in America at the turn of the twentieth century, he was actually MacDowell's first composition student following the elder composer's return...

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