- Sadie, Stanley
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▪ 2006British musicologist (b. Oct. 30, 1930, London, Eng.—d. March 21, 2005, Cossington, Somerset, Eng.), was the editor of the 20-volume The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980) and of a second, expanded edition published in 2001. He also edited several spinoffs, including The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992). After receiving his education at the University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1958), Sadie taught, worked as a critic and reviewer, and, from 1967 to 1987, was editor of the Musical Times. An authority on George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he wrote extensively on both. Sadie was made CBE in 1982.
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