History of Opera (Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music)

Stanley Sadie was music critic for The Times, editor of The Musical Times and music consultant to the TV series Man and Music. He edited The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, as well as its many associated dictionaries. He wrote extensively on Mozart and Handel and was president of the royal Musical Association (1989 94) and the International Musicological Society (1992 97). He was appointed CBE in 1982. He died in 2005.