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Scottish music critic and composer
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Male
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Birth:
1 January 1895(Edinburgh)
Death:
1 January 1951(Worthing)
The details
Biography
Cecil Gray (1895–1951) was a Scottish music critic and composer. He published books on the composers Jean Sibelius, Peter Warlock and Carlo Gesualdo, the last of these co-authored by the same Warlock; also a history of music, collections of essays on music, a play about Gilles de Rais and an autobiography.
He also wrote three operas: Deirdre (performed in part on the BBC), The Temptation of St Anthony (after Flaubert) and The Trojan Women.
He married Natalia Mamontova, the daughter of Natalia Brasova.