Person:Edward Sackville-West (1)

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Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville
b.13 Nov 1901
d.4 Jul 1965
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Name Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville
Gender Male
Birth[1] 13 Nov 1901
Death[1] 4 Jul 1965
Reference Number Q5345194 (Wikidata)


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Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville (13 November 1901 – 4 July 1965) was a British music critic, novelist and, in his last years, a member of the House of Lords. Musically gifted as a boy, he was attracted as a young man to a literary life and wrote a series of semi-autobiographical novels in the 1920s and 1930s. They made little impact, and his more lasting books are a biography of the essayist Thomas De Quincey and The Record Guide, Britain's first comprehensive guide to classical music on record, first published in 1951.

As a critic and a member of the board of the Royal Opera House, he strove to promote the works of young British composers, including Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett. Britten worked with him on a musical drama for radio and dedicated to him one of his best known works, the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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