Cuthbert Girdlestone, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Cuthbert Girdlestone

British musicologist

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1895

Date of Death: 10-Dec-1975

Profession: composer, musicologist, music historian

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Cuthbert Morton Girdlestone (17 September 1895 - 10 December 1975) was a British musicologist and literary scholar. Born in Bovey Tracey, Devon, he was educated at Cambridge and the Sorbonne, and thereafter took up the chair in French in Armstrong College, later to be King's College in Newcastle in 1926, a position he held until 1960.
His most famous publications are his much-reprinted study of the Mozart Piano Concertos (1939, published originally in French) and his biography of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1957).