부산대학교 도서관

(b Bovey Tracey, Devon, Sept 17, 1895; d St Cloud, Dec 10, 1975). English writer on music. He obtained the licence ès lettres at the Sorbonne in 1915 and studied for a year at the Schola Cantorum; he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in the same year. After serving with the army in France and Egypt he returned to Cambridge in 1919 and began lecturing there in 1922. Four years later he was appointed professor of French in the Newcastle division of the University of Durham, now the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. After his retirement in 1960 he lived at St Cloud, France. Girdlestone’s teaching consistently extolled classical ideals, especially clarity of expression and control of emotion by form. His first book, Dreamer and Striver: The Poetry of Frédéric Mistral (London, 1937), vindicated classical qualities in a 19th-century poet, and his first on music, Mozart et ses concertos pour piano...