Cuthbert Morton Girdlestone (17 September 1895 – 10 December 1975) was a British

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and literary scholar. Born in

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, he was educated at

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and the Sorbonne, and thereafter took up the chair in French in Armstrong College, later to be King's College in

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in 1926, a position he held until 1960. His most famous publications are his much-reprinted study of the

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(1939, published originally in French) and his biography of

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(1957).

Books

*Girdlestone, Cuthbert. ''Mozart et ses concertos pour piano.'' Paris, Fischbacher. 1939. **Girdlestone, Cuthbert. ''Mozart and His Piano Concertos''. New York: Dover Publications, 1964. "An unabridged and corrected republication of the second (1958) edition of the work first published in 1948 by Cassell & Company, Ltd., London, under the title Mozart’s Piano Concertos." A translation of ''Mozart et ses concertos pour piano.'' (pbk.) (3rd edition published London: Cassell, 1978. .) *Girdlestone, Cuthbert. ''Jean-Philippe Rameau, His Life and Work''. London: Cassell. 1957. (2nd Edition: Paris: Lettres modernes, 1968, and in English: New York:

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, 1969. .) **Girdlestone, Cuthbert. ''Jean-Philippe Rameau: sa vie, son œuvre.'' Desclée de Brouwer, 1983, ©1962. . *Girdlestone, Cuthbert. ''La tragédie en musique, considéré comme genre littéraire.'' Droz, Geneva. 1972. OCoLC 772775.

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* 1895 births 1975 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge College of Sorbonne alumni English writers about music Mozart scholars Knights of the Legion of Honour Austrian musicologists 20th-century Austrian composers 20th-century Austrian male musicians 20th-century British musicologists {{UK-music-bio-stub