The British Musical Biography

[E] Shedlock, John South, pianist, critic,
and author, born at Reading, 18'43. Graduated
B.A., London University, 1864. Studied pf.
under E. Liibeck, and composition under Ed.
Lalo, at Paris. On his return to London he
was principally engaged in teaching, occasion-
ally giving some excellent chamber concerts,
up to 1879, when he became musical critic of
the Academy, and from that time he devoted
himself chiefly to musical literature. In
1875, however, he had contributed articles on
Raff's Symphonies to the Montldy Musical
Record. Other papers followed : and in 1892
he began an elaborate series of articles on
Beethoven's Sketch Books in the Musical
Times. In 1893 he discovered, at Berlin, a
copy of Cramer's Studies, with comments by
Beethoven. An account of this he published
with a preface, and explanatory notes. He
edited Kuhnau's "Biblical Sonatas," 1895;
and played them at the R.A.M., 1896, to illus-
trative lectures by E. F. Jacques; also edited
a Selection of Harpsichord pieces by Bernardo
Pasquini. He has lectured at the R.A.M.,
and been a busy worker for music in many
ways. Author of " The Pianoforte Sonata,
its origin and development, London, Methuen,
1895. His most important composition is a
Quartet for pf . and strings, 1886 ; he has also
written a Romance and Scherziuo, etc., for pf.

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