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John Alexander Fuller Maitland (7 April 1856 – 30 March 1936) was an influential British music critic and scholar.

Life

He was born at 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, the son of John Fuller Maitland and his wife Marianne (born Noble). He attended Westminster School for three terms, but for most of his childhood he was educated privately, including musical instruction. Starting in 1875, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] where he was active in the Cambridge University Musical Society and friends with Stanford and William Barclay Squire, whose sister Charlotte he would marry in 1885. He went on to become a leading musical journalist, as a critic for the Pall Mall Gazette from 1882, later for The Guardian (1884-9) and The Times (1889-1911). He also wrote many entries for Groves' Dictionary of Music and Musicians and he was appointed editor of the second edition.

He was active in both the early music revival of the late nineteenth century and the study of folksong. For the former he worked notably on harpsichord music, including an edition of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (1894-9), and on the editorial committee of the Purcell Society, for which he edited several of Purcell's works. For the latter he edited with his relative Lucy Broadwood the influential collection English County Songs (1893) and he was on the original committee of the Folk Song Society, founded in 1898.[2] But his interests also extended to romantic music and to his contemporaries.

He gave up music journalism in 1911, retiring to Borwick Hall near Carnforth in Lancashire. He continued to write books, including an autobiography, A Door-Keeper of Music (1929). Among other honours, he received an honorary DLitt from Durham University in 1928. He died at Borwick Hall on March 30, 1936.

Secondary Literature

  • Jeremy Dibble, "Maitland, John Alexander Fuller (1856-1936)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: OUP, 2004 (accessed November 16, 2008)
  • Jeremy Dibble, "Fuller Maitland, J.A." Grove Music Online, Oxford: OUP, 2007-8 (accessed November 16, 2008)

Notes

  1. ^ "Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander (FLR875JA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ F. Kidson, s. v. "Folk Song Society", Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, II (1906), 70. (Online transcription)