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The New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians 5 Ed. 2nd, 1904
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1previously occupied by Samuel Babb, whose trade stock and large circulating music library Dale purchased. In 1805 he took his son William into partnership and the firm became known as Joseph Dale & Son (or Joseph & William Dale). The partnership was dissolved in 1809, when William set up in business for himself, Joseph continued alone in the firm until his death.
3Joseph Dale was also a musician, and served as organist of St Anthony and St John the Baptist, Watling Street (1805). He composed concertos and sonatas, and arranged vocal airs with variations for the harpsichord or piano. He also took out letters patent for improvements to the tambourine. His firm, particularly in its early years, issued music of every description, including the operas of Storace and others, piano music by Clementi, Dussek, Krumpholtz and Steibelt, collections of English and Scottish songs, country-dance music and vast quantities of sheet music.
5(2) William Dale (b London, ?1780-85, d ?1827)
6Son of (1) Joseph Dale. He was in partnership with his father from 1805 to 1809, when he set up his own business as publisher, music seller and instrument dealer, issuing mainly sheet music. Elspeth Dale, presumably his widow, continued the business from 1827 until about 1832, it was then succeeded by Dale, Cockerill & Co., and in 1837 by G. Gange & Co., piano manufacturers and music sellers.
8(3) James Dale (fl c1800) Perhaps a brother of (1) Joseph Dale. He was a composer of sonatas and other works for piano, some of which were printed and published by him about 1800.
10BIBLIOGRAPHY
11F Kidson British Music Publishers, Printers and Engravers (London, 1900/R1974)
12C Humphries and W C Smith Music Publishing in the British Isles (London, 1954, 2/1970)
13WILLIAM C SMITH/PETER WARD JONFS
15Dale, Benjamin (James) (b London, 17 July 1885, d London, 30 July 1943) English composer and educationist. He studied at the RAM under Corder and was quick to show his talent: an overture inspired by Macaulay's Horatius was performed when he was only 14. His first published and still best-known work is the Piano Sonata composed in 1902 when Dale was still a student. Another notable success was his Suite for viola and piano (1906), the last two movements (Romance and Finale) were afterwards orchestrated, and the Romance became one of the most popular pieces in Tertis's repertory. The Phantasy for viola and piano (1911) was prompted by Cobbett, while the Introduction and Andante for six violas (1911) was written for Tertis's pupils.
17In August 1914 Dale was in Germany and was interned until March 1918. His health was impaired and on returning home he wrote little; but a journey round the world in 1919-20, occasioned by an examining visit to Australia and New Zealand, seems to have had a stimulating effect, for in 1921-2 he composed a Violin Sonata and in 1923 the festival anthem A Song of Praise. His last work, The Flowing Tide, though not completed until the year of his death, was sketched in 1924. In later years Dale was greatly occupied with educational work, particularly in connection with the RAM and the Associated Board. This, together with his fastidious and self-critical approach, kept his output small. Corder once remarked that Dale had written 'fewer and better works than any English composer of his generation', but his remarkable early promise was largely unfulfilled.
19WORKS
20(selective list)
21Orch Ov, 1900, Ov to Shakespeare's 'Tempest', 1902, Concert Ov, g. 1904, The Flowing Tide, tone poem, 1943
22Vocal Before the paling of the stars (Christmas hymn, C Rossetti), chorus, orch, 1912, A Song of Praise (festival anthem, psalms, Heber), solo vv, chorus, orch, 1923, 6 carols, 3 part songs, 3 solo songs
23Inst Sonata, d, pf, 1902, Suite, d, va, pf, 1906, Phantasy, D, va, pf, 1911, Introduction and Andante, 6 va, 1911, rev 1913, 3 Pieces, vn, pf, 1916-20, orchd 1919-25, Sonata, E, vn, pf, 1921-2, Ballade, c, vn, pf, 1927, other pf pieces
25BIBLIOGRAPHY
26F Corder 'Benjamin Dale's Pianoforte Sonata', MT, lix (1918), 164
27F Evans 'Modern British Composers, III. Benjamin Dale', MT, lx (1919), 201
28– 'Benjamin Dale', Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music, 1 (London, 1929, 2/1963), 310
29F Evans and others 'Dale, Benjamin (James)', Grove 5
30EDWIN F EVANS (with others)/HUGH OITAWAY
32Dale [née Richards], Kathleen (b London, 29 June 1895). English musicologist, composer and pianist. Her music studies were pursued privately with York Bowen and Fanny Davies for piano and with Benjamin Dale (whom she later married) for composition. From 1926 to 1928 she studied Swedish language and literature at University College, London, and she has since published translations from that and other languages (e.g. Redlich's Claudio Monteverdi and Reifling's Piano Pedalling). She taught theoretical subjects at the Matthay School (1925-31) and taught and lectured for the Workers' Educational Association (1945-50, 1957). She served on the council of the Society of Women Musicians (1920-25, 1946-9) and acted as Ethel Smyth's musical executor in 1944. Kathleen Dale's writings are mainly in the field of keyboard music, though she has also written a biography of Brahms and has written personal reminiscences of Ethel Smyth and Marion Scott. She edited Schubert's E minor Piano Sonata for its first complete publication (1931), and some of his songs.
34Kathleen Dale was most active as a pianist early in her career, broadcasting frequently during the period 1927-31. Her compositions, published under her maiden name, are mostly in small forms and include part songs, duets for two violins, pieces for violin and piano and for piano solo and duet.
36WRITINGS
37'Hours with Domenico Scarlatti', ML, xxii (1941), 115
38'Hours with Muzio Clementi', ML, xxiv (1943), 144
39'Edvard Grieg's Pianoforte Music', ML, xxiv (1943), 193
40'Dame Ethel Smyth', ML, xxv (1944), 191
41'The Piano Music', Schubert, ed G Abraham (London, 1946), 111-48
42'The Piano Music', Grieg, ed G Abraham (London, 1948), 45
43'Domenico Scarlatti his Unique Contribution to Keyboard Literature', PRMA, lxxiv (1947-8), 33
44'Ethel Smyth's Prentice Work', ML, xxx (1949), 329
45'The Piano Music', Schumann, ed G Abraham (London, 1952), 12-97
46'The Keyboard Music', Handel, ed G. Abraham (London, 1954), 233
47'Memories of Marion Scott', ML, xxxv (1954), 236
48'Nineteenth-century Piano Music' (London, 1954/R1972)
49'A Personal Recollection', 'Ethel Smyth's Music a Critical Study', Ethel Smyth, ed C St John (London, 1959), 255, 288
50'Ivor Gurney, 1890 1937 Composer and Poet', The Listener, lxii (1959), 1013
51Brahms (London, 1970)
53FRANK DAWES
55D'Alembert, Jean le Rond (b Paris, 16 Nov 1717; d Paris, 29 Oct 1783). French philosopher, mathematician and man of letters. He was the illegitimate son
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