Oldman, C(ecil) B(ernard)
Oldman, C(ecil) B(ernard)
Oldman, C(ecil) B(ernard) , English librarian and bibliographer; b. London, April 2, 1894; d. there, Oct. 7, 1969. He studied at Exeter Coll., Oxford. In 1920 he received an appointment in the Dept. of Printed Books in the British Museum in London; from 1948 to 1959, was Principal Keeper. In 1952 he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath and in 1958 a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. He was an authority on Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven bibliographical matters; annotated the letters of Constanze Mozart to J.A. André in E. Anderson’s The Letters of Mozart and His Family (3 vols., London, 1938; 2nd ed., rev., 1966 by A. Hyatt King and M. Carolan; 3rd ed., rev., 1985 by S. Sadie and E Smart); his essay “Musical First Editions” in J. Carter, ed., New Paths in Book-collecting (London 1934) was publ. separately (1938).
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