Gray, Cecil (1895–1951)

Scottish writer on music and composer. In 1920 he became joint editor of the Sackbut with Philip Heseltine, with whom he also wrote a book on the composer Don Carlo Gesualdo (1926), and whose biography as a composer (Peter Warlock) he published. Other books are a History of Music (1928), essays ‘Predicaments’ (1936), and ‘Contingencies’ (1947), and two works on Sibelius (1931, 1935).

Works Opera Deirdre, The Temptation of St Anthony (after Flaubert), and The Trojan Women (after Euripides).