Sadie, Stanley John (1930–2005)

English critic, writer, and editor. He studied at Cambridge with Thurston Dart and Charles Cudworth, where he was awarded the MA (1957) and PhD (1958). He was a music critic with The Times (1964–81) and editor of The Musical Times (1967–87). He has written books on Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven, and in 1970 became editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. From 1976 he was general editor of the Master Musicians series. He was awarded the CBE in 1982.

His wife Julie Anne (born Eugene, 1948) trained as a viola da gambist and edited the Companion to Baroque Music (1991). She was co-editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1994).