Background
Moore was born in Paterson, New Jersey and was brought up in the United States.
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Jerrold Northrop Moore
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He studied at Yale University, taught at the University of Rochester from 1958 to 1961, and was Curator of Historical Sound Recordings at Yale from 1961 to 1970.
Career
He is also an authority on the history of the gramophone. He has lived in England since 1970. Jerrold Northrop Moore"s book Edward Elgar: A Creative Life was published in 1984, has been continuously in print ever since, and along with that by Michael Kennedy is considered one of the two the definitive biographies of Elgar.
His other include:
The Elgar Complete Edition (joint editor)
An Elgar Discography (1963)
Elgar: a Life in Photographs (1972-1974)
Elgar on Record (1974)
Spirit of England: Edward Elgar in his World (1984)
Elgar and his Publishers: Letters of a Creative Life, Volumes
I and II (1987)
Edward Elgar: the Windflower Letters (1989)
Edward Elgar: Letters of a Lifetime (1990)
Elgar: Child of Dreams (2004). He is a recipient of the Elgar Society Medal, the Elgar Society"s highest honour, which recognises performers or scholars who have contributed significantly over the previous decade or more to the wider appreciation of Elgar and his music
Moore"s other publications include:
A Voice in Time: the Gramophone of Fred Gaisberg (1976)
Sound Revolutions: A of Fred Gaisberg Founding Father of Commercial Sound Recording (1999)
F. L. Griggs, 1876–1938: The Architecture of Dreams (2000)
Vaughan Williams: a Life in Photographs (1992)
Confederate Commissary General
Historical sound recordings program at Yale University
Philharmonic Jubilee 1932-1982.
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United Kingdom