Stanley Sadie dead at 74

Stanley Sadie, musicologist, writer and editor whose prodigious output included editing the last two editions of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, died on Monday at his home in Cossington, England. He was 74.
Mr. Sadie studied music at Cambridge University, taught at the Trinity College of Music in London, and was a critic for The Times of London, and the British recordings magazine Gramophone. In 1967, he was appointed editor of the Musical Times, an important musicological journal that he oversaw for 20 years. Mr. Sadie's final project was "Mozart: The Early Years, 1756-1781," scheduled to be published by Norton in December.
In addition to his wife, Julie Anne Sadie, Mr. Sadie is survived by three sons, Graham, of Cheltenham, England; Stephen, of Wachtendonk, Germany; and Matthew, of London; and two daughters, Ursula Payne, of Winchester, England; and Celia, of London; and a sister, Dr. Wendy Robertson, of Perth, Australia.