Percy Scholes (original) (raw)

Percy Alfred Scholes PhD OBE FSA FRHistS FTSC (24 July 1877 – 31 July 1958) (pronounced skolz) was an English musician, journalist and prolific writer, whose best-known achievement was his compilation of the first edition of The Oxford Companion to Music. His 1948 biography The Great Dr Burney was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.