The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians - A Dictionary of Music and Musicians

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians was first published in four volumes (1878, 1880, 1883, 1889) edited by Sir George Grove with an Appendix edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland in the fourth volume. An Index edited by Mrs. Edmund Wodehouse was issued as a separate volume in 1890. In 1900, minor corrections were made to the plates as required, and the entire series was reissued in four volumes, with the index added to volume 4. The original edition and the reprint are now freely available online. Grove limited the chronological span of his work to begin at 1450 while continuing up to the present day.