Jerrold Northrop Moore

Jerrold Northrop Moore (1 March 1934 – 18 May 2024) was an American-born British musicologist, best known for a biography and other writings on the life and music of Sir Edward Elgar. He was also an authority on the history of the gramophone. 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. He has lived in England since 1970.

Moore died on 18 May 2024, at the age of 90.

Elgar writings 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 definitive biographies of Elgar.

Other Moore's other publications include: A Voice in Time: the Gramophone of Fred Gaisberg (1976) Music and Friends: Seven Decades of Letters to Adrian Boult (1979) Sound Revolutions: A Biography 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 The Green Fuse: Pastoral Vision in English Art 1820-2000