Editing Gordon Jacob (section)

{{short description|English composer (1895–1984)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
|name = Gordon Jacob
|honorific_suffix = [[CBE]]
|birth_name = Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob
|birth_date = {{birth date|1895|7|5|df=y}}
|background = non_performing_personnel
|birth_place = London, England
|occupation = Composer
|genre = Orchestral, wind band, classical
|instrument = Piano
|death_date = {{death date and age|1984|6|8|1895|7|5|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Saffron Walden]], England
}}
'''Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob''' [[CBE]] (5 July 1895{{spaced ndash}}8 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the [[Royal College of Music]] in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about music. As a composer he was prolific: the list of his works totals more than 700, mostly compositions of his own, but a substantial minority of orchestrations and arrangements of other composers' works. Those whose music he orchestrated range from [[William Byrd]] to [[Edward Elgar]] to [[Noël Coward]].