Editing Gerald Moore (section)

===Later years===
Moore retired from public performances in 1967, with a farewell concert in which he accompanied three of the singers with whom he was long associated: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, [[Victoria de los Ángeles]] and [[Elisabeth Schwarzkopf]].  This famed concert at London's [[Royal Festival Hall]] - recorded by EMI and reissued in 1987 as CDC 749238 - concluded with Moore playing alone — an arrangement for solo piano of [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]'s  ''[[An die Musik]]''.  He made his last studio recording in 1975.

In his memoirs Moore wrote that his services were not needed at [[Benjamin Britten]]'s [[Aldeburgh Festival]], "as the presiding genius there is the greatest accompanist in the world." In 1967, the chief music critic of ''[[The Times]]'', William Mann held that the preeminence was Moore's: "the greatest accompanist of his day, and perhaps of all time."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mann |first1=William |author1-link=William Mann (critic) |title=Farewell to world's greatest accompanist |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS135490645/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=d487f8fe |access-date=17 June 2021 |work=[[The Times]] |agency=Gale |issue=56871 |date=21 February 1967 |location=London |page=8}}</ref> In 2006 ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'' magazine invited eminent present-day accompanists to name their "professional's professional"; the joint winners were Britten and Moore.<ref>''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'', Volume 83, 2006, pp. 38–39</ref>

He died at home in the village of [[Penn, Buckinghamshire]] in 1987.<ref name="NYT-obit">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/17/obituaries/gerald-moore-is-dead-at-87-top-accompanist-for-singers.html |title=Gerald Moore Is Dead at 87; Top Accompanist for Singers |first=Tim |last=Page |author-link=Tim Page (music critic) |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 March 1987 |access-date=17 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-20-mn-7826-story.html |title=Pre-Eminent Accompanist Gerald Moore Dies |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=20 March 1987 |access-date=17 June 2021}}</ref>