Michael Dimitrios (Dimitrios) Calvocoressi

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6 Mar 1898: Michael Demetrios Calvocoressi, 20, unmarried, born Ermoupolis, swore allegiance to the Greek government at the Town Hall, Ermoupolis, Syros.

Calvocoressi, Michael, from Greece. Resident in London. Also Marseille. UK naturalization certificate 12103 issued 18 May 1925 (National Archives)

Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi translated documents from French into English (UK National Archives).

Occupation: writer

Michel Calvocoressi [with Ethel Calvocoressi, 6 Paultons Square] appears on the 1926, 1927, [with Michel Calvocoressi, 5 Bramerton Street] 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, [hereafter only Ethel] 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958 electoral register, Chelsea parliamentary division, Kensington and Chelsea county/borough.

His wikipedia page.

He met Ravel in 1898 and, after an initial period of mutual suspicion, they became lifelong friends. It was Calvocoressi who provided Ravel with the folk texts for his Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques. Educated in France, Calvocoressi was a skilled linguist and wrote in several languages. He published books on Liszt (1906), Moussorgsky (1908), Glinka (1911), Schumann (1912), as well translations into English. After WWI, he moved to England. On Musical Criticism was published in 1923 (OUP), and Musicians Gallery in 1933. In his Miroirs Ravel dedicated to him Alborada del Gracioso [Morning Song of the Jester]. Worked for the War Office in London during WWI, dealing with postal censorship when he joined British Intelligence (presumably MI5 or, more likely, MI6). He is referred to in Alan Judd’s The Quest for C - Mansfield Cumming and the foundation of the Secret Service. (Christopher Long)

Residence: at DOD, 5 Bramerton Street, Chelsea, London, England UK

1921 England and Wales Census lists: Michael Calvocoressi, b. 1877, France; Ethel Calvocoressi, b. 1895, London, London, for a household in Chelsea, London.

Birth:
Argenti says 21 Oct 1877, Marseille, France.

Michael married Ethel (Gabriel) Silverman on 24 May 1916 in St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England UK. Ethel (daughter of Gabriel Silverman and Bertha [Silverman]) was born about 1889 in London, England UK; died on 2 Dec 1957 in London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]