380 Pages
by
Routledge
380 Pages
by
Routledge
380 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1998, this book focuses on the once celebrated but now neglected musical journalism of Henry Forthergill Chorley. For nearly forty years he effectively used his acerbic pen and idiosyncratic critical judgments to celebrate the works of Rossini, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Gounod and Sullivan, and to scorn those of Schumann , Verdi and Wagner. This book also discusses his... Read more
1. A Beginning: Friends and Family. 2. Beginning Again: Journalism and Literature. 3. Chorley and Music, 1834 – 41. 5. The Forties: In Mid-Career. 6.The Fifties : In Mid-Career. 7. Final Years at the Athenaeum: 1860 – 68. 8. A Gentleman of Independent Means: Sick, Drunk, and Lonely.
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Terrell Bledsoe, Robert
