Chopin and Other Musical Essays - Softcover

Finck, Henry Theophilus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434629694 ISBN 13: 9781434629692

Publisher: BiblioBazaar, 2007

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About the Author:

Henry Theophilus Finck (September 22, 1854 – October 1, 1926) was an American music critic, a leading promoter in the United States of Richard Wagner and his musical theories. Finck was born at Bethel, Missouri, and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he was taught piano and violincello. He taught himself Latin and Greek so thoroughly that he was able to enter Harvard as a sophomore in 1872. At Harvard, he studied philosophy, the classics, and music. He graduated in 1876. He attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, of which he wrote accounts for newspapers and magazines. The Harris fellowship from Harvard being awarded to him, he spent three years (1878–1881) in the study of physiological psychology in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna. He became musical editor of the New York Evening Post in 1881 and was on the editorial staff of the associated journal, The Nation. He was connected with them for forty years. While at the Post, he also served as the epicurean editor and reviewed all the new garden books.

About this edition

• Publisher: BiblioBazaar
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1434629694
• ISBN 13: 9781434629692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158