| Description |
1 online resource (380 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals Ser |
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Routledge Revivals Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Preface; 1: A Beginning: Friends and Family; 2: Beginning Again: Journalism and Literature; 3: Chorley and Music, 1834-41; 4: Elizabeth Barrett and Felix Mendelssohn; 5: The Forties: the Old Order and the Power of the Press; 6: The Fifties: in Mid-Career; 7: Final Years at the Athenœum: 1860-68; 8: A Gentleman of Independent Means: Sick, Drunk, and Lonely; Works Consulted: Selected List; Index |
| Summary |
First published in 1998, this book focuses on the once celebrated but now neglected musical journalism ofHenry 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 friendships with literary figures such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Felicia Hemans, as well as his ongoing efforts to establish himself as a novelist as well as a journalist |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Music critics -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Music journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Music critics.
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Music journalists.
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Music critics
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Music journalists
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429843969 |
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0429843968 |
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9780429453854 |
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042945385X |
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9780429843952 |
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042984395X |
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