Title John Sullivan Dwight : the life and writings of Boston's musical transcendentalist / Bill F. Faucett

Edition [1.] Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource Summary "John Sullivan Dwight (1813-93) was for much of the nineteenth century America's leading music critic. Born into a musical family and educated at several premiere Boston schools, he fell under the spell of New England Transcendentalism during which time he befriended Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, and others of a similarly progressive mindset. Dwight resided at the socialist/utopian community of Brook Farm where he learned the art of journalism and the business of publishing while writing for The Harbinger. He wrote on many topics-Transcendentalism, of course, but especially on music and musical performance. Dwight was a skilled communicator, and he conveyed ideas powerfully, persuasively, and constantly in language that had recently been given verve by German Romanticism and Emersonian Transcendentalism. When Brook Farm collapsed, Dwight's professional prospects ran desperately low. After several years as a journeyman writer, he launched in 1852 his own Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature, a newspaper that firmly established him as a serious music critic. The Journal was published regularly until 1881. It was and remains an important periodical. In its own time, it spoke to America's growing appetite for art music; today it is indispensable for research into nineteenth-century American classical music, especially in Boston. This biography follows Dwight's fascinating life as he meets and writes about some of the era's most crucial intellectuals and musicians. His enormous body of essays, reviews, and translations, much of it illuminated here, leads to the conclusion that Dwight the Music Critic and Dwight the Transcendentalist are inseparable"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Dwight, John Sullivan, 1813-1893. SUBJECT Dwight, John Sullivan, 1813-1893 fast Subject Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.) SUBJECT Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.) fast Subject Music critics -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography Musical criticism -- United States -- History -- 19th century Music -- United States -- 19th century -- History and criticism Transcendentalism (New England) Music Music critics Musical criticism Transcendentalism (New England) Music. Music. Massachusetts -- Boston United States Genre/Form Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2022062183 ISBN 9780197684214 0197684211 9780197684191 019768419X

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