Henry Fothergill Chorley
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Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808 – February 16, 1872) was an English literary, art and music critic.
Chorley was a member of an old Lancashire family. He began in a merchant's office, but soon took to musical journalism. He began to write for the Athenaeum in 1830, and remained its music critic for more than a generation; and he also became music critic for The Times. In these positions, he had much influence; he had strong views, and was a persistent opponent of innovation.
In addition to musical criticism, Chorley wrote voluminously on literature and art. He also wrote novels, dramas and verse, and various librettos, including The Amber Witch for composer Vincent Wallace and two for his friend Arthur Sullivan, The Sapphire Necklace and The Masque at Kenilworth, and published several books, including Modern German Music (1854), Handel Studies (1859), and Thirty Years Musical Recollections (1862).
Chorley died in London in 1872, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery.
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- Chorley, Henry Fothergill, "Autobiography, Memoir and Letters", edited by H. G. Hewlett (1873).
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
