Henry Edward Krehbiel

Henry Edward Krehbiel ( born March 10, 1854 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, † March 20, 1923 in New York City ) was an American music critic and musicologist.

Life

Krehbiel was the son of a German -born Methodist pastor. He had no college education and no formal training in music, he only took as a child in Cincinnati private lessons in music theory and violin. He studied law in Cincinnati in 1872 to make without a degree. 1874 to 1880 he was music critic of the Cincinnati Gazette. He then went to New York City and became a music critic for the New York Tribune. He also wrote in Scribner's Monthly, and other magazines and was one of the leading music critic in New York late 19th and early 20th century.

He has published books, for example, about operas and translated libretti of operas ( as Parsifal by Wagner ) and the Beethoven biography of Alexander Wheelock Thayer (which originally appeared in German ). From Krehbiel comes one of the first musicological study of African-American music. He promoted the music of Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in the USA. However, he criticized Gustav Mahler ( both as a composer and as a conductor) and Salome by Richard Strauss. He also rejected Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.

Beginning 1885/86, he published five years Review of the New York musical scene with his criticisms of the Tribune.