Henry Theophilus Finck
Henry Theophilus Finck (September 22, 1854 - 1926) was an American musical critic, 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 attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, of which he wrote accounts for newspapers and magazines. A subsequent fellowship from Harvard enabled him to spend three years in study in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna.
He became musical editor of the New York Evening Post in 1881 and 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.
His writings include:
- Romantic Love and Personal Beauty (1887)
- Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (1889)
- Pacific Coast Scenic Tour (1890)
- Spain and Morocco (1890)
- Wagner and his Works (1891)
- Lotos Time in Japan (1898)
- Primitive Love and Love Stories (1899)
- Pictorial Wagner (1899)
- Anton Seidl (1899)
- Songs and Song Writers (1900)
- Edward Grieg (1905)
- Massenet and his Opera (1910)
- Gardening With Brains: Fifty Years' Experience of a Horticultural Epicure (1922)
External links
- Works by Henry Theophilus Finck at Project Gutenberg
- Success in music and how it is won (1909) - with a Chapter On Tempo Rubato by Ignace Jan Paderewski
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