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John Sullivan Dwight (May 13, 1813 – September 5, 1893) was an American classical music critic, transcendentalist, school director, and minister. He is considered America's first influential music critic.
Nov 26, 2023 · The man who translated “O Holy Night” into English, John Sullivan Dwight, believed that reflection on this miracle had the potential to confront oppression and injustice in his day. In an...
Jun 22, 2023 · This biography follows Dwight’s life as he meets and writes about some of the era’s most significant 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.
John Sullivan Dwight was for many years America's leading music critic. He chronicled the 19th century art and music scene in Boston and at Brook Farm.
John Sullivan Dwight, born, in Boston, May 13, 1813, was a virtuoso in music, and an enthusiastic student of the art and science of tonal harmony. He joined a Harvard musical club known as "The Pierian Sodality" while a student at the University, and after his graduation became a prolific writer on musical subjects.
Jun 22, 2023 · A chapter from a book that explores the life and works of John Sullivan Dwight, a prominent music critic and Transcendentalist in 19th-century Boston. Learn about his contributions to music history, his views on modernism and Wagner, and his final years of quiet and solitude.
Before writing an early pre-publication review of Thoreau’s Walden (1854), and despite being considered a minor Transcendentalist figure, John Sullivan Dwight made some significant contributions to the social and literary aspects of this American movement.
