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HENRY FOTHERGILL CHORLEY (1808—1872)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 270 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:FOTHERGILL See also:CHORLEY (1808—1872)  , See also:English musical critic, one of an old See also:Lancashire See also:family, began in a See also:merchant's See also:office, but soon took to musical journalism . He began to write for the See also:Athenaeum in 1830, and remained its musical critic for more than a See also:generation; and he also became musical critic for The Times . In these positions he had much See also:influence; he had strong views, and was a persistent opponent of innovation . In addition to musical See also:criticism, he wrote voluminously on literature and See also:art, besides novels, dramas and See also:verse, and various librettos; and he published several books, including See also:Modern See also:German See also:Music (1854), See also:Handel Studies (1859), and See also:Thirty Years' Musical Recollections (1862) . He died in See also:London on the 16th of See also:February 1872 . See his Autobiography, Memoir and Letters, edited by H . G . See also:Hewlett (1873) .

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