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Volume 1-14 (Nos. 1-1051). Edited by its founder, John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893). Established in 1852 and continued until 1881. Published weekly, then fortnightly.
Dwight, who, among other accomplishments, was one of the founders of the Harvard Musical Association and later, for a short time, a Unitarian Minister, created one of the most striking music journals ever published in any language. The fact that his Journal was an American publication and existed at a particularly rich time in music history makes this work a highly valuable one.
Dwight's unshakeable artistic and editorial standards were applied over a wide range of music and art. His magazine contains critical reviews of published music and performances, new music notices, music news gathered from French, German,
English, and American papers, correspondence, essays in-depth, translations of French and German writings on music and art, notices concerning sculpture, painting, architecture, and portraits, original poems, anecdotes, and short tales. Dwight's writing was incisive and colorful; his opinions remarkably strong, yielding for today's reader significant insight into the upheavals of the music of the 19th century.
This low-cost reprint should help make the Journal more broadly accessible than it has been up to now.
8,528 pages.
Complete Microfiche Reprint......................$320.00
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