biography
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Huneker, James Gibbons
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| lived:
| (1860–1921)
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| biography:
| Critic and musician, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Switching from law to musical studies, he became a teacher at the National Conservatory of Music in New York City (1886–98). Meanwhile, in 1887 he had begun to write for the Musical Courier, and continued to write for a series of newspapers and periodicals until his death, broadening his subjects to include drama, art, literature, and the cultural scene in general. He also published over a dozen books, including some serious studies of musicians, including Chopin: The Man and His Music (1900), but mostly wide-ranging commentaries, such as Ivory, Apes and Peacocks (1915). In his day he was greatly admired for his keen wit, erudition, iconoclasm, and brilliant style - an American G B Shaw, but his tastes in art remained conservative and later generations found his prose old fashioned. |
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