Krehbiel, Henry Edward

1854-

Celebrated American musical critic, writer on musical and other topics and lecturer. Has done much to advance modern music in this country. He was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan, receiving his preliminary education in that state and in Ohio. He studied law at Cincinnati, but gave it up for literary pursuits and musical journalism. He became the musical critic of the Cincinnati Gazette in 1874, a position which he held for six years. Then went to New York, where he became the editor of the Musical Review and the critic of music for the New York Tribune, a position which he still holds. In 1896 he married Marie Van. In 1900 he was a member of the International Jury of Awards at the Paris Exposition, and the next year was made a member of the Legion of Honor. He devotes part of his time to lecturing and does much valuable writing aside from his newspaper work, his articles appearing in many of the leading magazines. His works are An Account of the Fourth Cincinnati Musical Festival in 1880; Notes on the Cultivation of Choral Music and the Oratorio Society of New York; Review of the New York Seasons from 1885 to 1890, in five volumes; Studies in the Wagnerian Drama; The Philharmonic Society of New York; How to Listen to Music; and Music and Manners in the Classical Period. He has also translated The Technic of Violin Playing, by Carl Courvoisier; and edited an Annotated Bibliography of the Fine Arts; and Lavignac's Music and Musicians. Mr. Krehbiel's influence in introducing the Wagner music-drama in America has been valuable, and he was among the first of the critics to appreciate Brahms, Dvorak and Tschaikowsky. He has assisted in the  arrangement of many New York musical events, and has done much to stimulate study of the music of the North American Indians and the black slaves of the Southern States.