Congratulations to Dr. Bill Faucett on his new book
Congratulations to Dr. Bill Faucett on the upcoming release of his new book from Oxford University Press, John Sullivan Dwight: The Life and Writings of Boston鈥檚 Musical Transcendentalist.
From the publisher:
John Sullivan Dwight (1813-93) was, for much of the nineteenth century, America's leading music critic. Born into a musical family and educated at several premier Boston schools, he fell under the spell of New England Transcendentalism and befriended Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, and others of a similarly progressive mindset.
By charting Dwight's relationships with other writers, musicians, and thinkers, as well as his evolution into a powerful and persuasive writer in his own right, this book situates his story in its nineteenth century and Transcendental contexts and provides the first thorough account of music and the arts at Brook Farm. Dwight's enormous body of essays, reviews, translations, correspondence, and other various writings are illuminated in this biography and reveal the indelible influence Dwight's Journal had on music criticism--the impacts of which resonate today.
Dr. Faucett is also the author of Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852-1918 and George Whitefield Chadwick: The Life and Music of The Pride of New England, among other volumes.
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