John Sullivan Dwight
1813–93
American music critic. Graduated from Harvard College, 1832; Harvard Divinity School, 1836. His views on music were based on a combination of associationist philosophy and transcendentalism. Founded Dwight’s Journal of Music in 1852; sole editor until 1881.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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