Bücher von Henry Fothergill Chorley

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This three-volume book, first published in 1841, originated in a journal written by the music critic Chorley while travelling in Europe. His aim was to 'illustrate the present state of theatrical, orchestral, and chamber music abroad'. Volume 1 describes his visits to Paris and Brunswick, focusing on opera.

This is the first of two volumes originally published in 1862 in which the long-time music critic of The Athaneum gives a year-by-year commentary on the European operas, ballets, singers and dancers popular in London from 1830 to 1859. Volume 1 covers the period 1830-1847.

Henry Fothergill Chorley made his name as music journalist for The Athanaeum from 1830 until his retirement in 1868. He published weekly reviews of concerts as well as gossip on musicians and composers of the day. This book is based on four lectures presented by the author at the Royal Institution in 1862, and edited after his death by Henry Hewlett. It outlines the development of the different traditions and cultures of music across the world and how western classical composers were inspired and influenced by them. It contains many musical illustrations, drawn particularly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (for example, the fashionable so-called 'Turkish' music by composers including Mozart and Rossini). The book, though idiosyncratic and full of sweeping generalisations, conveys the spirit of its time and the lively character of its author. It will appeal to all those interested in the Victorian reception of world music.

This two-volume survey of German music, from 1854, offers lively descriptions of the musical life of German cities, and extended essays on Spohr, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn, but Chorley is by no means an uncritical observer, noting with concern the rise of nationalism in Germany after 1848.