Francis Hueffer (1845 89) was born and studied music in Germany,
but moved to London in 1869 to pursue a career as a critic and
writer on music. He edited the series 'The Great Musicians' for
Novello and Co., was music critic of The Times, wrote libretti for
some now-forgotten operas, and was an early advocate and
interpreter to the British of Wagner. Between his Richard Wagner
and the Music of the Future (1874) and his translation of the
correspondence of Wagner and Liszt (1888), he wrote Wagner in his
own 'Great Musicians' series in 1881 (two years before the
composer's death). The book surveys Wagner's life and his musical
writings, and a separate chapter is devoted to each of the operas
(except Parsifal, which was not performed until 1882). This is a
fascinating contemporary assessment of the standard-bearer of the
'music of the future'.
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