Chorley

Chorley, HENRY FOTHERGILL, musical critic, was born at Blackley Hurst, in Lancashire, 15th December 1808, and was educated in Liverpool. He became a member of the staff of the Atheneum in 1833, and soon had entire charge of the musical department, from which he retired in 1868; he contributed also very many literary reviews. He published some half-dozen artificial and unsuccessful romances, three acted dramas, and some graceful verse; but it is by his Music and Manners in France and Germany (1841) and his charming Thirty Years' Musical Recollections (1862) that his name is best known to the reading public. He held very decided opinions in music (hostile to Berlioz and Wagner), and expressed them uncompromisingly; and his insight was perhaps discriminating rather than profound. He died 16th February 1872. See the Autobiography, Memoir, and Letters, edited by H. G. Hewlett (1873).