Hueffer

Hueffer, FRANCIS, musical critic and Provençal scholar, was born at Münster, in Westphalia, in 1845, studied at Berlin, Leipzig, and Paris, and settled in London in 1869. He soon became an authority on music, was musical critic of the Times, and was recognised as the champion in Britain of Wagner and Wagnerian music. In 1869 he edited the Provençal poet Guillem de Cabestanh, and in 1878 published The Troubadours: a History of Provençal Life and Literature in the Middle Ages. Two works on Wagner were from his pen—one in 1874, the other in the 'Great Musicians' series, in 1881. He died January 19, 1889.