The British Musical Biography

[E] Chorley, Henry Fothergill, musician,
journalist, general writer, etc., was born at
Blackley Hurst, near Billinge, Lancashire,
December 15th, 1808. Brought up for mer-
cantile life. Commenced connection with
the "Athenseum," 1830. Member of the
"Atheufeum " staff, 1833-1871. He died at
London, February 16, 1872.

[W] Works. — Sketches of a sea-port town, 3 vols.,
1835 (novel) ; Couti the discarded, a novel,
3 vols., 1835 ; Memorials of Mrs. Hemans,
2 vols., 1836; The Lion, a tale of the coteries,
3 vols., 1839 ; Music and manners in France
and Germany, 3 vols., London, 1841 ; Pom-
fret, a novel, 1845; Old love and new fortune,
a play, 1850 ; Modern German music, recollec-
tions and criticisms, London, 3 vols., 1854 ;
Roccabella, a novel, 1859 ; Thirty years'
musical recollections, London, 2 vols., 1862 ;
Prodigy, a tale of inusic, London, 3 vols.,
1866; Handel studies, 2 parts, 1859; National
music of the world, edited by H. G. Hewlett,
1880 ; Librettos for Wallace's Amber Witch ;
Bennett's May Queen, etc. ; Translations of
Mercadante's Elena da Feltre ; Cimarosa's
II Matrimonio segreto ; Harold's Zampa ;
Auber's Hayd6e ; Mendelssohn's Son and
Stranger, etc.

[+] Chorley was too many-sided ever to attain
great distinction in any one of the numerous
walks he attempted. His musical writings
possess greater literary merit than most of
the English work of the same period, but the
judgments formed in them, esi^ecially with
regard to Mendelssohn, have long since been
overturned. His " Autobiography, Memoir,
and Letters," edited by Henry G. Hewlett,
was published in London, 2 vols., 1873, with
a photograph.

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