German musical critic and Provençal scholar, born at Münster, Westphalia, in 1845; studied at Berlin, Leipsic and Paris, and settled in London in 1869. He soon became an authority on music, was musical critic of the Times, and was recognized as the champion in Britain of Wagner and Wagnerian music at the time when the Wagnerian controversy was at its height. In 1869 he edited the works of the Provençal poet Guillem de Cabestan, 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 Musician Series, in 1881. He died on the 19th of January 1889. (See authored articles: Giovanni Boccaccio, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von Gluck, George Frideric Handel.)
