The Mentor: Makers of Modern Opera, Vol. 1, Num. 47, Serial No. 47

Henry Edward Krehbiel

1854–1923

A leading American music critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he spent more than four decades shaping musical taste through his writing for the New York Tribune. He was also a serious music historian whose books helped explain opera, folk music, and symphonic traditions to a broad public.