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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

John S. Dwight

musical critic journal founder
  • Dwight's Journal of Music
  • Oliver Ditson & Company

Biography

John S. Dwight was a well-known Boston musical critic who founded Dwight's Journal of Music in Boston in 1851. The semi-monthly publication, incidentally connected to music publishing, had a long run and was published by the music house of Oliver Ditson & Company, one of the notable early American musical journals contemporaneous with Henry C. Watson's various ventures.

Highlights

  • Founded Dwight's Journal of Music in Boston in 1851, published by Oliver Ditson & Company

Source

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 346.

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