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Julian Horton

British Music Criticism and Intellectual Thought 1850–1950 edited by Jeremy Dibble and Julian Horton

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April 2020, no. 420
Peter Tregear reviews 'British Music Criticism and Intellectual Thought 1850–1950' edited by Jeremy Dibble and Julian Horton

When the German social commentator Oscar A.H. Schmitz described England as ‘Das Land ohne Musik’ [The Country without Music], the insult stuck. Its veracity arose not because the English lacked a vibrant musical culture, or a lively intellectual class prepared to engage with what they were hearing. Rather, it was because Schmitz ...

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