DWIGHT

dwight, john sullivan (1813-1893), american writer on music, was born at boston and educated at harvard. he became a unitarian minister, but abandoned this career and joined the brook farm settlement as a teacher of music and other subjects. in 1848 he settled as a musical critic at boston, being best known as founder and editor of the _journal of music_ (1852-1881), the most important musical periodical that has been published in america. he died on the 5th of september 1893. g.w. cooke edited his letters (1898) and also wrote a memoir (1899).