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525: 135: 27: 544: 339:, Dwight stepped into a trap. At a concert, Gottschalk claimed a Beethoven work as his own and identified one of his own as a Beethoven. When a hostile Dwight praised the wrong piece, the composer sent a note apologizing for the "printer’s error" in the program, but wryly thanking him for the praise. 283:
Brook Farm collapsed financially in 1847, but Dwight set up a cooperative house in Boston and began a career in musical journalism. He married singer Mary Bullard (daughter of Silas Bullard and Mary Ann Barrett) on February 11, 1851. In 1852, he founded
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communal living experiment, where he also taught music and organized musical and theatrical events. About this time he began writing a regular column on music.
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in 1848 and settled in Boston in 1852, the two "contributed singly and jointly to the shaping of American taste for the European classical tradition in music".
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His wife died September 6, 1860; they had no children. He died in Boston on September 5, 1893, and is buried at
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Horowitz, Joseph. Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005.
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through his paternal grandfather, John Dwight, Jr. (1740–1816). He graduated from
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John Sullivan Dwight: Brook-Farmer, Editor, and Critic of Music; A Biography
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Blum, Stephen. "Sources, Scholarship and Historiography" in the
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The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass
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in 1832 and then prepared for the Unitarian ministry at
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In his criticism of the contemporary American pianist
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