William James Henderson

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William James Henderson, A.M. (1855–1937) was an American musical critic and scholar, born at Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton in 1876 and immediately began work as a journalist, later as a reporter, then as the musical critic of "The New York Times", and in 1902 of "The New York Sun". He was appointed lecturer on musical history in the New York College of Music. He was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1914.

He published:
* "What is Good Music?" (1898)
* "How Music Developed" (1899)
* "The Orchestra and Orchestral Music" (1902)
* "Richard Wagmer" (1901)
* "Modern musical Drift" (1904)
* "The Art of the Singer" (1906)
* "Some Forerunners of Italian Opera" (1911) He published a novel, "The Soul of a Tenor" (1912).