Francis Hueffer

Francis Hueffer, born Franz Hüffer (22 May 1845 ["Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"; "Baker's" gives a date of birth of 23 May 1843] – 19 January 1889), was a German-English writer on music, music critic, and librettist.

Hueffer was born in Münster, Germany, and studied modern philology and music in London, Paris, Berlin, and Leipzig. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 1869 for a critical edition of the works of Guillem de Cabestant, a 12th-century troubadour.

He moved to London in 1869 as a writer on music, and from 1878 worked as music critic for "The Times", succeeding James William Davison. He wrote a number of books on music, especially on music history and biography, edited the "Great Musicians" series for Novello & Co, and translated the correspondence of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt to English. He also wrote the libretti for several English operas: Alexander Mackenzie's "Colomba" and "The Troubadour", and Frederic Hymen Cowen's "Sleeping Beauty".

Hueffer's wife, Catherine (1850–1927), was the daughter of painter Ford Madox Brown and Emma Hill. Their son, Ford Madox Ford, was a noted writer.

elected writings

* "Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future" (1874) [http://books.google.com/books?id=-B45AAAAIAAJ (Google Books)]
* "The Troubadours: A History of Provençal Life and Literature in the Middle Ages" (1878) [http://books.google.com/books?id=I6UaAAAAMAAJ (Google Books)]
* "Musical Studies", a collection of his articles from "The Times" and "Fortnightly Review" (1880) [http://books.google.com/books?id=5y8DAAAAQAAJ (Google Books)]
* "Wagner", in the "Great Musicians" series (1881) [http://books.google.com/books?id=2ek5AAAAIAAJ (Google Books)]
* "Italian and Other Studies" (1883) [http://books.google.com/books?id=w6EIAAAAQAAJ (Google Books)]
* "Half a Century of Music in England" (1889; 2nd ed. 1898) [http://books.google.com/books?id=vx8DAAAAYAAJ (Google Books)]
* "Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt" (1889; as translator) (Project Gutenberg: [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3835 vol. 1] ; [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4234 vol. 2] )

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