Books by Henry Fothergill Chorley

This three-volume book, first published in 1841, originated in a journal written by the music critic Chorley while travelling in Europe. His aim was to 'illustrate the present state of theatrical, orchestral, and chamber music abroad'. Volume 1 describes his visits to Paris and Brunswick, focusing on opera.

This is the first of two volumes originally published in 1862 in which the long-time music critic of The Athaneum gives a year-by-year commentary on the European operas, ballets, singers and dancers popular in London from 1830 to 1859. Volume 1 covers the period 1830-1847.

This two-volume survey of German music, from 1854, offers lively descriptions of the musical life of German cities, and extended essays on Spohr, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn, but Chorley is by no means an uncritical observer, noting with concern the rise of nationalism in Germany after 1848.