George Putnam Upton (18341919) was an American journalist and author.
Biography
George Putnam Upton was born in
Roxbury, Massachusetts
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on October 25, 1834.
He took an
MA at
Brown University
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in 1854, and soon after started writing for newspapers in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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. In 1862, Upton became the music critic for the ''
Chicago Tribune
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''.
He became the senior editor at the ''Tribune'' in 1881 and remained in the post until 1905. A. C. McLurg & Co. published several of his books.
He married Sara E. Bliss in 1861. He remarried to Georgiana S. Wood on September 21, 1880.
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Upton died from pneumonia at his home in Chicago on May 19, 1919.]Oak Woods Cemetery
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Select bibliography
*
The standard oratorios: their stories, their music, and their composers; a handbook
' (1866)
*''Letters of Peregrine Pickle'' (1869)
*''Woman in music'' (1880)
*''The standard operas, their plots and their music'' (1885)
*''The standard operas: their plots, their music, and their composers'' (1886)
*''The standard cantatas; their stories, their music, and their composers; a handbook'' (1887)
*''The standard symphonies, their history, their music, and their composers; a handbook'' (1888)
*'' Theodore Thomas: A Musical Autobiography'' (editor) (1905)
*''Musical memories : my recollections of celebrities of the half century, 1850-1900'' (1908)
*''The standard concert guide'' (1909)
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1834 births
1919 deaths
19th-century American journalists
Brown University alumni
American male journalists
19th-century American male writers
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American male writers
American music critics