Herbert Kupferberg (1918 – February 22, 2001) was an American

music critic ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...

and senior editor of ''

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''.Sarasota Herald-Tribune: At Death of Herbert Kupferberg, February 28, 2001. Access date: September 13, 2016
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Career

Kupferberg earned master's degree in English and journalism from Columbia University. For more than twenty years, he was an editor and critic for the ''

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''. After its demise in 1966, he joined Parade. He also wrote reviews for '' The Atlantic'' and the '' National Observer''.

Writing

He published several books, including ''Those Fabulous Philadelphians: The Life and Times of a Great Orchestra'' (1970) and ''Amadeus: A Mozart Mosaic'' (1986). Other books include: * ''The Mendelssohns: Three Generations of Genius'', 1972 * ''Felix Mendelssohn: His Life, His Family, His Music'', 1972 * ''A Rainbow of Sound: The Instruments of the Orchestra and Their Music'', with

Morris Warman Morris Warman (December 25, 1918 – April 16, 2010) was an American photographer. His pictures often appeared on the front page of the ''New York Herald Tribune'', where he was a staff photographer from 1943 to 1966. His work in photojournalis ...

's photographs, 1973 * ''Tanglewood'', 1976 * ''Opera'', 1979 * ''Basically Bach: A 300th Birthday Celebration'', 1985 * ''Book of Classical Music Lists'', 1988

Death

On February 22, 2001, Kupferberg died aged 83 in New York City. He was survived by his wife, Barbara; two sons, Seth and Joel; a daughter, Natalie; and four grandchildren.

References

External links

''New York Times'' obituary
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