Music Critic

This page lists 1,368 biographies of music critics, covering lives from AD 4 to 2000. Featuring Alex Ross, Charles-Marie Widor and Enrique Iturriaga. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Ludwig Karpath

1866 – 1936

Mary Miller

b. 1948

Peter G. Davis

1936 – 2021

Ian Penman

b. 1959

Joel Selvin

b. 1950

Chris Handyside

Desmond Shawe-Taylor

1907 – 1995

Anil Prasad

Peter Heyworth

1921 – 1991

Jaan Uhelszki

b. 1901

Pierre Lalo

1866 – 1943

Mrs Carl Fischer

1834 – 1896

Derek Ansell

1934 – 2024

Paul Hume

1915 – 2001

Chet Flippo

1943 – 2013

Noël Goodwin

1927 – 2013

Kim Young-dae

1977 – 2025

Felix Aprahamian

1914 – 2005

Jim Malec

Roger Covell

1931 – 2019

R. J. Buckley

1847 – 1938

Hisato Aikura

1931 – 2015

Isabel Morse Jones

1892 – 1951

Ted Panken

Ivan March

1928 – 2018

Warren Zanes

Peter Jones

1930 – 2015

Ruth Scott Miller

1895 – 1984

Ken Hunt

b. 1951

Philip Hope-Wallace

1911 – 1979

Michelangelo Zurletti

1937 – 2026

Henry Neville Montagu

1823 – 1901

Anne Midgette

b. 1965

Emilie Frances Bauer

1865 – 1926

Heinrich Lindlar

1912 – 2009

Richard Freed

1928 – 2022

Harrison Ridley Jr.

1938 – 2009

William Sanders

1867 – 1955

Shirley Fleming

1929 – 2005

Robert Baxter

1940 – 2010

Roger Nichols

b. 1939

James T. Jones IV

1901 – 1996

Mary Watkins Cushing

1889 – 1974

Suzy Exposito

b. 1989

Jeremy John Beadle

1956 – 1995

Kieran Press-Reynolds

b. 2000

T. B. Narasimhachar

1915 – 1988

Motoo Ōtaguro

1893 – 1979

Charles Lewis Gruneisen

1806 – 1879

Casey Rae

b. 1974

Gerald Early

b. 1952

Fiona Maddocks

Ashley Kahn

b. 1960

Robert Duncan

b. 1952

Doreen St. Félix

b. 1993

Joseph McLellan

1929 – 2005

Alexander Waugh

1963 – 2024

Martin Cooper

1910 – 1986

Richard Dyer

1941 – 2024

Hanif Abdurraqib

b. 1983

Jochen Breiholz

b. 1901

Claude Samuel

1931 – 2020

Laurence Cane-Honeysett

b. 2000

Lou Stathis

1952 – 1997

James R. Oestreich

b. 1943

Ametist Azordegan

b. 1980

B. H. Haggin

1900 – 1987

Molly Meldrum

b. 1943

John Cargher

1919 – 2008

Arthur Eaglefield Hull

1876 – 1928

Barbara Gardner Proctor

1933 – 2018

Samuel Langford

1863 – 1927

William Ayrton

1777 – 1858

George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950

Mahmoud Khoshnam

1935 – 2021

Ferdinand Luib

1811 – 1877

Tim Page

b. 1954

Adam Sweeting

Peter Margasak

Louise Spizizen

1928 – 2010

Adam Block

1951 – 2008

Armond White

b. 1953

Stephen Deusner

Raymond D. Bowman

1917 – 2001

Jack Skurnick

1910 – 1952

Scott Yanow

b. 1957

Joshua Kosman

b. 1959

Hidekazu Yoshida

1913 – 2012

Dave Marsh

1950 – 2026

Alan Goldsher

Geoffrey Norris

b. 1947

Ronald Hambleton

1917 – 2015

Sami Shah

b. 1978

Adolfo Salazar

1890 – 1958

Xavier Valiño

b. AD 4

Paul Cashmere

Richard Morrison

b. 1901

Ron Wynn

Brett Milano

b. 1957

Kirill Veselago