Richard Aldrich

Richard Aldrich (July 31, 1863 – June 2, 1937) was an American music critic. From 1902–23, he was music critic for The New York Times.

Personal life In 1906, he was married to Margaret Livingston Chanler, daughter of John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877) of the Dudley–Winthrop family and Margaret Astor Ward (1838–1875) of the Astor family. They had two children, a daughter and a son: She later married Byron DeMott (d. 1963). Richard Chanler Aldrich (1909-1961), who married Susan Cutler (d. 1998), the daughter of John Wilson Cutler and Rosalind (née Fish) Cutler, and the granddaughter of Hamilton Fish II.

Aldrich died on June 2, 1937, in Rome, Italy.

Publications Guide to Parsifal (Ditson, 1904) Guide to the Ring of the Nibelung (Ditson, 1905) Translator of Lilli Lehmann's How to Sing (Macmillan 1912) Musical Discourse (1928) Concert Life in New York 1902–1923 (1941)