num_pages: 256
description: Follows the career of a prominent nineteenth-century British music critic whose biased and eccentric views led him to denounce Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz, Schubert, Schumann, and Liszt. With excerpts from his critical writings.
language: English
title: The Music Monster: A Biography of James William Davison, Music Critic of the Times of London, 1846-78
titlecomplete: The Music Monster: A Biography of James William Davison, Music Critic of the Times of London, 1846-78
publisher: Quartet Books Ltd