New-York tribune., 1921-02-10
]. e.. Hu11elxer.
Noted Music
Critic. Dies
Stricken Last Saturday, He
Succumbs to Pneumonia
in Just Four Days;
Was Sixty-one Years Old
Final Word Was of Duty
Caruso, Calli-Curci, Mary
Garden and Many Others
Shocked at His Death

PSSv'AiJ az ilo lbluc, lOiO b6NSllS
| Road Brooklyn, last evening. For
forty years his influence had been
felt in dramatic and musical affairs
Until the end of last week Mr.. /
Hunekor bad performed his customary
duties. He was stricken Saturday |
night. Pneumonia developed and he
died soon after he had fallen asleep
last night.
The loyalty he had always main
tained toward his profession was vivid |
ly portrayed in the last words he ut (
tered:
~ must get UP and go to the Office
and write my Sunday article 1 don't
want all the work to fall on Frank
Warren's shoulders" Mr.. Warren is
his colleague in the musical depart
ment Of The World
Artists and critics at the Metropoh-
tan and at the Manhattan Opera House,
who had known Mr.. Huneker for years,
received the news of his death with
sorrow, which cast a shadow over the
evening for them. Mary Garden fell
back in her chair in a box at the Man
haitian, shocked by the information.
81 am so overcome" she said, that
l do not care to make any statement
tonight"
Forty Years Critic
Mr. Huneker had just passed his
sixty-frst birthday. He was born in
Philadelphia, January 81, 1860. He
was of Austro- Hungarian descent on
lis fathers side while his mother was
daughter of James Gibbons, the Irish
agitator and poet, and also cousin of
Cardinal Gibbons.
He first studied at Roth's Military
Academy in Philadelphia and later
studied law for five years at the Law
Academy in his native city Following
this he went to Paris, Unere he studied
tho piano under Georges Matthias.
; Then for ten years ne was associated
with Rafael Josetfy as teacher of the
PIANO at the National Conservatory IN
this city.
1t was at the end of this period that
his long career as musical critic on
the metropolitan newspapers began, q
career that was interspersed with the
publication of numerous works on
music, as we'll as several romances and
volumes of essays. He was successive
: " music critic of the old New York
Recorder, The Morning Advertiser, The
SuN, L lDneS anu W OIiu
About three years ago he was music
: critic on The Philadelphia Press, and
+ during that time he published his auto
biography in series of articles under
the title of "Steeplejac He was an
: accomplished pianist. His critical work
was not confined to music, but at diff
= ferent times he had been dramatic and
: art critic.
+ His Earlier Works
0 His earlier published woE ks include
n "Mezzotints in Modern Music" "Over
c tones, Book of Temperaments"
. 'Tconoclasts, Book of Dramatists"
e "Egoists, Book of Supermen"; "Cho
= pin, the Man and His Music; "Melo
. maniacs," and Missionaries"
After the publication of Egotists in
1909, he followed with the "Prcme-
nades of an Impressionist' in 1910;
), Liszt 1911; The Pathos of Distance in
1918; Ivory Apes and Peacocks in 1915;
Z. New Cocmopolis in 1916; Unicorns in
t in 1917; Charles Beauclaire in 1919
j and Mary Garden, last year. His last
!. work before his death was Painted
l. Wells, published last year:
(. Mr.. Huneker went to Europe last
y summer with the intention of passing
e year there writing criticisms and
$. preparing new volumes he had in MIND
n After an absence of six weeks, how
T. ever, he returned and said he coulc
not stand the climate there. He had
: suffered several attacks of vertigo
st lately, the last of which occurred
shortly before he took to his bed.
: H He is survived oth by his his Wifg; IA a $ SON
of Philadelphia No funeral arrange
t ments had been made last night,
n In all quarters where the news o
Mr.. Huneker's death was heard las
:. night the utmost grief was expressed
n Stars of the opera and concert stage
managers and impresarios, brotha:
$ critics AID men and women of prom
"a nence in other arts paid tribute to Mr.
Huneker's lovable personality and ar
re tistic talents.
n, Fellow Critics Tribute
His brother critics sent the follow
s. ing signed letter to the editor of Th
ID World as an expression of their sorrow
"Not one of US who sign this lette
but has his duty to the public and him
er self to express a sense of personal los
ii, in the death of James Gibbon
!, Huneker. That duty each one of US vii
u u perform in his own way. Here and nov
)' we want only to make a comon utter
3 ance, prompted by feeling of dee
=; personal affection for our dead frienc
- addressed to the eyes and, we hope, tn
on hearts of the Worlds editors (his CO.
.r. leagues) and the Worlds readers
l-iss "The loss to them, however, is n
greater, can be no more poignant, tina
H. that to us individually and which W
v feel that literature in general an
as musical journalism in particular, ha
th sustained in his death"
The letter is signed by Henry !
oott Krehbiel, New York Tribune Henr
nd T. Finck, Evening Post; W. J. Hende1
nd son, New York Herald; Richard A
drich, New York Times; Charles Henr
Meltzer, Weekly Review; sylveste
s. Rawling, Evening World; Maurice Ha
b. person, Staats-Zettung; Max Smit
New York American; Pitts Sanbor
The Globe; W. B. Murray, Brookly
nv Eagle; G. w Gabriel The Sum- Pa
i3. Morris, The Evening telegram; Katl
/ crime Lane, The Evening Mail; Irvir
: 3, We'll, The Evening Journal, and A. Ba
lie ron, Jewish Daily News.
ew Caruso's Tribute
Or Enrico Caruso last night said:
Of II am shocked to hear that my de,
ma ma friend Huneker has passed away. Z
was most lovable character and