Gustav Kobbe A. M. (1857-1918) was an American music critic and author, born in New York. When ten years old, he was sent to Wiesbaden, Germany to study composition and the piano with Adolf Hagen. Following five years of study in Germany, he returned to New York for additional study under Joseph Mosenthal. Afterward, he graduated from Columbia College in 1877 and two years later from Columbia Law School. He is best remembered for his posthumously published Complete Opera Book (1919/22/33). He wrote for magazines and newspapers, becoming music critic of the New York Herald. He published The Ring of the Nibelung (1889), Wagner's Life and works (two volumes, 1890), New York and its Environs (1891), Plays for Amateurs (1892), My Rosary, and Other Poems (1896), Miriam (1898), Wagner's Music-Dramas Analyzed (1904), Opera Singers (1905/13), Famous American Songs (1906), Portrait Gallery of Great Composers (1911), A Tribute to the Dog-Including the Famous Tribute by Senator Vest (1910/11) and...

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