1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Dwight, John Sullivan

DWIGHT, JOHN SULLIVAN (1813–1893), American writer on music, was born at Boston and educated at Harvard. He became a Unitarian minister, but abandoned this career and joined the Brook Farm settlement as a teacher of music and other subjects. In 1848 he settled as a musical critic at Boston, being best known as founder and editor of the Journal of Music (1852–1881), the most important musical periodical that has been published in America. He died on the 5th of September 1893.

G. W. Cooke edited his letters (1898) and also wrote a memoir (1899).