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Francis Hueffer, born Franz Hüffer (22 May 1845^[1] – 19 January 1889), was a German-English writer on music, music critic, and librettist.

Hueffer was born in Münster, Germany, and studied modern philology and music in London, Paris, Berlin, and Leipzig. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 1869 for a critical edition of the works of Guillem de Cabestant, a 12th-century troubadour.

He moved to London in 1869 as a writer on music, and from 1878 worked as music critic for The Times, succeeding James William Davison. He wrote a number of books on music, especially on music history and biography, edited the Great Musicians series for Novello & Co, and translated the correspondence of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt to English. He also wrote the libretti for several English operas: Alexander Mackenzie's Colomba and The Troubadour, and Frederic Hymen Cowen's Sleeping Beauty.

Hueffer's wife, Catherine (1850–1927), was the daughter of painter Ford Madox Brown and Emma Hill. Their son, Ford Madox Ford, was a noted writer.

[edit] Selected writings

Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future (1874) (Google Books)
The Troubadours: A History of Provençal Life and Literature in the Middle Ages (1878) (Google Books)
Musical Studies, a collection of his articles from The Times and Fortnightly Review (1880) (Google Books)
Wagner, in the Great Musicians series (1881) (Google Books)
Italian and Other Studies (1883) (Google Books)
Half a Century of Music in England (1889; 2nd ed. 1898) (Google Books)
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt (1889; as translator) (Project Gutenberg: vol. 1; vol. 2)

^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Baker's gives a date of birth of 23 May 1843

J. A. F. Maitland and John Warrack (2004). "Hueffer, Francis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 28. pp. p. 597.
Theodore Baker and Alfred Remy, ed (1919). "Hueffer, Francis". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (3rd edition ed.). pp. pp. 419–420. http://books.google.com/books?id=H2kNAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA419#PPA419,M1.

Hueffer, Francis. (1889). Half a Century of Music in England, 1837-1887: Essays Towards a History. Chapman & Hall (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108004725)
Hueffer, Francis. (1888). Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt. Grevel (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108004749)
Hueffer, Francis. (1881). Richard Wagner. Sampson Low (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108004756)
Hueffer, Francis. (1880). Musical Studies: A Series of Contributions. A & C Black (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108004732)
Hueffer, Francis. (1874). Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future: History and Aesthetics. Chapman and Hall (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108004749)