A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Pohl, Richard

by George Grove

POHL, DR. Richard, a German musical critic well known for his thoroughgoing advocacy of Wagner. We learn from M. Pougin's supplement to Fétis that he was born at Leipzig, Sept. 12, 1826, that he devoted himself to mathematics, and after concluding his course at Göttingen and Leipzig was elected to a professorial chair at Gratz. This he vacated for political reasons, and then settled at Dresden and Weimar as a musical critic. He is one of the editors of the 'Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik,' and a frequent contributor to the musical periodicals. He began his Autobiography in the 'Mus. Wochenblatt' for Dec. 30, 1880.

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