Louis Charles Elson

Louis Charles Elson (April 17, 1848 – February 14, 1920) was an American music historian, critic, writer, journalist, and professor of music theory at the New England Conservatory. He was a leading music critic in Boston alongside William Foster Apthorp and Philip Hale, and his most significant work is "The History of American Music" (1904). Though he was also a singer and composer, he achieved only modest success in those roles.