The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Kobbé, Gustav

KOBBÉ, kŏb'bā, Gustav, American author and journalist: b. New York, 4 March 1857; d. 1918. He was graduated at Columbia University in 1877, and from its Law School in 1879, and received the degree of M.A. from this institution in 1880; was on the staff of the New York Sun in 1881, and correspondent of the New York World at the first performance of &lsquo;Parsifal&rsquo; at Bayreuth in 1882. As a journalist he has always specialized in music, drama and art, and since 1905 has been art critic of the New York Herald. His Wagner books (1889-90), after going through many editions, were combined in &lsquo;Wagner's Music-Dramas Analyzed&rsquo; (1904). Besides these and many magazine articles in the Century, the North American Review, the Forum, the Ladies' Home Journal, the Delineator, etc., he has published &lsquo;My Rosary and Other Poems&rsquo; (1896); &lsquo;Plays for Amateurs&rsquo; (1892); &lsquo;Miriam,&rsquo; a story (1898); &lsquo;Opera Singers&rsquo; (1901); &lsquo;Signora, a Child of the Opera House,&rsquo; a novel (1902); &lsquo;Famous Actors and Actresses and Their Homes&rsquo; (1903); &lsquo;Loves of the Great Composers&rsquo; (1905); &lsquo;Wagner and His Isolde&rsquo; (1905); &lsquo;Famous American Songs&rsquo; (1906); &lsquo;How to Appreciate Music&rsquo; (1906); &lsquo;The Pianolist&rsquo; (1907); &lsquo;A Tribute to the Dog&rsquo; (1911); &lsquo;Portrait Gallery of Great Composers&rsquo; (1911); &lsquo;Modern Women&rsquo; (1916). He was editor of the Lotus Magazine from 1909 to 1918.