George P. Upton

George Putnam Upton (1834–1919) was an American journalist and music critic. Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, he moved to Chicago in the 1850s and spent most of his career at the Chicago Tribune, where he served as war correspondent during the Civil War, music critic and editorial writer. He wrote popular handbooks on the standard operas, oratorios, cantatas and symphonies, which introduced generations of concertgoers to the repertoire, and translated biographies of composers from German.