John Sullivan Dwight, 1813–1893

John Sullivan Dwight was a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, a Unitarian minister, and a member of the Transcendental Club.  He joined the Brook Farm community in 1841 and was noted for the music criticism he published in the Fourierist Harbinger (1845–1848) and in his own Dwight’s Journal of Music (1852–1881).  A musician as well as a Transcendentalist, he became a flute and piano instructor whose criticism is prized by musicologists today as our primary source for the history of music in New England during the nineteenth century.