De Koven, (Henry Louis) Reginald
(1859–1920)
De Koven, (Henry Louis) Reginald. Middletown, Connecticut, 3 April 1859 (not 1861) – Chicago, Illinois, 2 May 1920 At the age of 13 De Koven moved with his parents to England, where in 1879 he graduated from Oxford University. Later he studied in Stuttgart and Florence and was a pupil of Léo Delibes in Paris and Franz Suppé in Vienna. On his return to America in 1882 he earned his living as a music critic with the Chicago Evening Post (1989–99), Harper’s Weekly (1895–97), New York World…