“Keenly alert features, a sharp eye — more like a banker or statesman than a musician”: American critic and Musical Courier editor-in-chief Leonard Liebling meets with Florent Schmitt in Paris (1932).

In the summer of 1932, the American music critic Leonard Liebling, longtime editor-in-chief of the weekly national publication Musical Courier, sat down with Florent Schmitt in Paris, four months prior to Schmitt’s first (and only) trip to the United States, for a meet-and-greet conversation. Mr. Liebling’s impressions of the French composer were published in the […]