Dwight's Journal of Music (1852–1881, DJM) was an American music journal, one of the most respected and influential such periodicals in the country in the mid-19th century. John Sullivan Dwight

John Sullivan Dwight

John Sullivan Dwight was a Unitarian minister, transcendentalist and America's first influential classical music critic.-Biography:...

 created the Journal, and published it in Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. Among the early writers was Alexander Wheelock Thayer

Alexander Wheelock Thayer

Alexander Wheelock Thayer , was a librarian and journalist who became the author of the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, still after many updatings regarded as a standard work of reference on the composer.-Life:Originally a librarian at Harvard law school, Thayer became aware of...

, who would become one of the first major music historians in the country. Other contributors have included John Knowles Paine

John Knowles Paine

John Knowles Paine , was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music.-Life:He studied organ, orchestration, and composition in Germany and toured in Europe for three years...

, William F. Apthorp

William F. Apthorp

William Foster Apthorp was a musician.He was born in 1848 and graduated from Harvard College, where he studied piano, harmony, and counterpoint with the institution’s first professor of music, the composer John Knowles Paine...

, W. S. B. Mathews and C. H. Brittan.

The Journal was eventually purchased by music publisher Oliver Ditson

Oliver Ditson

Oliver Ditson was an American businessman and founder of Oliver Ditson and Company, one of the major music publishing houses of the late 19th century. Ditson began his business with Samuel H...

.

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41 Volumes of the Journal were published in book form. Public domain scans are available online in most cases, although some volumes still have to be scanned.

• 1853 v1 Volumes I & II (Sat Apr 10, 1852 is first issue) weekly. Not yet acquired, but available from Google Books
• 1854 v2 Volumes III & IV (Not yet acquired)
• 1855 v3 Volumes V & VI v3 v3dup1
• 1856 v4 Volumes VII & VIII v4 v4dup1
• 1857 v5 Volumes IX & X v5 v5dup1
• 1858 v6 Volumes XI & XII v6
• 1859 v7 Volumes XIII & XIVv7
• 1860 V8 Volumes XV & XVI (Not yet acquired)
• 1861 v9 Volumes XVII & XVIII v9
• 1862 v10 Volumes XIX & XX v10
• 1863 v12 Volumes XXI & XXII (Not yet acquired)
• 1865 v13 Volumes XXIII & XXIV v13
• 1867 v14 Volumes XXV & XXVI v14
• 1869 v15 Volumes XXVII & XXVIII (Not yet acquired)
• 1871 v16 Volumes XXIX & XXX v16
• 1873 v17 Volumes XXXI & XXXII v17
• 1875 v18 Volumes XXXIII & XXXIV v18
• 1877 v19 Volumes XXXV & XXXVI v19
• 1878 v20 Volumes XXXVII & XXXVIII v20 v20dup1 v20dup2
• 1880 v21 Volumes XXXIX & XL v21 v21dup1
• 1881 v22 Volume XL1 (Sat Sep 3, 1881 is last issue)