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The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], Death of a musical composer. (search)
rom 1846 to 1852 Mr. Fry was in Europe, corresponding with the New York Tribune and Philadelphia Ledger. On his return, he delivered a series of lectures on the history of music, introducing as illustrations two symphonies of his own composition, which were afterwards played with great success by Jullien's Orchestra in various parts of the country. Mr. Fry has also written an elaborate Stabat Maler, several string quartets, and other musical works. The latest and finest is the opera of "Notre Dame of Paris," produced with great spender in the Philadelphia Academy of Music last May. As a writer for the New York Tribune, of which he was one of the proprietors, as a public lecturer and a political orator, Mr. Fry has been very widely known. His mind was most original, and his style was at times eccentric. But everything he wrote showed genius, and under certain circumstances, he would have made his mark as one of the great men of the nation. But his pursuits and his ambition were n