A Vic­tor­i­an era jour­nal­ist, Chor­ley was for ma­ny years mu­sic cri­tic for the Athen­æ­um in Lon­don. He was al­so a book re­view­er, no­vel­ist, play­wright, and po­et. One of his best known piec­es was his obit­u­ary of Tur­ge­nev, mis­tak­en­ly writ­ten while the Russ­ian was still ve­ry much alive. Tur­ge­nev was not of­fend­ed by the er­ror near­ly as much as he was by the cri­tic­al opin­ions of his work ex­pressed in the obit­u­a­ry!

Hymns

1. God, the Omnipotent!