[Ads-l] Antedating of "Musicologist"

[Shapiro, Fred]

musicologist (OED 1893)

1870 New York Herald 24 July 3/5 (Newspapers.com)

Neither in his earlier nor in his subsequent compositions had the colder among French musicologists succeeded in discovering any special aptitude for the lyric drama.

Fred Shapiro

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