ABSTRACT
Keller began his writing life in Britain amid a rapidly expanding musical press. Tempo, the journal to which his writing about Britten first led him, had been founded in 1939 as The Boosey & Hawkes Newsletter, and thus started life within an old tradition of music journals owned by publishing houses. Britain’s longest-running music periodicals of the time had similar roots, The Musical Times having been published by Novello since 1844, and Monthly Musical Record by Augener since 1871. A younger example was The Chesterian, founded by J.&W. Chester in 1915. Other long-established periodicals were similarly embedded in various branches of the music trade, such as Musical Opinion and Music Trade Review (founded in 1877), The Strad (founded in 1890) and – responding to the opportunities opened up by new technology – The Gramophone (founded in 1920).
