Theodor Helm
Austrian music critic and writer
Died when: 77 years 260 days (932 months)Star Sign: Aries
Theodor Otto Helm (9 April 1843 – 25 December 1920) was an Austrian music critic and writer.Theodor Otto Helm was a leading figure in Viennese musical life and a prominent music critic in Vienna for fifty years (1866–1916).
While Helm specialized in criticism of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, and Antonín Dvorák, he also wrote on younger composers including Béla Bartók, Gustav Mahler, and Arnold Schoenberg.
Heavily involved in the Vienna music scene, including the Wiener Akademischer Wagner Verein, Helm counted both Bruckner and Brahms as close acquaintances.
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