Alfred Einstein on Music: Selected Music Criticisms
This collection is a tribute to the talent, teaching, and humanism of Alfred Einstein, whose scholarship and criticisms affirm his position as one of the foremost musicologists of the twentieth century. Written by a former student of Einstein's, this portrait draws on the influences and events that shaped his life and work as a Jewish scholar in pre-Nazi Germany and that necessitated his emigration to the United States. Dower provides more than one hundred examples of his criticisms that document the music of Germany and the United States in the second quarter of this century and that demonstrate the art of music criticism at its best.

Included is a chronology that is based on information provided by Einstein's daughter, Eva. Her insight into her father's personal life is combined with Catherine Dower's careful chronological documentation of Einstein's professional endeavors, provide a unique evaluation of a critic whose research produced valuable musical discoveries and whose writings always recognized the important relationship between music and its cultural background. The study affords further access to Einstein's writings by identifying the locations of Einstein collections in numerous libraries throughout the United States.

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Alfred Einstein on Music: Selected Music Criticisms
This collection is a tribute to the talent, teaching, and humanism of Alfred Einstein, whose scholarship and criticisms affirm his position as one of the foremost musicologists of the twentieth century. Written by a former student of Einstein's, this portrait draws on the influences and events that shaped his life and work as a Jewish scholar in pre-Nazi Germany and that necessitated his emigration to the United States. Dower provides more than one hundred examples of his criticisms that document the music of Germany and the United States in the second quarter of this century and that demonstrate the art of music criticism at its best.

Included is a chronology that is based on information provided by Einstein's daughter, Eva. Her insight into her father's personal life is combined with Catherine Dower's careful chronological documentation of Einstein's professional endeavors, provide a unique evaluation of a critic whose research produced valuable musical discoveries and whose writings always recognized the important relationship between music and its cultural background. The study affords further access to Einstein's writings by identifying the locations of Einstein collections in numerous libraries throughout the United States.

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Alfred Einstein on Music: Selected Music Criticisms

Alfred Einstein on Music: Selected Music Criticisms

by Catherine Gold
Alfred Einstein on Music: Selected Music Criticisms

Alfred Einstein on Music: Selected Music Criticisms

by Catherine Gold

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This collection is a tribute to the talent, teaching, and humanism of Alfred Einstein, whose scholarship and criticisms affirm his position as one of the foremost musicologists of the twentieth century. Written by a former student of Einstein's, this portrait draws on the influences and events that shaped his life and work as a Jewish scholar in pre-Nazi Germany and that necessitated his emigration to the United States. Dower provides more than one hundred examples of his criticisms that document the music of Germany and the United States in the second quarter of this century and that demonstrate the art of music criticism at its best.

Included is a chronology that is based on information provided by Einstein's daughter, Eva. Her insight into her father's personal life is combined with Catherine Dower's careful chronological documentation of Einstein's professional endeavors, provide a unique evaluation of a critic whose research produced valuable musical discoveries and whose writings always recognized the important relationship between music and its cultural background. The study affords further access to Einstein's writings by identifying the locations of Einstein collections in numerous libraries throughout the United States.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313273636
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/30/1991
Series: Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance , #21
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)
Lexile: 1260L (what's this?)

About the Author

CATHERINE DOWER is Professor Emerita in Music History at Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts. She is the author of Puerto Rican Music Following the Spanish-American War, and Yella Pessl, First Lady of the Harpsicord. Dr. Dower has also written numerous articles and music criticisms in local, national, international jourbanals and newspapers, and encyclopedias.

Table of Contents

Preface
Alfred Einstein (1880-1952): A Brief Biography
The Music Criticisms: A Unique Source
Einstein on Music—Selected Criticisms and Articles
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1951
Appendix I: (a) Miscellaneous Writings (b) Program Notes for Smith College
Appendix II: Music Criticisms by Alfred Einstein in New York Times
Appendix III: Bibliography of Works by Einstein
Bibliography
Index

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