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 20th century. Written by a former student of Einstein's and based partly on information provided by Einstein's ...
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 20th century. Written by a former student of Einstein's and based partly on information provided by Einstein's daughter, Eva, this study furnishes a unique portrait of a critic whose research produced valuable musical discoveries, and whose writings always recognized the important relationship between music and its cultural background. The work features more than a hundred examples of his criticisms which both document early 20th century music in Germany and the United States and demonstrate music criticism at its best.