This book brings a very high-classed and intelligent art form to a new level of acceptance and understanding. Mr. Neumann brings it home, as it were -- operas s...
“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.” –Ernest Newman
In Seventeen Famous Opera...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant mar...
ERNEST NEWMAN was born in 1868. Educated at Liverpool College and Liverpool University, he had intended to enter the Indian Civil Service, but when his health b...
A fantastic little book about Bach and the musical climate before and during his life, with a look at his continuing influence in music. Many of the earliest bo...
This is the second volume of Schweitzer's classic book about J. S. Bach. It covers Schweitzer's revolutionary (for its time) idea that Bach used a musical lexic...
Hailed as "very interesting and very stimulating" by The New York Times, this critical biography explores the life and music ofa supreme master of German song. ...
'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' – The Guardian
In 1931 the mat...
An accessible explanation of Kurt Gödel's groundbreaking work in mathematical logicIn 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidabl...