Music in the Life of Albert Schweitzer

Medizin- und Pharmazie / Medizingeschichte / Albert Schweitzer


Joy, Charles R.
Selections from his writings
Edited by Charles R. Joy

Signatur: M002-B680-D001-A011
Autor: Joy, Charles R.
Buchart: Hardcover
Verlag: Adam and Charles Black, London (Großbritannien)
Veröffentlichung: 2024
Auflage: 1.Auflage (British, Revised)
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 279
Format: gr. 8°
Größe (HxBXT): 22,7 x 14,5 cm x 2,4 cm
Music in the Life of Albert Schweitzer
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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
0. Preface by Charles Munch; 0. Editor's Foreword; I. First Beginnings (My First Concert; My First Organ Teacher); II. Widor's Pupil (The Story of the Church at St. William); III. Vocation and Avocation (The Choir in Paris; My Recollections of Cosima Wagner); IV. Bach: The Musician-Poet (The Chorale in Bach's Work; The Life and Character of Bach: 1. Bach and His Family; 2. Bach's Position and Duties at Leipzig; 3. The Amiability and Modesty of Bach; 4. Concert Tours; Criticism and Friends; 5. The Self-Taught Man and the Philosopher; 6. Bach's Piety; 7. Bach's Apperance); The Symbolism of Bach); V. Organs and Organ Building (The Art of Organ Building and Oragn Playing in Germany and France); VI. Medicine, Theology and Music (Marie-Joseph Erb; Sigfried Ochs); VII. Africa; VIII. The Revolution in Organ Building (The 1927 Epilogue; Reform in Organ Building); IX. The Round Violin Bow; X. Records for the World; XI. The Musician at Seventy-Eight

Appendix: 1. The Questionaire on Organ Construction; 2. The Organ that Europe Wants; Index



Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"The name of Albert Schweitzer is linked with my childhood. It brings bach recollections of wonderful evenings, when I heard him passionately discussing with my father every detail in a score by Bach, after they had worked together performing it. […]"