Alfred Einstein on Music: Selected Music Criticisms - Hardcover

by Catherine Gold (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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 journals and newspapers, and encyclopedias.