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The violin, 1900
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1LIFE OF MOZART
2By OTTO JAHN.
3TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY PAULINE D. TOWNSEND
4WITH FIVE PORTRAITS, AND PREFACE BY GEORGE GROVE, D.C.L.
5Three Volumes, Cloth, Price £1 11s. 6d.
7OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
9THE TIMES.
10"Mr. Grove, in his brief and able preface, calls the publication in an English dress of Otto Jahn's famous biography of Mozart 'an event in our musical history,' and his statement cannot be considered an exaggeration. . . . The English public is to be congratulated upon a translation of his monumental effort which may without exaggeration be called excellent. Miss Townsend has done her work with skill and conscientiousness, and we doubt whether a much more careful comparison with the original than we have thought it necessary to undertake would discover many, or any, serious blunders."
12"He (Jahn) has made admirable use of Nissen, with his laborious compilation, and of all other authorities, and he has succeeded in producing a work which is complete without being confusing through excess of detail, and in which the interest of the narrative has not been broken by undue reference to other writers who, treating of the same points, have treated them differently and have thought it necessary to undertake would discover many, or any, serious blunders."
14"It is with great pleasure that Miss Townsend has acquitted herself. Present it is almost inevitable that it is mostly of slight importance. Works in the whole domain of music it within reasonable bounds. We and need only add that the reputation of the firm which
16JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
17His Work and Character.
18Translated from the German, 1685-1750.
19A. FULLER-MAITLAND.
21"Of the translation we can have compared it, very faithful to the original, but it is thoroughly together an enormous mass of his book is a sterling work which and the publishers on having successfully completed the arduous task of presenting it in an English dress."
23"The enterprise of Messrs. Novello & Co. in placing these valuable translations (Jahn's Mozart and Spitta's Bach) before the public cannot be too highly appreciated; indeed, it can only be properly estimated by those who are familiar with the original works, and are acquainted with the extent to which they have influenced contemporary students of German musical literature. It may fairly be said that no one had the smallest conception of what there was to be told in connection with Mozart's life and artistic career until Jahn's great book saw the light. . . . But if this be true with regard to Jahn's Mozart, how much more palpably must it apply to Spitta's Bach. . . . Criticism on such a stupendous effort would be impertinent unless far more comprehensive than that which could be bestowed in the space at my disposal. It must suffice, therefore, to say that the work of translation has, so far, been accomplished by Miss Clara Bell and Mr. Fuller-Maitland in a manner that commands the highest praise, and that the volume is brought out in the handsome and faultless style for which Messrs. Novello's publications are deservedly famous."
25"DAILY CHRONICLE.
26"Herr Spitta dwells with the most minute and loving interest upon every point that can by any possibility help the full understanding of Bach's character. His parents, his home, and his contemporaries are studied, and the musical works of the latter analysed so as to show their influence upon the mind of his pupil. . . . The work is ably translated."
28LONDON & NEW YORK: NOVELLO, EWER & CO.
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