Albert Schweitzer
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Leipzig: Veb Breitkopf & Hartel Musikverlag, 1969. "Vorrede von Charles Marie Widor." 922 pages.
Volume is bound in brown cloth, with gilt-lettered green spine label and facsimile of Bach signature stamped in gold on front cover. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Work is illustrated with double-sided plates.
This is a new edition of a work by theologian, philosopher and organist Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) that was originally published in French under the title "J. S. Bach: le musicien-poete" in 1905, then in rewritten by Schweitzer for the German edition of 1908, when in appeared simply as "J. S. Bach." This book was translated into English by the celebrated English music critic and musicologist Ernest Newman three years later. Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher.