J. S. Bach, Volume One " — Los Angeles Review

" — Los Angeles Review of Books

François Michaud's History of the Crusades

all in carefully detailed engravings

famous quotations

and other highly decorative designs — 800 in all — reproduced from an extremely rare mid-19th-century style book

J. S. Bach, Volume One " — Los Angeles ReviewIndependent of his international renown as a humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer is well known as a great musicologist; a reputation that rests largely upon this book. Schweitzer's J. S. Bach is one of the great full length studies of the composer, his life, and his work. Its influence on the subsequent performance of Bach's music was enormous, and there is scarcely a later work on Bach which does not acknowledge a deep debt to Schweitzer's. Grove's