Albert Schweitzer and Alice Ehlers - A Friendship in Letters

Albert Schweitzer, the philosopher, theologian, physician, biographer of J. S. Bach and musician, and Alice Ehlers, the harpsichordist and great Bach interpreter, met as musicians. This book makes available for the first time a selection of letters these two great personalities exchanged between the years of 1928 and 1965. Although music is the main subject of these letters during the early period of their relationship, the letters increasingly deal with their personal and professional lives. Later letters reveal the help Ehlers rendered Schweitzer's hospital through benefit concerts, Schweitzer's concern for the future of his hospital, and his happiness with the growing world-wide acceptance of his ethical ideas. Schweitzer's last letter was written only months before his death.

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By Kurt Bergel and Alice R. Bergel

Summary

Albert Schweitzer and Alice Ehlers met as musicians. This book comprises a selection of letters they exchanged between the years of 1928 and 1965. Although music is the main subject of these letters, particularly the early ones, they also deal with their personal and professional lives.

Product details

• Authors: Alice R Bergel, Alice R. Bergel, Kurt Bergel, Bergel Alice R., Bergel Kurt, Albert Schweitzer
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.1991
• EAN: 9780819183279
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-8327-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)