A History Of Music In Pictures

London / New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. Very Good. 1930. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized book. The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing and wear. There is some light fraying to the spine ends and corners as well. The book covers have several small spots of ground-in dirt and discoloration. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. "Kinsky began his career as an antiquarian books dealer, becoming the assistant of Albert Kopfermann at the Berlin State Library in 1908. He gained his PhD in 1925 in Cologne, writing his thesis about wind instruments. He became Privatdozent of musicology at the University of Cologne, teaching from 1921 to 1932, and curator of the Wilheim Heyer Museum of Music History. Kinsky was an acknowledged specialist of musical instruments and their history and had written the 1910-1916 catalogue of the museum. Being the son of a Jewish businessman, Kinsky was persecuted by the Nazis, which lead to the forced termination of his career as an academic, and the forced possession of his private library and collection. Kinsky then served a year in a labour camp until 1945, with the Allied Victory of World War Two. Kinsky spent the rest of his life from 1945 onwards compiling Das Werk Beethovens, a thematic index of all of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Although Kinsky died before finishing the work, the unfinished volume was purchased by the Bavarian State Library, and was eventually completed by musicologist Hans Halm. " (from Wikipedia) .