Excerpt from Leo Ornstein: The Man His Ideas, His WorkOrnstein, that he has an acquaintance at first hand with the composer's aims and aspirations, that the latter has played much of his music for him under intimately favor able conditions which has prompted the following pages, but the conviction that a study of the man, his ideas and his work would be of value in correcting false impressions regarding the composer, his ideals and their practical expression.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.