There was great demand for a German edition, but, instead of translating it, he decided to rewrite it. The result was two volumes (J. S. Bach), which were published in 1908 and translated into English by Ernest Newman in 1911. Ernst Cassirer, a contemporaneous German philosopher, called it "one of the best interpretations" of Bach.
There was high demand for a German edition of the work, but instead of translating it, he chose to rewrite it. This resulted in two volumes (J. S. Bach) published in 1908 and translated into English by Ernest Newman in 1911. Ernst Cassirer, a contemporary philosopher from Germany, considered this one of the best interpretations of Bach's work.