‎Biography‎

‎Davenport, William W‎

‎Gyro!: The life and times of Lawrence Sperry‎

‎New York: Scribners 1978. 348pp/illus. 'Biography of one of the most extraordinary men in aviation history Lawrence Sperry mechanical genius and fearless pilot began his career at the age of 18 when he built his own full-size glider - in his family's house! He went on to invent the turn-and-bank indicator the automatic pilot and retractable landing gear all still used today and he perfected the aerial torpedo. He risked his life again and again for inventions that were to alter the course of aviation history.' Clean Excellent condition. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Scribners Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 011705 ISBN : 0684157934 9780684157931

‎Davenport, Kathlyn‎

‎Some Oldham Times‎

‎Book in mint unread condition. 38pp. Extremely scarce. The author tells her story and that of her immediate ancestors over the latter years of the nineteenth and earlier years of the twentieth centuries in Oldham in Lancashire.‎

‎Davenport, Marcia‎

‎Mozart‎

‎400p. illus. Hardcover good condition Inscribed on flyleaf with long note by baritone John Langstaff‎

‎Davenport, Walter.‎

‎POWER & GLORY. THE LIFE OF BOIES PENROSE.‎

‎240 p. + Illustrations. Age stained. Inked ownership of Richard Yost on first fly leaf. Uncut. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, spine faded. Power politics in Pennsylvania and the nation. PA 17‎

‎DAVET Michel.‎

‎La Margrave de Bayreuth ou La cour pétaudière de Frédéric 1er de Prusse.‎

‎Paris, Plon-Nourrit, 1937. In-12, demi-percaline rouge, couvertures et dos conservés, 247 pp.‎

‎Davey, Peter‎

‎The Vale of Health (Signed By Author)‎

‎Signed by author on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 320pp. The genius and the life of poet James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), originally from Hampstead's Vale of Health who later settled in Suffolk.‎

‎David A. Sohn, Richard H. Tyre‎

‎Frost The poerand his poetry‎

‎Pagine leggermente ingiallite dal tempo con occasionali illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo. Volume in lingua inglese. Copertina in cartoncino morbido illustrata mostrante lievi segni di usura da scaffale con conseguenti abrasioni e macchioline di decolorazione ai bordi ed a ridosso del dorso. Numero pagine 134. USATO‎

‎David Abulafia‎

‎Federico II Un imperatore medievale‎

‎Volume n. 129 della Einaudi tascabili, saggi. Titolo originale dell'opera Frederick II. A medieval emperor, traduzione di Gianluigi Mainardi. Brossura in cartoncino, illustrata in copertina, leggermente brunita e segnata dal tempo, con alcune piccole fioriture. Pagine ingiallite, come pure i tagli, salde, con ampio margine e rare sottolineature a matita, arricchite da carte storiche, bibliografia, note ed indice analitico. Numero pagine 401. USATO‎

‎David and Fabio Bourbon (biography volume on George Croly Roberts) Roberts‎

‎The Holy Land Egypt & NubiA The Life Works and Travels of David Roberts 3 volumes‎

‎The American University in Cairo Press 2000. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. The American University in Cairo Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : G8880955128I3N01 ISBN : 8880955128 9788880955122

‎David Astle‎

‎The Babylonian Woe‎

‎Toronto: A Private Edition 1975. First Edition Signed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Signed by Authors. 250 Pages With The Index. Clean No Remarks Or Highlights Inside. Signed At The Title Page. Signed By The Author - Nov 15Th 1978. The Dust Jacket Has Small Tears.- Specializing in academic collectible and historically significant providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. A Private Edition hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : X39749x

‎David Astle‎

‎The Babylonian Woe A Study Of The Origin Of Certain Banking Practices‎

‎Toronto: A Private Edition 1975. First Edition Signed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 9x6x1. 250 Pages With The Index. Clean No Remarks Or Highlights Inside. Signed At The Title Page. Creased Dust Jacket With Some Small Tears All Around The Edges. . Signed By The Author Dated 1977- Specializing in academic collectible and historically significant providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. A Private Edition hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 041071

‎David B Parker; Edited by Torrance Parker‎

‎A Chautauqua Boy in '61 and Afterward Reminiscences‎

‎Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1912 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Civil War and post-war memoirs of Parker who served briefly in the 72nd New York as a Second Lieutenant then was detailed Superintendent of the Mails of the Army of the Potomac United States Marshall and District of Virginia Chief Post Office Inspector. 388 pages illustrated. Rear inner hinge just starting to crack minor edge wear. Small, Maynard & Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 097142

‎DAVID BECKHAM‎

‎DAVID BECKHAM: MI VIDA‎

‎David Beckhamuno de los hombres más famosos en los mediosde comunicación en estos momentoscuya popularidad trasciendeal mundo deportivo y culturalhabla en este libro de su fascinantevida:de su relación tormentosa con Alex Ferguson del United ycómo soportó la presión de jugar junto a algunos de los másexpertos futbolistas de su generación como CantonaSchmeichely Keanede su historia en Inglaterra donde fue vilipendiadoprimero para ser recibido más tarde como el hijo pródigocapitánde la selección de su país que condujo a su equipo a la Final dela Copa Mundial en 2002de la historia turbulenta de la temporada 2002-2003 cuando la especulación sobre el futuro de losdeportistas más famosos del Reino Unido alcanzó niveles detensión inimaginables y de su reciente fichaje en el Real Madrid.Pero también habla de su niñezde su entorno familiarde su vidaen general y lo hace con tremenda honestidad.‎

‎DAVID BUEL Jr‎

‎1857 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOBIOGRAPHY HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF TROY NEW YORK'S MOST PROMINENT CITIZENS OF THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY‎

‎TROY NEW YORK NY. Good. 1857. On offer is a super original manuscript autobiography handwritten by Mr. David Buel Jr. who retrospectively recorded his memories and anecdotes etc. in 1857 a mere three years before his death. The journal is a fascinating detailed sketch of his family travel life events genealogy etc. starting with his birth in October 1784 through 1830s but we note 1853 references on the last page. He writes of being a member of the Constitutional Congress of 1821 his mother's death in 1826 a voyage to Savannah on the Steam Boat George Washington travel to Martinique and Nevis in 1812 and much more. The 8" x 10" leather bound lined ledger book has narrative on the first 40 pages. Bumping to extremities. Some loosening to hinges. Marbled endpapers. Overall G. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: One online source provides: Hon. David Buel Jr. Born Litchfield Conn. Oct. 22 1784. Died in Troy. N.Y. August 16 1860. Mr. Buel's obit stated: "For more than a generation says the Troy Daily Whig Judge BUEL has been one of the best known and highly esteemed citizens of Troy. Prominent at the Bar he was as well for many years very active and efficient in all public concerns in both city and country. He always enjoyed public confidence and was most faithful and devoted to any cause which enlisted his energies. In 1821 he was a member of the Convention which revised the Constitution of this State. He distinguished himself in that body in the discussion of several important questions. He held the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for several years receiving the office first from the old Council of Appointment. Ill health obliged him to resign this position in 1827. Spending some three years in the South soon after in pursuit of health he returned and devoted himself to his profession avoiding public life. In 1842 he was appointed one of the State Regents of the University which office he held at the time of his death. We cannot enumerate the various positions of honor and trust connected with business charitable and religious interests which the deceased held in later years. They were numerous and every duty belonging to them was discharged with rigid fidelity. In religious faith he was an Episcopalian and for many years to the time of his decease he was senior Warden of St. Paul's Church. Judge BUEL was born in Litchfield Conn. Oct. 22 1784. His father DAVID BUEL moved to Troy in 1798 and resided here until his death in 1836. DAVID Jr. entered Williams College in the Fall of 1802 and graduated in 1805 and soon after began the study of the law at Albany in the office of DAVID JONES where his fellow-students were JOHN C. SPENCER and WHEELER BARNES; He concluded his studies in the office of ABRAM VAN VECHTEN. He commenced the practice of the law of Troy in 1809 and remained an industrious laborer in the profession until 1854 when failing health compelled him to abandon it. Though for a long time feeble under the weight of years it was only last week that his last illness was deemed of an alarming nature. He endured all with patience and without complaint. His exit from the world was calm and peaceful -- so that the sleep of death could hardly be distinguished from the sleep of exhausted nature. Throughout his sickness he retained his consciousness and his eye of intelligence even when from bodily weakness he was unable to speak. The last public appearance of Judge BUEL was as Chairman of the meeting of the Bar called on the occasion of the death of the late JOB PIERSON."; Transcript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF DAVID BUEL CONTINENTAL CONGRESS TRAVEL LITCHFIELD STEAM BOAT GEORGE WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT AMERICANA TROY NEW YORK TRANSCRIPT MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS PERSONAL PERSONAL HISTORY MEMOIR MEMORIAL DIARY JOURNAL DIARIES JOURNALS LOG LOGS KEEPSAKE AMERICANA . hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0001814

‎DAVID BUTLER‎

‎EDUARDO VII EL PACIFICADOR‎

‎En este segundo volumen de la novela del autor revela los intimos y dramaticos episodios del reinado de Eduardo VIIcompletando asi la biografia ya presentada en el primer volumen Eduardo VIIPrincipe de Corazones.‎

‎David D March‎

‎The History of Missouri in Four Volumes 4 Book set‎

‎Lewis Historical Publishing Company 1967. Hardcover. Good Condition. 4 large and heavy books. Nearly 3000 pages in total. Light to moderate wear to the edges of the green boards and spines; a little staining to a couple of the foreedges overall good books. Lightly toned pages; illustrated. Includes History and Personal and Family Records. Else very good books; rare complete set. Quantity Available: 1. Category: American History; Inventory No: 202775. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Lewis Historical Publishing Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 202775

‎DAVID DE LA ORTA‎

‎RICKY MARTIN LA HISTORIA VERDADERA‎

‎Hoy en día Ricky Martin es un gigante. De todo lo que ha tenido que har para lograrlo habla este libro que narra su verdadera historia.‎

‎DAVID Ernest‎

‎G.-F. Händel. Sa vie, ses travaux et son temps‎

‎xiv + 373pp., 19cm., br.orig., peu de rousseurs, bon état, dans la série "Bibliothèque contemporaine", M82912‎

‎David F Christopher‎

‎A genealogy of William Christopher of Portsmouth New Hampshire and of the frigate USS Essex‎

‎<p>Moncton N.B.: David Frederick Christopher 2012. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. spiral binding vii 223 pages : illustrations portraits ; 28 cm 1 CD-ROM William Christopher was born in about 1767. He married Mercy Jackson daughter of Joseph Jackson in 1796 in Portsmouth New Hampshire. They had four children. He died in 1814 in Valparaiso Chile. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New Brunswick Nova Scotia British Columbia and Massachusetts// .</p> David Frederick Christopher paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1125559966 ISBN : 0969534116 9780969534112

‎DAVID G BOYCE, SPECIAL FORCES CHAPLAIN‎

‎1966 - 1967 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DUTY JOURNAL AND PERSONAL DIARY OF A MUCH DECORATED SPECIAL FORCES CHAPLAIN SERVING IN VIETNAM‎

‎VIETNAM. Very Good. 1966. On offer is a very interesting original manuscript relic dated September 6 1966 through October 1 1967 of the Vietnam War and American involvement handwritten and typed by US Special Forces Chaplain David G. Boyce b.1928 - d. March 4th 2013. One part "Duty Log" and moreso a diary of all his movements and his personal thoughts regarding his service this is a very intimate personal history. There are even some movie plots he has imagined and poetry and songs - Boyce was quite a Renaissance man it appears! Using yellow legal pad paper originally handwritten the author changes over to a typed manuscript of 350 pages doing a superb job of recording names ranks operational duties and much much more. He does at times use blank spaces to be discreet and sometimes he admits he has forgotten the name. Here is a sample passage - spelling and typing mistakes intact: I remember the invitation of the Mike Force CO who is up here with a company guarding the camp while it is under construction. He and Sgt. Matthews the first sergeant had said to come on over and visit. I decided that if I dedn't get out that I would do just exactly that. I would go visit the Mike Force since I had now payed my visit to the Strike Force. I sat outside the team tent TOC for a while. Then I went inside and talked with Capt Horn CO. I told him my plan and gave him sixteen 16 of the Lubbock Texas "To a Soldier in Vietnam" letters- He said that he did not want to be abrupt but he had to leave for a meeting. We parted on this note. He went to his meeting and I went to gather my gear to go to Mike. Went outside and found that Sgt. Pederson was leaving. He said that he would give me a ride. He is E-7 acting team Sargeant. He took me down about 1700 to the Mike force location near the river- I dismounted and walked out into the woods. I saw the China Boy troops. They were obvisiuly Chineese. They kept pointing me farther back into the woods. Away from the road. Finally I came across two 2 Americans- It was Sgt. Leon and Sgt. Hoskins and Sgt. Leon came over and picked up my pack and took it for me over to the next object a half building 35 meters farther back. It looked like a half built house with posts and part of a back wall and about half of a grass roof with bamboo beams. This was the CP. Here I found the C.O. Capt. ----- Sgt. Matthews and Sgt. Lopey. I was given a very warm reception. It was the warmest that shave received since being in Vietnam. Even better than the one I received at Don Phuc mike force which was the best one that I had received up to that time. The warmth of their reception more than made up for the cold night that I was to spend there. I sat down and was introduced all around and told them that I remember Lopey from Bragg. He has a wife that is from Munich Germany and he now has orders to the 10th Group. Sgt. Leon is a dew and wanted to know why some of the ranking Chaplains are not ______. Sgt. Hoskins is called snake because he is very fearful of snakes. He is intrepid in battle is not afraid of death but he does not like snakes. The CO has orders to Fort Benning. He says that he is going "home". He knows Col. Stanly. He went through VW school with him and on one of their field problems he was point man one night and fell unto a 30 foot well. Sgt. Natthews is an old soldier with another couple to go which he will do in ROTC at _________ and hopes to continue there in ROTC after he retives. As a civilian the state pays half and federal pays half. Sgt. Hoskins has 23 years in Air _______ Since 1943. He was in the 519th Abn Bn that Gen. Yarbrough was in- Black Potch with the Red out line of a C-42 door and a resene parachute in the foor- He says that he will shortly retive and go to work in D.C. investigating welfare cases- His goal is to stamp out welfare- I sat down and they asked if I had eaten. I said no and told then that I wanted some of that pork and rice they had promised me. The served me with a big bowl of rice and pork with cooked cucumbers tasted like cooked turnips and a glass and a half of chocolate milk. It was a good meal because the fellowship was so good. I used several helpings of soy sauce to make it down and finished the entire bowl. Then we sat around batting the breeze which I usually don't enjoy but I did enjoy with them. Some one asked for the time and then some one said 1745. Shortly afterwards I need a watch to be more accurate there was a couple of explosions like a grenade heard off toward the river. Some one said that they are playing with grenades down there. Then there were more explosions and the sound an automatic weapon and some one called out four the Nungs Vee Cee! With that everyone started to scurry around. I was frightened so I took my cigar and put it is my mouth so that I would appear more calm than I was. I had a cigar because I had previously passed out cigars to Sgt. Matthews Sgt. Lopeg and Sgt. Leon- the CO and Sgt. Hoskins don't smoke- I put the cigar in my mouth and went over to my ruck sake and put on my tiger suit shirt I don't know whyand put on my webb gear. Next I dug out my 45 pistol and then had to hunt for the chips. I put a chip in but did not put a round in the chamber. Next I stood around trying to look calm with my cigar in my mouth. I went to the Nortor pit and watched then five the 60 MM nortors. They fived 5 had a misfire cleaved the barrel. I was very apprehensive as they cleaved the chamber and I tried to edge away without being too conspicuous. He finally cleaved it and began to fire some more. When he completed the fire mission the sound of firing died away and I thought that it was all over. I wandered back toward the CP trying to be as nonchalant as possible just as I reached the edge of the CP roof everything opened up all at once. I was frightened and the man standing next to me who was acting as my body guard told me to get in the hole that had been dug at the edge of the CP. I gladly got in. I thought that we were being over run because of the valume of fire power that was being put out. I pulled out my 45 and tryed to put a round in the chamber. It would not go. I pulled out the clip and all the bulled fell out. My Chineese body guard very calmly said "#10" and proceeded to take my clip and put the rounds in it while I helf his carbine. I than realized that I showed carry my carbine with me when I go out on field trips. It would be best to have a folding stock. He fixed the clip and I stock it in my weapon and put a round in the chamber and held the 45 on ready. I was expecting to see the VC any minute. My body guard then commented. "No VO". I couldn't see how this was possible but he said it several times with calmness and I began to be less frightened. I then got up out of my crotching position and sat on the edge of the foxhole. Again he saig "No V.C." and by now I began to believe him. With his words of assurane ringing in my lars I found the comrage to get up out of the fox hale and wander around. The firing was still going on but not with the first initial intersily. Behind the CP I found Sgt. Matthews firing the rocket launcher. He fired at least 4 or 5 rounds with the new self contained unit. The firing of the rocket launcher just about finished up the firing. A FAC came over. Sgt. Matthews wanted Francois to go down the road and locate China Boy 3 the CO & Sgt. Leon & Sgt. Hoskins & Sgt. Lepey. They would not come up on the radio. Francois did not seem inclined to go look. Soon they came in the CO and the ones who had gone out to investigate. The CO gave me a suvineer the tailfin off of a rifle grenade home made type that the local VC us. There had been 4 VC local type they had been firing at a jeep or trying to get in close enough to the New Camp for night _______ or trying for revenge on the Mike Force. As an informal critize it was pointed out that there were 4 VC. We did not get a one of them and in the process $5000.00 worth of ammo was expended. The heavy valume of fire at the end which had frightened me was the firing of their weapons out of frustration and out of just wanting to fire the weapons. Sgt. Matthews said that the time to be scarred is when you hear the "crack" of the bullets. Then you know that is incoming. Then is the time to be frightened- I realized that I had just about chewed the cigar into and also I realized that I was sweating out of fright. I threw away the cigar slobb and wiped my sweaty brow. Adding additional breadth to this personal account are more than a dozen photos many original of the writer who was the senior officer and the head of the Chaplain's Unit his colleagues and other Officers. Boyce we learn from a news clipping was a member of the Mecklenburg Presbytery Church of Charlotte North Carolina and distinguished as the first Presbyterian to be selected as a Special Forces Chaplain. He was also a jump master and fully qualified for the elite 3rd Special Forces Airborne Group. Further research regarding his military record list his military specialties which include an unusual and very intriguing record as Special Forces Officer Training Officer Chaplain and Parachutist. Research also notes many awards and decorations. Overall VG.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF VIETNAM WAR SPECIAL FORCES US ARMY VIET CONG SOUTHEAST ASIA NAM DAVID G. BOYCE 3RD SPECIAL FORCES AIRBORNE GROUP SPECIAL FORCES CHAPLAIN CHAPLAINS' CORPS AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 0001918

‎David Hardman‎

‎Shakespeare‎

‎Garzanti 1955. 16°:pp.183n. bross.origin.fiorita.‎

‎David Henderson‎

‎Hendrix Passione e morte di un voodoo rocker‎

‎Volume "4" della collana "vessazioni". Brossura ad alette mostrante lievi segni di usura da scaffale ai margini. Pagine in buono stato di conservazione anche se quasi impercettibilmente ingiallite dal tempo. Traduzione di Rossana Viani. Numero pagine 438. USATO‎

‎David Irving‎

‎Goring il maresciallo del reich‎

‎Copia discreta segni d'uso‎

‎David J Doorey‎

‎The Law Of Work:Complete Edition‎

‎Emond 2017. 4th Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 9x7x1. Soft Cover In Very Good Condition In Very Good Condition. Soft Cover No Code Or Cd Just A Book.- Specializing in academic collectible and historically significant providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Emond paperback‎

Bookseller reference : A14975a ISBN : 1772552968 9781772552966

‎DAVID Johann Nepomuk - STUCKENSCHMDIT H. H., H. H‎

‎Johann Nepomuk David. Betrachtungen zu seinem Werk (Mit einem Lebensabriß von Hellmuth von Hase und einem Werkverzeichnis. Johann Nepomuk David zu seinem 70. Geburtstage am 30. November 1965‎

‎Wiesbaden, Breitkopf & Härtel 1965. 68 Seiten u. mehrere Bildtafeln mit Abbildungen u. Notenbeispeielen. Illustrierte Originalbroschur. (Geringe Gebrauchsspuren). 25x18 cm‎

‎* Johann Nepomuk David (* 30. November 1895 in Eferding, Oberösterreich; ? 22. Dezember 1977 in Stuttgart) war ein österreichischer Komponist, Chorleiter und Dirigent. Er war der Lehrer vieler bekannter Komponisten und Interpreten, unter anderem von Hans Georg Bertram, Wolfgang Dallmann, Jörg Demus, Helmut Eder, Hans Joachim Kauffmann, Helmut Lachenmann, Hans Stadlmair, Klaus Tennstedt, Friedrich Wickenhauser und Ruth Zechlin. Johann Nepomuk David, der Sohn des Schullehrers Karl David, war von 1905 bis 1909 Sängerknabe im Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Sankt Florian und von 1909 bis 1912 Schüler am Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster.[1] Von 1912 bis 1915 studierte er an der (katholischen) Bischöflichen Lehrerbildungsanstalt in Linz. Von 1915 bis 1920 war er Volksschullehrer in Peterskirchen (Innkreis), von 1920 bis 1924 Volksschullehrer in Waizenkirchen. Danach studierte er von 1921 bis 1922 an der Musikakademie und an der Universität in Wien bei Joseph Marx bzw. Guido Adler und hatte persönlichen Kontakt zu Josef Matthias Hauer, Arnold Schönberg und Anton Webern. Von 1922 bis 1924 war David musikalischer Leiter der Linzer ?Kunststelle?, geführt von dem Literaturwissenschaftler und Volksbildner Dr. Wilhelm Gärtner. Von Januar 1925 bis Herbst 1934 unterrichtete David in Wels an der katholischen Volksschule, von 1926 bis 1934 leitete er dort den von ihm gegründeten Bach-Chor und war 1930 bis 1934 Organist an der evangelischen Christuskirche. Von November 1934 bis Januar 1945 war er Lehrer, seit Juni 1943 Professor für Theorie und Komposition sowie Leiter der Kantoreien am Landeskonservatorium (seit 1941 Hochschule für Musik) in Leipzig ? seit 1. Mai 1942 als kommissarischer Direktor dieses Instituts. Der parteilich ungebundene David komponierte in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus fast nur absolute Musik (Kammermusik, Symphonien, Orchesterwerke) oder geistliche Musik (Orgelmusik, Motetten, Kantaten). Eine ?Heldenehrung / Motette nach einem Führerwort [Adolf Hitler] / für 4stimmigen gemischten Chor und 3 Posaunen [?] / Den gefallenen Lehrern und Studierenden / der Staatl. Musikhochschule in Leipzig zum Gedächtnis? auf folgenden Text: ?Wer seinem Volke so die Treue hält, der soll selbst in Treue nie vergessen sein? wurde am 7. November 1942 in Leipzig uraufgeführt, blieb jedoch unveröffentlicht. Nach dem schweren Bombenangriff auf Leipzig am 3./4. Dezember 1943 leitete David von April 1944 an die Evakuierung der Musikhochschule nach Crimmitschau in Sachsen, wo bis zu den Abschlussprüfungen im August 1944 unter schwierigsten Verhältnissen der Studienbetrieb aufrechterhalten werden konnte. Im August 1944 wurde er in die sogenannte Gottbegnadeten-Liste der wichtigsten Komponisten aufgenommen, was ihn vor einem Kriegseinsatz, auch an der Heimatfront, bewahrte. Von 1945 bis 1947 war David Professor für Komposition, Leiter der Kantorei und kommissarischer Leiter des Salzburger Mozarteums. Ab dem Sommersemester 1948 bis zu einer Erkrankung im Mai 1963 hatte er eine Professur für Theorie und Kontrapunkt (Komposition) an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart. Von 1949 bis 1952 war er außerdem Dirigent des Stuttgarter Brucknerchores und von 1950 bis 1953 Dirigent des Hochschulkammerorchesters, mit dem er u. a. ein vielfach beachtetes Konzert in Paris leitete. Mit diesen beiden Ensembles brachte David auch zeitgenössische Kompositionen zur Aufführung, die durch Produktionen bzw. Mitschnitte des Süddeutschen Rundfunks Stuttgart dokumentiert sind. (Quelle Wikipedia)‎

Bookseller reference : 142317