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BBC music magazine volume 13, op. 6
Publisher
BBC Music Magazine
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The human, business, design, engineering, cold war, and tech story of how the Olivetti company came to be, how it survived two world wars and brought a ravaged Italy back to life, how after it mastered the typewriter business with the famous "Olivetti touch," it entered the new, fierce electronics race; how its first desktop compter, the P101, came to be; how, within eighteen months, it had caught up with, and surpassed, IBM, the American giant that...
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Language
English
Description
When old friend Arnold Chater Q.C. sends retired Norwegian Judge Christofferson a yellowing manuscript with the mysterious initials G.B. on the first page, the latter starts a quest to seek the truth about British composer Sir Edward Elgar's secret muse in his masterpiece, the Enigma Variations, and whether he fathered an illegitimate child.
Fascinated with riddles and puzzles, the composer was in the habit of leaving a series of codes denoting...