These concertos are one of the most outstanding examples of programmatic-illustrative music.
They carry programmatic content expressed through musical means. They are distinguished by a great number of onomatopoeic effects and imaginative sound paintings.
He defended his doctorate at the age of twenty-two.
The exam was chaired by the German physicist and Nobel laureate James Franck, who is reported to have said at the end: "I'm glad that's over. He was at the point of questioning me".
Lovelace valued metaphysics on a par with mathematics.
She saw them as tools for discovering "invisible worlds around us." She believed that intuition and imagination were crucial to the successful application of mathematical and scientific concepts.
