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Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
p2002
Language
English
Description
Johannes Brahms was a man of contrasts. His serious Teutonic music was balanced by joyful dance music. His miserliness with himself by exceeding generosity with family and associates. His kindness to working people with a biting, malicious wit reserved for those he encountered in artistic and aristocratic circles. He was not an easy man to know, destroying a good deal of his own work and almost all of his lifetime's correspondence, in later years...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Jan Swafford takes a fresh look at Brahms, giving us for the first time a fully realized portrait of the man who created the magnificent music. Brahms was a man with many friends and no intimates, who experienced triumphs few artists achieve in their lifetime. Yet he lived with a relentless loneliness and a growing fatalism about the future of music and the world. The Brahms that emerges from these pages is not the bearded eminence of previous biographies...
6) Brahms
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer with emphasis on his childhood and early musical training.