Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 December 1997
- ISBN 9780198162346
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages908 pages
- Size 242x167x49 mm
- Weight 1422 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 pp plates, figures, music examples 0
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Short description:
This is the first comprehensive English-language collection of Brahms's letters. It contains over 550 letters, including more than a dozen previously unpublished in any language. The letters are woven together with an extended biographical narrative, and span the entire life of the composer. For the first time, English readers and music-lovers have the opportunity to meet Brahms in person, through his words, and in his own voice.
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This book is the first comprehensive collection of the letters of Johannes Brahms ever to appear in English. Over 550 are included, virtually all uncut, and there are over a dozen published here for the first time in any language. Although he corresponded throughout his life with some of the great performers, composers, musicologists, writers, scientists, and artists of the day, and although thousands of his letters have survived, English readers have until now had scant opportunity to meet Brahms in person, through his words, and in his own voice.
`I am aware of my bad habit of writing briefly but obscurely', Brahms once wrote to a friend. He was needlessly hard on himself, for his letters describe many significant events in his life, throw light on his friendships and music, and reveal his wit, idealism, intelligence, generosity, sarcasm, and above all his powerful sense of integrity.
The letters in this volume range from 1848 to just before his death. They include all Brahms's letters to Robert Schumann, over a hundred letters to Clara Schumann, and the complete Brahms-Wagner correspondence. They are joined by a running commentary to form an absorbing narrative, documented with scholarly care, provided with comprehensive notes, but written for the general music lover. The result is a lively biography. The book is generously illustrated, and contains several detailed appendices and an index.
Avins and Josef Eisinger provide very sensitive and readable translations, and the content is brought fully to life by the excellent production ... This book will certainly stimulate many fresh ideas about the composer and his world, as well as provide a rich source of quotation for years to come
