Johannes Brahms: a Biography - Hardcover

Swafford, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679422617 ISBN 13: 9780679422617

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

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An illuminating new biography of the great nineteenth-century composer offers a fascinating look inside the life of an enigmatic man and his music, detailing his difficult youth, his love affair with Clara Schumann, and his rich musical legacy. 10,000 first printing.

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JAN SWAFFORD received degrees from Harvard and the Yale School of Music and is the author of <b>Charles Ives: A Life with Music</b>, which was a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography, won the PEN/Winship Award, and was hailed by <b>Newsweek</b> as "one of the best biographies in recent memory."  He is also the author of <b>The Vintage Guide to Classical Music</b> and a featured commentator on NPR's Performance Today. An award-winning composer whose work has been widely performed by ensembles here and abroad, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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ing new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. Johannes Brahms has consistently eluded his biographers. Throughout his life, he attempted to erase traces of himself, wanting his music to be his sole legacy. <br><br>Now, in this masterful book, Jan Swafford, critically acclaimed as both biographer and composer, 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 but rather a fascinating assemblage of contradictions. Brought up in poverty, he was for

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679422617
• ISBN 13: 9780679422617
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 699
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar