Johannes Brahms Life and Letters

Name: Johannes Brahms Life and Letters
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ISBN: 9780199247738

ISBN-10: 0199247730

ISBN-13: 9780199247738

Edition: 2001

Authors: Johannes Brahms, Styra Avins, Josef Eisinger, Josef Eisinger

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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…

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/27/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 888
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgements


List of Illustrations


List of Music Examples


Abbreviations


Note on the Translation


Chronology


Introduction



Prelude 1833-1852



One Fateful Year 1853



Turmoil and Apprenticeship 1854-1858



In Hamburg Again 1859-1862



In Vienna, Sometimes 1863-1870



At Home in Vienna 1871-1876



Independence 1877-1890



The Final Years 1891-1897


Additional Notes


Appendices


Select Bibliography


Illustration Acknowledgments


Index