Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters

ISBN-13: 9780199247738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 912 str.

Johannes Brahms

Opis

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.
The letters in this volume range from 1848 to just before his death. They include most of Brahm'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 work is generously illustrated, and contains several detailed appendices and an index.

Recenzje

Delightful and absorbing. It is going to become an absolutely central work of reference: I expect to be using it for the rest of my life

O autorze

Avins studied cello at the Juilliard School of Music and has a Master's Degree in Cello from the Manhattan School of Music. Eisinger (Avins's husband) is a scientist and writer.