The Young Brahms
Author : Opal Wheller
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9781933573281
Author : Opal Wheller
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9781933573281
Author : Sybil Deucher
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Sybil Deucher
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 1955
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Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher :
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780333725894
In an expansive study Johannes Brahms emerges from Jan Swafford's book is not a bearded eminence but rather an assemblage of contradictions. He grew up in grinding poverty and as a teenager was forced to play the piano in brothels. Recognized by his teachers as a stupendous talent, Robert Schumann proclaimed Brahms at only twenty-years-old to be the saviour of German music. Brahms spent the rest of his life living up to the that prophecy. He experienced triumphs few artists have enjoyed in their lifetime, yet lived with a relentless loneliness and a growing fatalism about the future of music and the world.
Author : John Bell Young
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486817776
Engaging survey covers Brahms' major orchestral, choral, and piano music, culminating in a discussion of the German Requiem. Commentary places the composer's compelling music within the context of his era and environment.
Author : Sybil Deutcher
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Composers
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Author : Jacquelyn Sholes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253033160
Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously known musical references in works such as the B-Major Piano Trio, the D-Major Serenade, the First Piano Concerto, and the Fourth Symphony, among others, Sholes demonstrates how a historical reference in one movement of a work seems to resonate meaningfully, musically, and dramatically with material in other movements in ways not previously recognized. She highlights Brahms's ability to weave such references into broad, movement-spanning narratives, arguing that these narratives served as expressive outlets for his complicated, sometimes conflicted, attitudes toward the material to which he alludes. Ultimately, Brahms's music reveals both the inspiration and the burden that established masters such as Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, and especially Beethoven represented for him as he struggled to emerge with his own artistic voice and to define and secure his unique position in music history.
Author : Walter Frisch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1400833620
Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers. In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close to the vision behind the original book while updating its contents to reflect new perspectives on Brahms that have developed over the past two decades. To this end, the original essays by leading experts are retained and revised, and supplemented by contributions from a new generation of Brahms scholars. Together, they consider such topics as Brahms's relationship with Clara and Robert Schumann, his musical interactions with the "New German School" of Wagner and Liszt, his influence upon Arnold Schoenberg and other young composers, his approach to performing his own music, and his productive interactions with visual artists. The essays are complemented by a new selection of criticism and analyses of Brahms's works published by the composer's contemporaries, documenting the ways in which Brahms's music was understood by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century audiences in Europe and North America. A new selection of memoirs by Brahms's friends, students, and early admirers provides intimate glimpses into the composer's working methods and personality. And a catalog of the music, literature, and visual arts dedicated to Brahms documents the breadth of influence exerted by the composer upon his contemporaries.
Author : Johannes Brahms
Publisher :
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199247738
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.
Author : Johannes Brahms
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781576470824
The annotations and descriptions of the various authors are by Siegmund Levarie."--BOOK JACKET.