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When pondering the biggies of Western classical music, three B's spring to mind--Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Indeed Johannes Brahms inherited, much to his dismay--and at an early age--Beethoven's mantle. Aware, thus, that his materials--letters, notes, early compositions--would provide a feeding frenzy for biographers, Brahms kept a tight rein on his own posterity, and successfully destroyed almost everything. Now comes Jan Swafford's whopping Johannes Brahms, wonderfully recovering more of Brahm's own materials-- letters, notebooks--than any previous biography of the master. Refreshingly, Swafford himself has translated them into modern and idiomatic English. Calling the biography "Brahms ohne Bart" ("Brahms without beard"), Swafford relieves Brahms of his venerability, and places him in the rich context of the politics, personalities, and esthetics of the romantic era



1. Johannes Brahms : A Biography
by Jan Swafford

2. Chopin in Paris : The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer
by Tad Szulc

3. Beethoven
by Maynard Solomon

4. Mozart : A Life
by Maynard Solomon

5. Mahler : A Biography
by Jonathan Carr

6. Memoirs : Sir Georg Solti
by Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs

7. Testimony : The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
by Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich, et al

8. The New Bach Reader : A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents
by Hans T. David(Preface), et al

9. Silence
by John Cage

10. Gustav Mahler : The Symphonies
by Constantin Floros, et al

11. Shostakovich : A Life Remembered
by Elizabeth Wilson

12. Fritz Kreisler : Love's Sorrow, Love's Joy
by Amy Biancolli, Amy Blancolli

13. Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, et al

14. Nietzsche and Wagner : A Lesson in Subjugation
by Joachim Kohler, Ronald Taylor (Translator)

15. Heart at Fire's Center : The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
by Steven C. Smith

16. Johannes Brahms : Life and Letters
by Johannes Brahms, et al

17. Richard Wagner : The Man, His Mind and His Music
by Robert W. Gutman

18. Beethoven
by William Kinderman

19. Arvo Part (Oxford Studies of Composers (Paper))
by Paul Hillier

20. Beethoven His Spiritual Development
by J. W. N. Sullivan

21. J. S. Bach
by Albert Schweitzer, et al

22. The Compleat Mozart : A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Neal Zaslaw, William Cowdery (Editor)

23. The Last Prodigy : A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold
by Brendan G. Carroll

24. Minimalists (20th Century Composers)
by K. Robert Schwarz, K. Robert Schwartz

25. Chopin : Pianist and Teacher : As Seen by His Pupils
by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, et al

26. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian : The Life and Work of an American Composer 1867-1944
by Adrienne Fried Block

27. Bach (Master Musicians Series)
by Malcolm Boyd

28. Schubert : The Music and the Man
by Brian Newbould

29. Beethoven : His Life, Work and World
by H.C. Robbins Landon, H. C. Robbins Landom

30. Glenn Gould : Music & Mind
by Geoffrey Payzant

31. Franz Liszt : The Final Years, 1861-1886
by Alan Walker

32. Robert Schumann : Herald of a 'New Poetic Age'
by John Daverio

33. The Music of Elliott Carter
by David Schiff, Elliott Carter

34. Charles Ives : A Life With Music
by Jan Swafford

35. Aspects of Wagner
by Bryan Magee

36. The Great Composer As Teacher and Student : Theory and Practice of Composition
by Alfred Mann

37. J. S. Bach
by Albert Schweitzer, et al

38. Beethoven's Letters
by Ludwig Van Beethoven, et al

39. Franz Liszt : The Weimar Years, 1848-1861
by Alan Walker

40. Memoirs of Hector Berlioz : From 1803 to 1865, Comprising His Travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England
by Hector Berlioz, Ernest Newman

41. The Life of Mahler (Musical Lives)
by Peter Franklin

42. Francis Poulenc (20th-Century Composers)
by Benjamin Ivry

43. The Life of Mozart (Musical Lives)
by John Rosselli

44. Priest of Music : The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos
by William R. Trotter

45. Clara Schumann : The Artist and the Woman
by Nancy B. Reich

46. Scriabin, a Biography
by Faubion Bowers

47. Lou Harrison : Composing a World
by Leta E. Miller, et al

48. Thayer's Life of Beethoven
by Alexander Wheelock Thayer, et al

49. Franz Liszt : The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847
by Alan Walker

50. Alfred Schnittke (20Th-Century Composers)
by Alexander Ivashkin

51. Wagner
by Barry Millington

52. Writings on Glass : Essays, Interviews, Criticism
by Richard Kostelanetz(Editor), et al

53. Sergei Rachmaninov : An Essential Guide to His Life and Works (Classic Fm Lifelines Series)
by Julian Haylock

54. Thayer's Life of Beethoven
by Alexander Wheelock Thayer, et al

55. Beethoven As I Knew Him
by Anton Felix Schindler, et al

56. Verdi; A Biography
by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Andrew Porter

57. Antonio Vivaldi : The Red Priest of Venice
by Karl Heller, David Marinelli (Translator)

58. Handel
by Christopher Hogwood

59. Three Great Orchestral Works in Full Score
by Claude Debussy

60. The New Grove Bach Family (The New Grove)
by Christoph Wollf, et al

61. Bach (Everyman's Library. Emi Classics Music Companions)
by Peter Washington

62. Bamboula! : The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
by S. Frederick Starr

63. A Pianist's Landscape
by Carol Montparker

64. The New Grove Beethoven (The New Grove)
by Joseph Kerman(Preface), Alan Tyson (Preface)

65. Charles Ives : A Life With Music
by Jan Swafford

66. Mozart : From Child Prodigy to Tragic Hero (Discoveries)
by Michel Parouty, Celia Skrine (Translator)

67. Bach : Essays on His Life and Music
by Christoph Wolff

68. Conversations With Iannis Xenakis
by Balint Andras Varga

69. Beethoven Letters Journals and Conversations
by Michael Hamburger(Editor), Ludwig Van Beethoven

70. Johann Sebastian Bach : His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750 (Dover Books on Music, Music History) [UNABRIDGED]
by Philipp Spitta, et al

71. Richard Strauss : Man, Musician, Enigma
by Michael Kennedy

72. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau : A Biography
by Hans A. Neunzig, Kenneth S. Whitton (Translator)

73. Giacomo Puccini (20th-Century Composers Series)
by Conrad Wilson

74. Benjamin Britten (20th-Century Composers)
by Michael Oliver

75. Beethoven : The Composer As Hero (Discoveries Series)
by Philippe A. Autexier



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