Brahms (Life&Times series)
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1904341179 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His previous books include studies of the German Romantic composers and writers, and a volume on Schutz, Handel and Bach. His book Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Biography was translated by Kenneth S. Whitton, Professor Emeritus in the Department of European Studies at the University of Bradford, UK. Hans A. Neunzig is an editor and writer on literature and music.
Neunzig's excellent sketch of Brahms' life and achievements, which has waited 30 years to be translated, brings those legends and more to life by smoothly incorporating the words of Brahms, his acquaintances, and previous biographers into virtually every paragraph of an engrossing, highly concentrated text. From Booklist Brahms lovers usually know the bare facts of the great nineteenth-century composer's life: he played the rough equivalent of whore-house piano in Hamburg's red-light district as a youth; fell in love with the concert-pianist wife of his chief mentor, Robert Schumann; was notoriously brusque, one of those is-there-anyone-I-haven't-offended? types; had long fallings-out with his closest friends; was the designated (by others) champion of pure music against the program m
Five Stars moby pablo a fabulous bio and fabulous format
He shot to fame as a dashing young performer and composer, "the one who had to come" according to Robert Schumann. He consciously "switched" this image, refashioning himself as elder statesman of German music, the heir to Bach and Beethoven. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was one of the seminal musical figures of the 19th century. Adopted by the anti-Wagnerian faction as the leader of traditional principles against ‘modern’ iconoclasm, his fame as a composer spread rapidly. The internal competition between romantic lion and eminence grise enlivened his music, which has influenced nearly every composer that followed him. At the start of the 21st century, his influence remains as acute as ever.