Johannes Brahms

A Biography

Jan Swafford

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Vintage Books
01 December 1999

Music; Western "classical" music; Biography: arts & entertainment; Biography: historical, political & military

"A New York Times Notable Book

""This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to...become the definitive study of Johannes Brahms.""--The Plain Dealer

Judicious, compassionate, and full of insight into Brahms's human complexity as well as his music, Johannes Brahms is an indispensable biography.

Proclaimed the new messiah of Romanticism by Robert Schumann when he was only twenty, Johannes Brahms dedicated himself to a long and extraordinarily productive career. In this book, Jan Swafford sets out to reveal the little-known Brahms, the boy who grew up in mercantile Hamburg and played piano in beer halls among prostitutes and drunken sailors, the fiercely self-protective man who thwarted future biographers by burning papers, scores and notebooks late in his life. Making unprecedented use of the remaining archival material, Swafford offers richly expanded perspectives on Brahms's youth, on his difficult romantic life--particularly his longstanding relationship with Clara Schumann--and on his professional rivalry with Lizst and Wagner.

""[Johannes Brahms] will no doubt stand as the definitive work on Brahms, one of the monumental biographies in the entire musical library.""--London Weekly Standard

""It is a measure of the accomplishment of Jan Swafford's biography that Brahms's sadness becomes palpable.... [Swafford] manages to construct a full-bodied human being.""--The New York Times Book Review"

By: Jan Swafford
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 601g
ISBN: 9780679745822
ISBN 10: 0679745823
Pages: 752
Publication Date: 01 December 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active