The Compleat Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes Brahms - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0393047083 ISBN 13: 9780393047080

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999

Riassunto

For all those eager to delve more deeply into Brahms's music, The Compleat Brahms is an indispensable companion. In a single volume that covers every work written by Brahms, leading scholars from across the country provide details of each work's composition and discuss its important stylistic features. Interspersed are fascinating essays — such as "Brahms, Joachim, and the Schumanns" — that bring the composer and his contemporaries to life. Much more than a collection of program notes, The Compleat Brahms vividly portrays the work and world of one of the giants of Western music history.

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The 1997 centenary of Johannes Brahms' death has helped increase interest among concert-goers and music lovers in the composer's prodigious body of work. In a single volume that covers every work written by Brahms, scholars provide details of each work's composition and discuss its sylistic features. Interspered are essays that bring the composer and his contemporaries to life. The works' dates and place of composition are given, along with historical and background information, outlines of significant features and contemporary reviews.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393047083
• ISBN 13: 9780393047080
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 350
• Redattore: Botstein Leon
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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