Description:
Johannes Brahms: Life and Lettersselected & annotated by Styra Avins
translated by Styra Avins & Josef Eisinger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001
ISBN is 9780199247738 / 0199247730
Paperback
6 x 9.25 inches, 858 pages
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… Read More