Johannes Brahms: A Biography

Nonfiction

Author: Jan Swafford

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 o….Read More

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