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An illuminating new biography of the great nineteenth-century composer offers a fascinating look inside the life of an enigmatic man and his music, detailing his difficult youth, his love affair with Clara Schumann, and his rich musical legacy. 10,000 first printing.
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ing new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. Johannes Brahms has consistently eluded his biographers. Throughout his life, he attempted to erase traces of himself, wanting his music to be his sole legacy.
Now, in this masterful book, Jan Swafford, critically acclaimed as both biographer and composer, takes a fresh look at Brahms, giving us for the first time a fully realized portrait of the man who created the magnificent music. Brahms was a man with many friends and no intimates, who experienced triumphs few artists achieve in their lifetime. Yet he lived with a relentless loneliness and a growing fatalism about the future of music and the world. The Brahms that emerges from these pages is not the bearded eminence of previous biographies but rather a fascinating assemblage of contradictions. Brought up in poverty, he was for
Now, in this masterful book, Jan Swafford, critically acclaimed as both biographer and composer, takes a fresh look at Brahms, giving us for the first time a fully realized portrait of the man who created the magnificent music. Brahms was a man with many friends and no intimates, who experienced triumphs few artists achieve in their lifetime. Yet he lived with a relentless loneliness and a growing fatalism about the future of music and the world. The Brahms that emerges from these pages is not the bearded eminence of previous biographies but rather a fascinating assemblage of contradictions. Brought up in poverty, he was for
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Stated First Edition. DEFINITIVE: ILLUMINATING: BRILLIANT: MASTERPIECE: NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. November 21, 1997) First Printing: NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 price at top-right inside front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ black fabric wrapping spine & extending 2.0" over boards covered in deep purple paper w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACUlATE text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior beautifully printed in Janson on SUPERB unblemished archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 2.0", 1.26 kg, xxii+699 (721) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: This book is a masterpiece: an original, definitive, brilliantly written, illuminating biography of one of the most beloved yet most elusive of all composers. Throughout his life, Brahms attempted to erase traces of himself, wanting his music to be his sole legacy. In this critically acclaimed book, Jan Swafford gives us a fully realized portrait of the man who created magnificent music. A man w/ many friends & no intimates, Brahms experienced triumphs few artists achieve, yet he lived w/ a relentless loneliness & a growing fatalism about the future of music & the world. The Brahms that emerges from these pages is a fascinating assemblage of contradictions. Brought up in poverty, he was forced to play the piano in the brothels of Hamburg, where he met w/ both mental & physical abuse, but he was also the golden boy of his teachers, who found themselves in awe of a stupendous talent: a miraculous young composer & pianist, poised between the emotionalism of the Romantics & the rigors of the composers he worshiped: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. In 1853, Robert Schumann proclaimed the 20-year-old Brahms the savior of German music. Brahms spent the rest of his days trying to live up to that prophecy. We find here more of Brahms' words, his daily life & joys & sorrows, than in any other biography. W/ novelistic grace, Swafford shows us a warm-blooded but guarded genius who hid behind jokes & prickliness, rudeness & intractability w/ his friends as well as his enemies, but who was also a witty drinking companion & a consummate careerist skillfully courting the powerful. This is a book rich in secondary characters as well, including Robert Schumann, declining into madness as he hailed the advent of a new genius; Clara Schumann, the towering pianist, tormented personality, & great love of Brahms' life; Josef Joachim, the brilliant, self-lacerating violinist; the extraordinary musical amateur Elisabet von Herzogenberg, on whose exacting criticism Brahms relied; Brahms's rival & shadow, the malevolent genius Richard Wagner; & Eduard Hanslick, enemy of Wagner & apostle of Brahms, at once the most powerful & most wrongheaded music critic of his time. Among the characters in the book are two great cities: the stolid North German harbor town of Hamburg where Johannes grew up, which later spurned him; & glittering, fickle, music-mad Vienna, where Brahms the self-proclaimed vagabond finally settled, to find his sweetest triumphs & his most bitter failures. Uniquely combining musical scholarship & biography, in a style refreshingly free of pretentiousness, Jan Swafford takes us deep into the music, from the grandeur of the First Symphony & the intricacies of the chamber work to the sorrow of the German Requiem, allowing us to hear these familiar works in new & often surprising ways. This is a clear-eyed study of a remarkable man & a vivid portrait of an era in transition. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates. Nº de ref. del artículo: 010243
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