Malcolm MacDonald: Brahms
- Author: MacDonald, M
There is no better book on Brahms in print, and all its succesors will be deeply in its debt ... inaugurates a new era in Brahms studies
Malcolm MacDonald: Brahms
- Author: MacDonald, M
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There is no better book on Brahms in print, and all its succesors will be deeply in its debt ... inaugurates a new era in Brahms studies
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Brahms has long been considered an arch-conservative, the last Classical master, but modern research reveals a troubled and self-critical Romantic whose genius united the emotionalism of his times with Classical principles. Malcolm MacDonald demonstrates how the musical and personal character of this great composer are inextricably entwined: how the man speaks in his music.
Contents
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Prelude, in Canon1. Young Kreisler (1833-54)
- 2. The Romantic foreground
- 3. Storm and stress (1854-60)
- 4. Fully armed like Minerva: the music to 1860
- 5. Not quite a Viennese (1860-72)
- 6. The sense of the past
- 7. The music of the middle years, 1860-75
- 8. 'Frei aber froh'
- 9. The music of the middle years, 1876-82
- 10. The final phase
- 11. The later music, 1883-96
- 12. Music and [Menschenbild]
- 13. A Music of the Future
- Appendices
- Index
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There is no better book on Brahms in print, and all its succesors will be deeply in its debt ... inaugurates a new era in Brahms studies
