Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringers biography of Brahms is generally regarded as one of the finest studies of the composer ever published in any language. It is based on the body of material in the archives of the Viennese Society of Friends, for which Karl Geiringer was curator from 1930-1938, and which contains more than a thousand letters written by and to Brahms. These letters, exchanged with family and with his famous contemporaries, reveal his loneliness, grim humour, loyalty, painful shyness and enthusiasm for the music of Beethoven and Schubert moods that the self-effacing composer did not like to publicly display. Divided into sections on Brahmss solitary, scholarly existence and his fruitful composing career including examinations of rare first drafts the biography relates how crises in Brahms personal life were translated into his music, and how he often managed to ignore or suppress them.
Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringers biography of Brahms is generally regarded as one of the finest studies of the composer ever published in any language.
Recenzijas
Original Review of Brahms: HIs Life and Work
As subtle and life-like a portrait of the most reserved of composers as we are ever likely to get. Desmond Shawe-Taylor
It is altogether a rare book, equally a product of fine scholarship, a splendid literary gift, and intimate feeling for his subject. Irving Kolodin
The main librarians who sought long and hard for copies of the book during its out-of-print years will be happy to have it back. Highly recommended. Library Journal
Part 1: His Life
1. Father and Mother
2. Childhood and Youth
3. Seven
Eventful Months
4. Sturm und Drang
5. Detmold and Hamburg
6. At Home and
Abroad
7. First Appointment in Vienna
8. A German Requiem
9. Artistic
Director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde
10. On the Summit
11. Old
Friends and New
12. A Fruitful Autumn
13. Nearing the End Part 2: His Work
14. Brahms Life Work
15. Compositions for the Pianoforte
16. Compositions
for the Organ
17. Chamber Music
18. Compositions for Orchestra
19. Songs for
One, Two and Four Voices with Pianoforte Accompaniment
20. Smaller Choral
Works
21. Large Choral Works Part 3: The Man and the Artist. Appendix I:
Brahms Writes Letters Appendix II: Brahms as a Reader and Collector
Karl Geiringer (1899-1989) was an Austrian-American musicologist, prolific author and Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
