Johannes Brahms: A Biography, by Jan Swafford (Alfred A. Knopf). Cloth, $35. BURIED IN THIS book amid a collection of formal portraits of the mature Brahms, Clara Schumann, Johann Strauss, Brahms' ...
I recently read Simon Callow’s excellent biography of Richard Wagner. Now, to be fair, I’m reading a biography of Johannes Brahms by Jan Swafford. As in music, in biography these two are opposed. We ...
A Serious Song Audio will be available later today. Commentator Jan Swafford weighs in on the complex relationships among the Schumanns and Johannes Brahms, and we hear Thomas Quasthoff sing the last ...
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Johannes Brahms was a quiet, private person, but he lived a full life, bearing a responsibility he didn’t want, a woman he couldn’t be with, and a legacy he couldn’t live up to. Scott Yoo journeys ...
“If Brahms has always appeared to lie outside the story of late-19th century aesthetics and of Modernism, it is because his music … like the man himself, followed no path but his own. …” So says Jan ...
In this brilliant, exhaustive story, biographer and music historian Swafford (Johannes Brahms) brings new life to Beethoven, animating the composer’s immersion in music and his tenacious grip on his ...
Today is the birthday of composer Johannes Brahms, born in 1833. In his lifetime, he was compared with his predecessor, Beethoven, and with his contemporary and rival, Wagner. But Brahms biographer ...