Recollections Of Johannes Brahms - Softcover

Dietrich, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406748714 ISBN 13: 9781406748710

Publisher: Blunt Press, 2007

Synopsis

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Johannes Brahms studied the piano from the age of seven and theory and composition (with Eduard Marxsen) from 13, gaining experience as an arranger for his father's light orchestra while absorbing the popular alla zingarese style associated with Hungarian folk music. In 1853, on a tour with the Hungarian violinist Reményi, he met Joseph Joachim and Liszt; Joachim, who became a lifelong friend, encouraged him to meet Robert Schumann.

Fundamentally reserved, logical and studious, Brahms was fond of taut forms in his music, though he used genre distinctions loosely. In the piano music, for example, which chronologically encircles his vocal output, the dividing lines between ballads and rhapsody, and capriccio and intermezzo, are vague, such terms refer more to expressive character than to musical form. As in other media, his most important development technique in the piano music is variation, whether used independently (simple melodic alteration and thematic cross-reference) or to create a large integrated cycle in which successive variations contain their own thematic transformation (as in the Handel Variations).

About the Author:

Albert Dietrich lived in Maine, where he worked as a social worker. He died in 2002.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blunt Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1406748714
• ISBN 13: 9781406748710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224