The Life and Works Series - Book 0
Brahms
Johannes Brahms is one of the best loved yet most controversial of all the romantic musicians. His works have never suffered the slightest period of eclipse. Profoundly emotional yet governed by an iron discipline, his music, like the man himself, is a fascinating, entertaining, often deeply moving blend of opposites. He had a gift for friendship and a capacity for love far beyond the ordinary, yet no man could be ruder or more hurtful. Though humble, he was consumed by a sense of destiny, and his inner life, colored by his adoration and fear of women, found expression in some of the greatest music ever written.
Listening to this audio-biography is leaping inside the life and times of a great German romantic, understanding the man who was haunted by the ghost of Beethoven for years and was forty-three years old before he wrote his first symphony. This is a sympathetic, absorbing account of a fascinating composer.
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