Volume 45, Number 16 · October 22, 1998

Aimez-Vous Brahms?

By Charles Rosen
Johannes Brahms: A Biography
by Jan Swafford

Knopf, 699 pp., $35.00

Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters
selected and annotated by Styra Avins

Oxford University Press, 858 pp., $49.95

Brahms Studies 2
edited by David Brodbeck

University of Nebraska Press, 256 pp., $70.00

Brahms: The Four Symphonies
by Walter Frisch

Schirmer Books, 226 pp., $38.00

On Easter Monday, 1872, when Brahms was thirty-eight years old, he wrote to Clara Schumann:



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