Customer Review: Very interesting edition. Noteheads are large and well readable. The preface is very interesting, and lists some passages found in Brahms' autographs that were crossed out and rewritten (e.g. the beginning of the Clarinet Quintet). Hans Gal (the editor) made a great work in preparing this edition!
Customer Review: I don't read a lot of biographies because I often find the amount of detail to be excruciatingly excessive, and often the writer, even if he knows the person he is writing about personally, often tends to descend into sharp criticism of his subject, as if that were the norm in our age of gossip and... more info
Customer Review: Walter Frisch explores the concepts of developing variation, a term 'created' by Arnold Schoenberg, in the works of Brahms. Frisch examines the essential principles behind Brahms concepts of subtle variation. Through developing variation, Frisch introduces ideas of how Brahms would dervie all of the... more info
Customer Review: As always with Dover, a well made book that will last a very long time. This edition contains an enormous section of the Brahms piano repertoire. I would not recommend almost any of the pieces for the beginner/intermediate pianist, except for reading along with recordings. Less advanced pianists... more info
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