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: 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: An interesting and excellent collection of essays. I personally found the articles written by Brahms' contemporaries to be the most illuminating. While some of the chapters are quite technical musically, there is much that is of great interest to the layperson.
Customer Review: I ordered this book when our small group decided to do a Kerygma study on Brahms' "German Requiem." The author of the study guide recommends and quotes extensively from Minear's book. Our group was unanimously glad to have the entire book, to benefit in full from Minear's scholarly commentary on the... more info
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