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Article: A Brahms Reader.(Review)
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By Michael Musgrave. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. [xviii, 344 p. ISBN 0-300-06804-2. $40.]
Throughout the twentieth century biographers of Brahms have relied on the same sources, the most important of which has been Max Kalbeck's monumental study of the composer's life and works (Johannes Brahms, 4 vols. [Vienna: Wiener Verlag, 1904-14; various editions, Berlin: Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft; reprint, Tutzing: H. Schneider, 1976]). Kalbeck had been acquainted with Brahms and had prepared many of the editions of letters between the composer and his friends, and he included information from these sources in his biography. Following Kalbeck, the most ...