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Article: Brahms Studies.(Vol. 2.)(Review)
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Brahms Studies. Vol. 2. Edited by David Brodbeck. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, in association with the American Brahms Society, 1998. [xiii, 242 p. ISBN 0-8032-6196-9. $60.]
Like volume 1 of Brahms Studies (1994), this second volume, comprising eight essays by different authors, displays the widest possible variety of historical, analytic, and descriptive approaches. A third volume, also edited by David Brodbeck, is now in preparation.
In the opening essay, "Editing Brahms's Music," George S. Bozarth again debunks the myth that Brahms was always a careful editor of his own music, and he makes a case for the new critical edition of ...