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Article: A Brahms Reader. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
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A Brahms Reader. By Michael Musgrave. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. [xviii, 344 p. ISBN 0-300-0684-2. $40 (hbk.); ISBN 0-300-00199-0. $19 (pbk.).] Illustrations, index.
Michael Musgrave's A Brahms Reader is a collection of personal musings on various aspects of the life, career, and music of Johannes Brahms, by a distinguished scholar who knows the scope and range of Brahms's music possibly better than anyone alive. Musgrave is the author of the most widely circulated book on the subject (The Music of Brahms [Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985]), the editor of several of Cambridge University's specialized books on the composer, as well as a volume in ...