age ~79
from Shelburne Falls, MA
A New York Times Notable Book"This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to...become the definitive study of Johannes Brahms."--The Plain DealerJudicious, compassionate, and full of insight into Brahms's human complexity as well as his music, Johannes Brahms is an indispensable biography...
Author
Jan Swafford
Binding
Paperback
Pages
752
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN #
0679745823
EAN Code
9780679745822
ISBN #
2
Jan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who comp...
Author
Jan Swafford
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
1104
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN #
061805474X
EAN Code
9780618054749
ISBN #
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Knopf
ISBN #
10
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN #
8
Founded in 1815, the Handel & Haydn Society is by far the oldest musical organization in America. From its Boston and New England roots in singing schools and societies through the formative days of the early nineteenth century, when the Society's primary models were Handel (the classical forefather...
Author
Teresa Neff, Jan Swafford
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
256
Publisher
David R Godine
ISBN #
1567925243
EAN Code
9781567925241
ISBN #
7
Jan Swafford's biographies have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic...
Author
Jan Swafford
Binding
Audible Audio Edition
Publisher
Tantor Audio
ISBN #
6
An illuminating portrait of a man whose innovative works profoundly influenced the course of twentieth-century American classical music. Jan Swafford's colorful biography first unfolds in Ives's Connecticut hometown of Danbury, then follows Ives to Yale and on to his years in New York, where he bega...
Author
Jan Swafford
Binding
Paperback
Pages
544
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN #
0393317196
EAN Code
9780393317190
ISBN #
4
The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond.The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively -- and opinionated...
Author
Jan Swafford
Binding
Paperback
Pages
624
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN #
0679728058
EAN Code
9780679728054
ISBN #
3
1946
American composer • Classical composer • 21st-century classical composer • Biographer • Author
Company:Tufts University faculty
Harvard University • Yale University
Area of science:Internet • Music history • Music theory • Piano • Musical composition
Specialty:Musical composer
Quintet
Activity:Orchestras