Music, Classical

Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style

Name: Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style
Author: Michael Musgrave
ISBN: 9780521652735

by Michael Musgrave (Editor), Bernard D. Sherman

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Synopsis

Enhanced by an accompanying CD, this book presents documentary evidence of performance in Brahms's time.

About the Author, Michael Musgrave

Michael Musgrave is Emeritus Professor of Music at Goldsmiths' College, University of London but lives in New York. He is author of The Musical Life of the Crystal Palace, The Music of Brahms, Brahms: A German Requiem and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Brahms.

Bernard D. Sherman is the author of Inside Early Music (1997) and the essay 'Authenticity in Music' in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (1998). He contributes regularly to The New York Times, and his work has appeared in Early Music, Historical Performance, The American Brahms Society Newsletter, and many other publications.