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Jan Swafford
From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a child, the neglect, the pauper's grave. None of these myths are true, at least not at face value. Wolfgang Amadè Mozart is not
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Jan Swafford
A preeminent composer, music scholar, and biographer presents an engaging and accessible introduction to classical music For many of us, classical music is something serious -- something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at
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Jan Swafford
Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year'Magisterial, warm, and engaging... A triumph of scholarship and musical affinity... Jan Swafford is to be saluted.'Independent Jan Swafford's biographies of composers Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have
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Jan Swafford
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19th-Century Music. 24:268-275
The story has been told for a hundred years: how in his early teens Johannes Brahms was forced by his family’s poverty to play piano all night in sailors’ dives called Animierlokale (roughly, “arousal pubs”) on the Hamburg waterfront. There,
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The Musical Times. 141:61
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American Music. 17:200
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The Hudson Review. 50:129
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Jan Swafford
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American Music. 13:470
By 1905 Charles Ives had reached a creative, spiritual, and physical crisis that threatened not only his future as an artist but his life as well. A near-prodigy as composer and a professional church organist from his teens, Ives had taken a thorough