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JOHANNES BRAHMS AND HIS FRIENDS

Breitkopf & Härtel

This 150-page book contains a fascinating array of piano works by Brahms’s friends. These include well-known composers such as Robert and Clara Schumann, but the majority of the book is devoted to lesser-known musical friends such as Elizabeth and Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Albert Dietrich, and Otto Dessoff. Many of these works are out of print or are published here for the first time, and although compilations by peripheral Romantic composers often contain trivial trifles of salon music,