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Great Masters: Brahms—His Life and Music

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Overview

Explore how Brahms found unique ways of combining the formal complexity of older Classical genres with the melodic inventiveness, harmonic sophistication, and expressive richness of the Romantic Age.

Topics Covered:
  • By This Professor
  • 01: J.B., We Hardly Knew You!
  • 02: The Brothels of Hamburg
  • 03: The Schumanns
  • 04: The Vagabond Years
  • 05: Maturity
  • 06: Mastery
  • 07: The Tramp of Giants

Taught by

Robert Greenberg, PhD

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