The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms

by Barbara Owen

Influenced by Robert and Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim, Johannes Brahms not only learned to play the organ at the beginning of his career, but also wrote significant compositions for the instrument as a result of his early counterpoint study. He composed for the organ only sporadically or as part of larger choral and instrumental works in his subsequent career. During the final year of his life, however, he returned to pure organ composition with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195311078
• ISBN13: 9780195311075
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"