Great Masters: Brahms—His Life and Music

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

Course Description

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.

Syllabus

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
08: Farewells

Taught by

Robert Greenberg, PhD

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