The Life of Johannes Brahms, Volume II completes Florence May’s biography of the German composer, written by a former piano pupil who had known him personally. Combining first-hand recollection with diligent research, May produced one of the most detailed early English lives of Brahms.
This concluding volume follows the composer through his mature years of fame in Vienna, the creation of his greatest works, and his final period, drawing on letters and personal acquaintance. May’s sympathetic and well-informed account illuminates both the reticent man and his music. Long valued as a primary English-language source, the biography remains an important and affectionate record of Brahms’s life and art.