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Robert Stumpf, II responds to Bob Chen:
>> I would recommend "Johannes Brahms: A Biography," by Jan Swafford
>> (Knopf). Very readable, lively, and more or less straightforward. He
>>speculates a bit about Brahms' early life,
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>I am sorry, but I would have to disagree. I found the book so
>"speculative" that I couldn't finish it.
If you check Swafford's notes, and read the sources he quotes, which
provide first hand testimony by a contemporary of Brahms, for instance,
you may revise your opinion. I wouldn't call it speculative.
Jim Tobin
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