Thank you very much fror your interest.  Bob Chen wrote:


>1) "Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters," edited and annotated by Styra
>Avins (Oxford).  ...

I think I will start with this one...

>2) "Johannes Brahms: A Biography," by Jan Swafford (Knopf).  Very
>readable, lively, and more or less straightforward.  He speculates a bit
>about Brahms' early life, but I don't think he veers too far into Maynard
>Solomon, psychologist territory.

Can you be a bit more explicit about the "Maynard Solomon territory" as I
am a psychologist mysell (hough currently teaching history).

iskender