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Brahms Studies Analytical and Historical Perspectives, ed. George S. Bozarth. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990. xvii + 472 pp. ISBN 0 19 311922 6 - Brahms and His World, ed. Walter Frisch. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1990. viii + 223 pp. ISBN 0 691 09139 0 (cloth), ISBN 0 691 02713 7 (paper)
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