Karl Geiringer\'s biography of Brahms is generally regarded as the finest study of the composer ever published in any language.
These letters, exchanged with family and with his famous contemporaries, reveal his loneliness, grim humor, loyalty, painful shyness, and enthusiasm.
Geiringer was curator from 1930-1938, and which contains more than a thousand letters written by and to Brahms.
It is based upon the great body of material in the archives of the Viennese Society of Friends, for which Dr.
Karl Geiringer\'s biography of Brahms is generally regarded as the finest study of the composer ever published in any language