Between Work and Play: Brahms as Performer of His Own Music

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments from the First Edition xi
5. Permissions and Credits xiii
6. PART I. ESSAYS
7. Time and Memory: Concert Life, Science, and Music in Brahms’s Vienna 3
8. Johannes Brahms, Solitary Altruist 27
9. Brahms the Godfather 41
10. Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms 57
11. The Pianos of Johannes Brahms 73
12. Brahms, the Third Symphony, and the New German School 95
13. The “Brahms Fog”: On Analyzing Brahmsian Influences at the Fin de Siècle 117
14. Between Work and Play: Brahms as Performer of His Own Music 137
15. Brahms, Max Klinger, and the Promise of the Gesamtkunstwerk: Revisiting the Brahms-Phantasie (1894) 167
16. PART II. RECEPTION AND ANALYSIS
17. Five Early Works by Brahms (1862) 195
18. Discovering Brahms (1862–72) 217
19. The Brahms Symphonies (1887) 233
20. Brahms’s A Cappella Choral Pieces, op. 104 253
21. Brahms’s Four Serious Songs, op. 121 (1914) 267
22. “A Modern of the Moderns”: Brahms’s First Symphony in New York and Boston 287
23. PART III. MEMOIRS
24. Johannes Brahms: The Last Days Memories and Letters 307
25. My Early Acquaintance with Brahms 339
26. Remembering Johannes Brahms Brahms and His Krefeld Friends 349
27. Johannes Brahms as Man, Teacher, and Artist 381
28. Brahms and the Newer Generation 425
29. PART IV. “DEDICATED TO JOHANNES BRAHMS”
30. “Dedicated to Johannes Brahms” 433
31. Index 443
32. Notes on the Contributors 459