Brahms and His World

Revised Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-691-14344-6
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

Reihe: The Bard Music Festival

Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers. In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close to the vision behind the original book while updating its contents to reflect new perspectives on Brahms that have developed over the past two decades. To this end, the original essays by leading experts are retained and revised, and supplemented by contributions from a new generation of Brahms scholars. Together, they consider such topics as Brahms's relationship with Clara and Robert Schumann, his musical interactions with the "New German School" of Wagner and Liszt, his influence upon Arnold Schoenberg and other young composers, his approach to performing his own music, and his productive interactions with visual artists. The essays are complemented by a new selection of criticism and analyses of Brahms's works published by the composer's contemporaries, documenting the ways in which Brahms's music was understood by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century audiences in Europe and North America. A new selection of memoirs by Brahms's friends, students, and early admirers provides intimate glimpses into the composer's working methods and personality. And a catalog of the music, literature, and visual arts dedicated to Brahms documents the breadth of influence exerted by the composer upon his contemporaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frisch, Walter

Karnes, Kevin C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

Preface and Acknowledgments from the First Edition xi

Permissions and Credits xiii

PART I: ESSAYS

Time and Memory: Concert Life, Science, and Music in Brahms's Vienna by LEON BOTSTEIN 3

Johannes Brahms, Solitary Altruist by PETER F. OSTWALD 27

Brahms the Godfather by STYRA AVINS 41

Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms by NANCY B. REICH 57

The Pianos of Johannes Brahms by GEORGE S. BOZARTH AND STEPHEN H. BRADY 73

Brahms, the Third Symphony, and the New German School by DAVID BRODBECK 95

The "Brahms Fog": On Analyzing Brahmsian Influences at the Fin de Si?cle by WALTER FRISCH 117

Between Work and Play: Brahms as Performer of His Own Music by ROGER MOSELEY 137

Brahms, Max Klinger, and the Promise of the Gesamtkunstwerk: Revisiting the Brahms-Phantasie (1894) by KEVIN C. KARNES 167

PART II: RECEPTION AND ANALYSIS

Five Early Works by Brahms (1862) by ADOLF SCHUBRING 195

TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY WALTER FRISCH

Piano Sonata in C Major, op. 1

Piano Sonata in F-sharp Minor, op. 2

Piano Sonata in F Minor, op. 5

Piano Trio in B Major, op. 8 [1854 version]

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, op. 15

Discovering Brahms (1862-72) by EDUARD HANSLICK 217

TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY KEVIN C. KARNES

Johannes Brahms (1862-63)

Serenade No. 1 in D Major, op. 11 (1862)

German Requiem, op. 45 (1867)

Sextet No. 2 in G Major, op. 36 (1867)

Triumphlied, op. 55, and Schicksalslied, op. 54 (1872)

The Brahms Symphonies (1887) 233

HERMANN KRETZSCHMAR

TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE, INTRODUCED BY KEVIN C. KARNES

Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, op. 68

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 73

Symphony No. 3 in F Major, op. 90

Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, op. 98

Brahms's A Cappella Choral Pieces, op. 104 (1892) 253

HEINRICH SCHENKER

TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY KEVIN C. KARNES

Nachtwache I

Nachtwache II

Letztes Gl?ck

Verlorene Jugend

Im Herbst

Brahms's Four Serious Songs, op. 121 (1914) 267

MAX KALBECK

TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM MILLER

INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY KEVIN C. KARNES

"A Modern of the Moderns": Brahms's First Symphony 287

in New York and Boston

SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BY GEORGE S. BOZARTH

PART III: MEMOIRS

Johannes Brahms: The Last Days 307

Memories and Letters

EDUARD HANSLICK

TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE, ANDREW HOMAN, AND CAROLINE HOMAN

INTRODUCED BY KEVIN C. KARNES

ANNOTATED BY LEON BOTSTEIN AND KEVIN C. KARNES

My Early Acquaintance with Brahms 339

RICHARD HEUBERGER

TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY STYRA AVINS

Remembering Johannes Brahms: 349

Brahms and His Krefeld Friends

HEINZ VON BECKERATH

TRANSLATED BY JOSEF EISINGER

INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY STYRA AVINS

Johannes Brahms as Man, Teacher, and Artist 381

GUSTAV JENNER

TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE AND ELISABETH KAESTNER

INTRODUCED BY KEVIN C. KARNES

ANNOTATED BY LEON BOTSTEIN AND KEVIN C. KARNES

Brahms and the Newer Generation: Personal Reminiscences by 425

Alexander von Zemlinsky and Karl Weigl

TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY WALTER FRISCH

PART IV

"Dedicated to Johannes Brahms" 433

PREPARED BY WALTER FRISCH

Index 443

Notes on the Contributors 459

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Frisch is the H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of "Brahms: The Four Symphonies" and "Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation". Kevin C. Karnes is assistant professor of music history at Emory University. He is the author of "Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History: Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna".