Brahms and His World : : Revised Edition / / ed. by Kevin C. Karnes, Walter Frisch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Avins, Styra,; Botstein, Leon,; Bozarth, George S.,; Brady, Stephen H.,; Brodbeck, David,; Frisch, Walter,; Hanslick, Eduard,; Heuberger, Richard,; Jenner, Gustav,; Kalbeck, Max,; Karnes, Kevin C.,; Kretzschmar, Hermann,; Moseley, Roger,; Ostwald, Peter F.,; Reich, Nancy B.,; Schenker, Heinrich,; Schubring, Adolf,; Weigl, Karl,; von Beckerath, Heinz,; von Zemlinsky, Alexander,
• HerausgeberIn: Frisch, Walter,; Karnes, Kevin C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Revised
• Language: English
• Series: The Bard Music Festival ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.) :; 22 halftones. 1 line illus. 27 musical examples.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Preface and Acknowledgments from the First Edition -- Permissions and Credits -- PART I. ESSAYS -- Time and Memory: Concert Life, Science, and Music in Brahms's Vienna -- Johannes Brahms, Solitary Altruist -- Brahms the Godfather -- Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms -- The Pianos of Johannes Brahms -- Brahms, the Third Symphony, and the New German School -- The "Brahms Fog": On Analyzing Brahmsian Influences at the Fin de Siècle -- Between Work and Play: Brahms as Performer of His Own Music -- Brahms, Max Klinger, and the Promise of the Gesamtkunstwerk: Revisiting the Brahms-Phantasie (1894) -- PART II. RECEPTION AND ANALYSIS -- Five Early Works by Brahms (1862) -- Discovering Brahms (1862-72) -- The Brahms Symphonies (1887) -- Brahms's A Cappella Choral Pieces, op. 104 -- Brahms's Four Serious Songs, op. 121 (1914) -- "A Modern of the Moderns": Brahms's First Symphony in New York and Boston -- PART III. MEMOIRS -- Johannes Brahms: The Last Days Memories and Letters -- My Early Acquaintance with Brahms -- Remembering Johannes Brahms Brahms and His Krefeld Friends -- Johannes Brahms as Man, Teacher, and Artist -- Brahms and the Newer Generation -- PART IV. "DEDICATED TO JOHANNES BRAHMS" -- "Dedicated to Johannes Brahms" -- Index -- Notes on the Contributors