| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 461 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Bard Music Festival |
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Bard Music Festival series.
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| Language |
Some material translated from German. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A key collection of essays for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in Brahm's life, work, and times on the occasion of a music festival held at Bard College, August 1990. |
| Contents |
Essays. Time and memory : concert life, science, and music in Brahms's Vienna / Leon Botstein -- Johannes Brahms, solitary altruist / Peter F. Ostwald -- Brahms the godfather / Styra Avins -- Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms / Nancy B. Reich -- The pianos of Johannes Brahms / George S. Bozarth and Stephen H. Brady -- Brahms, The third symphony, and the new German school / David Brodbeck -- The "Brahms" fog : on analyzing Brahmsian influences at the fin de siecle / Walter Frisch -- Between work and play : Brahms as performer of his own music / Roger Moseley -- Brahms, Max Klinger, and the promise of Gesamtkunstwerk : revisiting the Brahms-Phantasie (1894) / Kevin C. Karnes -- Reception and analysis. Five early works by Brahms (1862) / Adolf Schubring -- Discovering Brahms (1862-72) / Eduard Hanslick -- The Brahms symphonies (1887) / Hermann Kretzschmar -- Brahms's a cappella choral pieces, op. 104 (1892) / Heinrich Schenker -- Brahms's Four serious songs, op. 121 (1914) / Max Kalbeck -- "A modern of moderns" : Brahms's First symphony in New York and Boston / selected and annotated by George S. Bozarth -- Memoirs -- Johannes Brahms : the last days, memories and letters / Eduard Hanslick -- My early acquaintance with Brahms / Richard Heuberger -- Remembering Johannes Brahms : Brahms and his Krefeld friends / Heinz von Beckerath -- Johannes Brahms as man, teacher, and artist / Gustav Jenner -- Brahms and the newer generation : personal reminiscences / by Alexander von Zemlinsky and Karl Weigl -- "Dedicated to Johannes Brahms." |
| Subject |
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897.
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Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Musical analysis.
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| Added Author |
Frisch, Walter, 1951-
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Karnes, Kevin, 1972-
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Bard Music Festival.
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| ISBN |
9780691143446 (pbk.) |
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0691143447 (pbk.) |
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