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Brahms in Context offers a fresh perspective on the much-admired nineteenth-century German composer. Including thirty-nine chapters on historical, social and cultural contexts, the book brings together internationally renowned experts in music, law, science, art history and other areas, including many figures whose work is appearing in English for the first time. The essays are accessibly written, with short reading lists aimed at music students and educators. The book opens with personal topics including Brahmss Hamburg childhood, his move to Vienna, and his rich social life. It considers professional matters from finance to publishing and copyright; the musicians who shaped and transmitted his works; and the larger musical styles which influenced him. Casting the net wider, other essays embrace politics, religion, literature, philosophy, art, and science. The book closes with chapters on reception, including recordings, historical performance, his compositional legacy, and a reflection on the power of composer myths.

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Brahms in Context

Brahms in Context offers a fresh perspective on the much-admired nineteenth-century German composer. Including thirty-nine chapters on historical, social and cultural contexts, the book brings together internationally renowned experts in music, law, science, art history and other areas, including many figures whose work is appearing in English for the first time. The essays are accessibly written, with short reading lists aimed at music students and educators. The book opens with personal topics, including Brahmss Hamburg childhood, his move to Vienna and his rich social life. It considers professional matters from finance to publishing and copyright; the musicians who shaped and transmitted his works; and the larger musical styles which influenced him. Casting the net wider, other essays embrace politics, religion, literature, philosophy, art and science. The book closes with chapters on reception, including recordings, historical performance, his compositional legacy and a reflection on the power of composer myths.

Natasha Loges is Head of Postgraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music, London. She has published articles on Brahms, concert history and art song in various volumes and journals including 19th-Century Music and Music & Letters. She is the author of Brahms and His Poets: A Handbook (2017) and a co-editor of Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Katy Hamilton is a freelance researcher, writer and presenter. She has published on the history of the Edinburgh Festival, migr musicians in Britain and variety shows at the Wigmore Hall. She is a co-editor of Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and has contributed to several other projects concerning nineteenth-century lieder.

Brahms in Context

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Natasha Loges

Katy Hamilton

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DOI : 10.1017/9781316681374

Cambridge University Press 2019

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First published 2019

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Names : Loges, Natasha. | Hamilton, Katy, 1982

Title : Brahms in context / edited by Natasha Loges, Katy Hamilton.

Description : Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Identifiers : LCCN 2018048305 | ISBN 9781107163416

Subjects : LCSH : Brahms, Johannes, 18331897. | Brahms, Johannes, 18331897 Criticism and interpretation. | Music 19th century History and criticism.

Classification : LCC ML 410. B 8 B 6837 2019 | DDC 780.92 [B]dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018048305

ISBN 978-1-107-16341-6 Hardback

Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

Dedicated to the memory of our dear friend Robert Pascall, whose brilliant scholarship and boundless generosity have been an inspiration to Brahmsians around the world.

Contents

Renate and Kurt Hofmann

Thomas Synofzik

Camille Crittenden

Karen Leistra-Jones

William Horne

Wolfgang Sandberger

Inga Mai Groote

Jakob Hauschildt

Katrin Eich

Walter Frisch

Valerie Woodring Goertzen

Peter Schmitz

Johannes Behr

Katy Hamilton

Laurenz Ltteken

Matthew Gelbart

George S. Bozarth

Virginia Hancock

Natasha Loges

Leon Botstein

Michael Musgrave

Heather Platt

Anneke Scott

Peter Schmitz

Friedemann Kawohl

David Brodbeck

Natasha Loges

Nicole Grimes

William Vaughan and Natasha Loges

Myles W. Jackson and Katy Hamilton

Johannes Behr

Katy Hamilton

Heather Platt

Ulrike Petersen

Michael Struck

Ivan Hewett

Michael Musgrave

Markus Bggemann

Natasha Loges and Katy Hamilton

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Johannes Behr , studied musicology and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg, Vienna and Marburg. His Masters thesis (2000) examined the genesis of Brahmss piano exercises; his doctoral dissertation (published 2007) explored Brahmss different roles as an adviser, teacher and evaluator of younger composers. In 2006 he joined the team of the Johannes Brahms Complete Edition in Kiel. In addition to his editorial work, he has published several articles, mainly on aspects of Brahms philology.

Markus Bggemann is Professor of Music History at the University of Kassel. His main research interests focus on aspects of modernism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, compositional theory and practice, and contemporary music. He has written about Arnold Schoenberg and his school, fin-de-sicle Vienna and historicism. Recent research includes the early music of Anton Webern and the reception of Bach by contemporary composers.

Leon Botstein is President and Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities of Bard College. He is the music director and conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Now and co-artistic director of the Bard Music Festival. He was music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (200310), where he serves as conductor laureate. He is artistic director of the Grafenegg Campus and Academy, has recorded extensively and edited The Compleat Brahms (1999).

George Bozarth is Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. He specialises in nineteenth-century studies, particularly the music of Johannes Brahms and musical life in Boston. He is also interested in the early history of the piano. He was the founding Executive Director of the American Brahms Society, 19832014. He has published extensively on the music of Brahms, editing essay collections as well as correspondence and documents relating to Robert Keller and George Henschel. He has also edited the complete organ works of Brahms for the Johannes Brahms Gesamtausgabe .

David Brodbeck is Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine. Among his recent publications are Heimat is Where the Heart Is; or, How Hungarian was Goldmark? ( Austrian History Yearbook , 2017), Music and the Marketplace: On the Backstory of Carlos Chvezs Violin Concerto ( Carlos Chvez and His World , 2015) and Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna (2014).

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