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.
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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
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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
Illustrations
Music Examples
Notes on Contributors
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).