Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Preface and Acknowledgments from the First Edition

Permissions and Credits

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 Siècle
WALTER FRISCH

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

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

PART II
RECEPTION AND ANALYSIS

Five Early Works by Brahms (1862)
ADOLF SCHUBRING
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)
EDUARD HANSLICK
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)
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)
HEINRICH SCHENKER
TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY KEVIN C. KARNES

Nachtwache II

Letztes Glück

Verlorene Jugend

Brahms’s Four Serious Songs, op. 121 (1914)
MAX KALBECK
TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM MILLER
INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY KEVIN C. KARNES

“A Modern of the Modems”: Brahms’s First Symphony in New York and Boston
SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BY GEORGE S. BOZARTH

PART III
MEMOIRS

Johannes Brahms: The Last Days 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
RICHARD HEUBERGER
TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY STYRA AVINS

Remembering Johannes Brahms: 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
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
Alexander von Zemlinsky and Karl Weigl
TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY WALTER FRISCH

“Dedicated to Johannes Brahms”
PREPARED BY WALTER FRISCH

Notes on the Contributors