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His Life
I FATHER AND MOTHER
II CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH (1833-1853)
III SEVEN EVENTFUL MONTHS
IV 'STURM UND DRANG' (1854-1856)
V DETMOLD AND HAMBURG (1857-1862)
VI AT HOME AND ABROAD
VII FIRST APPOINTMENT IN VIENNA (1863-1864)
VIII 'A GERMAN REQUIEM'
IX ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE 'GESELLSCHAFT DER MUSIKFREUNDE' (1869-1875) 103
X ON THE SUMMIT (1876-1879)
XI OLD FRIENDS AND NEW (1880-1885)
XII A FRUITFUL AUTUMN (1886-1890)
XIII NEARING THE END (1891.1897) 177
I His Work
XIV BRAHMS'S LIFE WORK
XV COMPOSITIONS FOR THE PIANOFORTE
XVI COMPOSITIONS FOR THE ORGAN
XVII CHAMBER MUSIC
XVIII COMPOSITIONS FOR ORCHESTRA
XIX SONGS FOR ONE, TWO, AND FOUR VOICES WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT
XX SMALLER CHORAL WORKS
LARGE CHORAL WORKS 3o6
III The Man and the Artist
APPENDIX I: BRAHMS WRITES LETTERS
APPENDIX II: BRAHINIS AS A READER AND COLLECTOR 369
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
2. JOSEPH JOACHIM 48
3. CLARA SCHUMANN
5. BRAHMS AS A YOUNG MAN
7. AGATHE VON SIEBOLD
9. OTTILIE HAUER
1o. AUTOGRAPH-FAN OF JOHANN STRAUSS'S STEPDAUGHTER 225
12. LETTER BY BRAHMS TO MANDYCZEWSKI
'STURM UND DRANG' *
the artist in Clara. Soon after the catastrophe, Brahms was able to play his new Trio to her. She fo
These works, however, did not reach perfect completeness, and there came periods when all creative w
Both Agathe and Johannes were to suffer long from the wounds inflicted by this sudden parting. Even
Singakademie had come to an end there was nothing to keep him in Vienna, and he returned to Hamburg
to work out this immortal composition. In the following years the German Requiem *
The triumphal progress of the Requiem was irresistible. Before the month was out it had to be repeat
two years is, however, the Violin Concerto, which Brahms had written with Joachim in mind. It was Jo
T Ischl, on his fifty-eighth birthday, Brahms drew up his will in a letter to his publisher and frie
Only six days after Billroth's passing Brahms suffered another irreparable loss: his `faithful baton
In November 1861, Brahms wrote his first piano duet, Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 2
T the head of Brahms's chamber music, as of his compositions for the pianoforte, stands a single Sch
In November 1870 Joseph Haydn's Feldpartita, in B flat major, was shown to Brahms by his friend C. F
LTOGETHER about 38o songs for one, two, and four voices were published from Brahms's pen.*
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