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Title

Brahms in the home and the concert hall : between private and public performance / edited by Katy Hamilton and Natasha Loges.

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Hamilton, Katy, 1982-
• Loges, Natasha

Description

xxvii, 395 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"Johannes Brahms was a consummate professional musician, a successful pianist, conductor, music director, editor and composer. Yet he also faithfully championed the world of private music-making, creating many works and arrangements for enjoyment in the home by amateurs. This collection explores Brahms's public and private musical identities from various angles: the original works he wrote with amateurs in mind; his approach to creating piano arrangements of not only his own, but also other composers' works; his relationships with his arrangers; the deeper symbolism and lasting legacy of private music-making in his day; and a hitherto unpublished memoir which evokes his Viennese social world. Using Brahms as their focus point, the contributors trace the overlapping worlds of public and private music-making in the nineteenth century, discussing the boundaries between the composer's professional identity and his lifelong engagement with amateur music-making"--

Subject

• Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 > Criticism and interpretation
• Music > Germany > 19th century > History and criticism
• MUSIC > General

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Brahms in the home : an introduction / Katy Hamilton and Natasha Loges -- The Joachim Quartet concerts at the Berlin Singakademie : Mendelssohnian Geselligkeit in Wilhelmine Germany / Robert W. Eshbach -- Domesticity in Brahms's string sextets, opp. 18 and 36 / Marie Sumner Lott -- Where was the home of Brahms's piano works? / Katrin Eich -- Main and shadowy existence(s) : works and arrangements in the oeuvre of Johannes Brahms / Michael Struck -- Brahms arranges his symphonies / Robert Pascall -- At the piano with Joseph and Johannes : Joachim's overtures in Brahams's circle / Valerie Woodring Goertzen -- Brahms and his arrangers / Helen Paskins, with Katy Hamilton and Natasha Loges -- Brahms in the Wittgenstein homes : a memoir and letters / Styra Avins -- The construction of gender and mores in Brahams's Mädchenlieder / Heather Platt -- Music inside the home and outside the box : Brahms's vocal quartets in context / Katy Hamilton -- The limits of the lied : Brahams's Magelone-Romanzen Op. 33 / Natasha Loges -- Being (like) Brahms : emulation and ideology in late nineteenth-century Hausmusik / Markus Böggemann -- The cultural dialectics of chamber music : Adorno and the visual-acoustic imaginary of Bildung / Richard Leppert.

ISBN

• 9781107042704 (hardback)
• 1107042704 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2014007602

OCLC

• 872562096
• SCSB-10478922

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library