Brahms Studies articles

Recent articles from Brahms Studies

PREFACE.
January 1, 2001... Like its predecessors in the series, this third volume of Brahms Studies includes essays covering a wide range of topics and methodological approaches. The collection opens with a documentary study, by Sandra McColl, of the diary kept by Brahms's friend and biographer Max Kalbeck during the...

ABBREVIATIONS.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2001... Brahms Max Kalbeck, Johannes Brahms, 4 vols. in 8, orig. ed. (Berlin, 1908-13); rev. ed. (Berlin, 1915-21; reprint, Tutzing: Schneider, 1976) Briefwechsel Johannes Brahms Briefwechsel, 19 vols. to date, 16 orig. vols., rev. ed. (Berlin, 1912-22; reprint, Tutzing: Schneider,...

ONE Max Kalbeck: Excerpts from the Diary of 1897.(documenting the last days of Johannes Brahms)
January 1, 2001... The world at large first learned of the existence of Max Kalbeck's diary of 1897 in the feuilleton of the Neues Wiener Tagblatt of 3 and 4 April 1907, written in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Brahms's death. Here, introducing a number of quotations from this diary, Kalbeck...

The Alto Rhapsody: Psychology, Intertextuality, and Brahms's Artistic Development.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... I Almost everyone counts the Alto Rhapsody, op. 53, among Brahms's most moving and successful works. It received considerable attention during the Brahms year, 1983, which witnessed the publication of a fine facsimile edition of the autograph as well as several analytical and...

Brahms's Variations on a Hungarian Song, op. 21, no. 2: "Betrachte dann die Beethovenschen und, wenn Du willst, meine".(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Among all the tools we have to understand Brahms as a variation composer, the most important is the music itself. In this context, his Variations on a Hungarian Song, op. 21, no. 2, has been woefully underexplored--and this despite a tantalizing array of unica.(1) It is Brahms's only...