Brahms Studies articles from January 1 1998

Brahms Studies archives from January 1 1998

PREFACE.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 1998... "Brahms as Liberal," "Brahms the Programmatic," "Desire, Repression & Brahms's First Symphony," "Identity and Difference in Brahms's Third Symphony" -- locutions such as these, culled from the titles of recent research on the composer, would...

ABBREVIATIONS.
January 1, 1998... Billroth und Brahms Billroth und Brahms im Briefwechsel, ed. Otto Gottlieb-Billroth (Berlin and Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1935) ...

ONE Editing Brahms's Music.
January 1, 1998... During the past decade and a half, efforts have been under way to lay the groundwork for a new critical edition of the collected works of Johannes Brahms. In March 1983 the Johannes-Brahms-Gesamtausgabe e. V. was founded in Munich with G. Henle...

TWO Brahms's Motet "Es ist das Heil uns kommen her" and the "Innermost Essence of Music".
January 1, 1998... Johannes Brahms's compositional effort during the middle to late 1850s seems relatively unimpressive, at least when viewed against his fiery Romantic works of the early 1850s and the steadier products of his "first maturity" in the early 1860s....

THREE "Als wahres volles Menschenbild": Brahms's Rinaldo and Autobiographical Allusion.
January 1, 1998... In the Brahms canon, Rinaldo, the cantata for tenor solo and male chorus (op.50), has generally been considered a curiosity, if not downright problematic. This assessment has prevailed at all stages of the work's history. Shortly after its...

FOUR Hugo Wolf and the Reception of Brahms's Lieder.
January 1, 1998... Although Hugo Wolfs negative opinion of Brahms's Lieder is well known, his influence on the twentieth century's reception of these works has never been adequately investigated. Wolfs criticisms of Brahms, which appeared in both his reviews for...

FIVE "Echt symphonisch": On the Historical Context of Brahms's Symphonies.
January 1, 1998... The phrase quoted in the title of this essay, "echt symphonisch," or genuinely symphonic, was used in 1870 by the critic Emanuel Klitzsch to describe the main theme of Max Bruch's First Symphony, op.28.(1) (We will return below to the review...

SIX Allusive Irony in Brahms's Fourth Symphony.
January 1, 1998... Brahms's last symphony was written during the summer months of 1884 and 1885 in Murzzuschlag. The composer announced the work independently to two of his closest correspondents, characterizing it in both cases by means of the same metaphor. To...

SEVEN Brahms and the Neapolitan Complex: [b flat]II, [b flat]VI, and Their Multiple Functions in the First Movement of the F-Minor Clarinet Sonata.
January 1, 1998... I Several recent studies have drawn attention to the importance of Neapolitan relations in Brahms's instrumental works. James Webster's seminal article on Schubert and Brahms refers to the "essential role" of Neapolitan relationships.(1)...

EIGHT Brahms's Mendelssohn.
January 1, 1998... He is the Mozart of the nineteenth century, the most brilliant musician, the one who sees most clearly through the contradictions of this period and for the first time reconciles them. And he will not be the last of such artists. After Mozart...