PREFACE.

Publication: Brahms Studies

Publication Date: 01-JAN-01

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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 final year of the composer's life. Especially noteworthy are those passages published here for the first time regarding Brahms's relationships with such figures as Eduard Hanslick, Eusebius Mandyczewski, and Max Klinger, passages that, for one reason or another, Kalbeck had suppressed from his own published excerpts of this revealing document.

Each of the next two essays draws lessons about Brahms's artistic development from a work that has tended to be...

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