Rethinking Brahms

Nicole Grimes is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture, Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression (co-edited with Siobhán Donovan and Wolfgang Marx), and Mendelssohn Perspectives (co-edited with Angela Mace), and numerous articles and chapters on the music of Brahms, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Schoenberg, Liszt, Wolfgang Rihm, and Donnacha Dennehy. Her research has been funded by a Marie Curie International Fellowship from the European Commission, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is currently at work on a large-scale analytical project on the music of Emilie Mayer (1812-1883).Reuben Phillips is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Music in Oxford. He was a doctoral student at Princeton University and was awarded the Karl GeiringerScholarship of the American Brahms Society for his PhD dissertation that explored Brahms's engagement with German Romantic literature. He has been the recipient of research grants from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung in Berlin, Edinburgh University's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and of an Edison Fellowship from the British Library. In addition to his work on Brahms, he has written articles on the British music scholar Donald Francis Tovey and the exhumation and reburial of composers in late nineteenth-century Vienna.

This volume includes original approaches to Brahms's music and pursues innovative methodologies to interrogate the historical, cultural, political and artistic contexts of his creativity. Rethinking Brahms is well worth the read.

• Contributor Biographies IntroductionNicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips Part 1: Intellectual Contexts 1. Brahms in the Schumann LibraryReuben Phillips 2. Johannes Brahms, Connoisseur of Graphic Arts Styra Avins 3. Settling for Second Best: Brahms's Männerchor-Lieder in Historical ContextDavid Brodbeck 4. Hearing and Seeing Brahms's HarpsJane Hines Part 2: Rehearing Brahms 5. Brahms and the Unreliable NarrativeJanet Schmalfeldt 6. The Transmission and Reception of Courtly Love Poetry in Late Folksong Settings by Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Wilhelm Arnold, and Wilhelm TappertLoretta Terrigno 7. Rehearing Brahms's Late Intermezzi: The Eternal Recurrence of ReflectionTekla Babyak 8. Joachim and Brahms in the Spring and Summer of 1853: Formative Influences and Performative Identities ReconsideredKatharina Uhde 9. Doesn't Play Well With Others: Performance and Embodiment in Brahms's Chamber Music with PianoAnna Scott Part 3: Analytical Perspectives 10. First-Theme Syntax in Brahms's Sonata FormsJulian Horton 11. Formal Elision in the Chamber Music of Mendelssohn and Brahms: A Case-Study in Romantic FormenlehreBenedict Taylor 12. Compositional Range versus Compositional Ideal Type: Some Reflections on Brahms and Dvo?ákPeter H. Smith 13. Intentional Transgressions: Transformation and Prolongation in Selected Works by BrahmsFrank Samarotto Part 4: Monuments and Memorialization 14. Images, Monuments, Constructs: Johannes Brahms in the Culture of RemembranceWolfgang Sandberger 15. Templates for Grief: Brahms's Requiem after the Dresden FirebombingMartha Sprigge 16. 'Aimez-vous Brahms?' The History of a QuestionDaniel Beller-McKenna Part 6: Afterlives of Brahms 17. Brahms's Serious Songs in the Orchestral Imagination: Two Episodes in the Arrangement History of Op. 121Frankie Perry 18. Hearing Rihm Hearing Brahms: Symphonie 'Nähe fern' and the Future of NostalgiaNicole Grimes 19. Spectres and 'Derangements': Michael Finnissy's Summonings of Brahms the ProgressiveEdward Venn BibliographyIndex