Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation

Walter Frisch is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University and is Consulting Editor for 19th-Century Music.

• List of Longer Musical ExamplesPreface1 Prologue: Brahms and the Schoenberg Critical Tradition2 Transformation and Development in Early Brahms, 1852-18543 Developing Variation in Brahms's First Maturity, 1861-18624 Song and Chamber Music, 1864-18795 Symphony, 1877-18856 The Late Style, 1886-18967 Epilogue: Developing Variation in Early Schoenberg, 1892-1905Appendix of Longer Musical ExamplesBibliography of Works CitedIndex of Brahms's WorksGeneral Index