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 Geiringer Scholarship 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.

Contributor Biographies

Introduction
Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips

Part 1: Intellectual Contexts

1. Brahms in the Schumann Library
Reuben Phillips

2. Johannes Brahms, Connoisseur of Graphic Arts
Styra Avins

3. Settling for Second Best: Brahms's Männerchor-Lieder in Historical Context
David Brodbeck

4. Hearing and Seeing Brahms's Harps
Jane Hines

Part 2: Rehearing Brahms

5. Brahms and the Unreliable Narrative
Janet Schmalfeldt

6. The Transmission and Reception of Courtly Love Poetry in Late Folksong Settings by Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Wilhelm Arnold, and Wilhelm Tappert
Loretta Terrigno

7. Rehearing Brahms's Late Intermezzi: The Eternal Recurrence of Reflection
Tekla Babyak

8. Joachim and Brahms in the Spring and Summer of 1853: Formative Influences and Performative Identities Reconsidered
Katharina Uhde

9. Doesn't Play Well With Others: Performance and Embodiment in Brahms's Chamber Music with Piano
Anna Scott

Part 3: Analytical Perspectives

10. First-Theme Syntax in Brahms's Sonata Forms
Julian Horton

11. Formal Elision in the Chamber Music of Mendelssohn and Brahms: A Case-Study in Romantic Formenlehre
Benedict Taylor

12. Compositional Range versus Compositional Ideal Type: Some Reflections on Brahms and Dvo?ák
Peter H. Smith

13. Intentional Transgressions: Transformation and Prolongation in Selected Works by Brahms
Frank Samarotto

Part 4: Monuments and Memorialization

14. Images, Monuments, Constructs: Johannes Brahms in the Culture of Remembrance
Wolfgang Sandberger

15. Templates for Grief: Brahms's Requiem after the Dresden Firebombing
Martha Sprigge

16. 'Aimez-vous Brahms?' The History of a Question
Daniel Beller-McKenna

Part 6: Afterlives of Brahms

17. Brahms's Serious Songs in the Orchestral Imagination: Two Episodes in the Arrangement History of Op. 121
Frankie Perry

18. Hearing Rihm Hearing Brahms: Symphonie 'Nähe fern' and the Future of Nostalgia
Nicole Grimes

19. Spectres and 'Derangements': Michael Finnissy's Summonings of Brahms the Progressive
Edward Venn

Bibliography
Index