Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall: Between Private and Public Performance

Cambridge University Press, 9/11/2014
EAN 9781107042704, ISBN10: 1107042704

Hardcover, 424 pages, 25.3 x 17.7 x 2.2 cm
Language: English

Johannes Brahms was a consummate professional musician, and a successful pianist, conductor, music director, editor and composer. Yet he also faithfully championed the world of private music-making, creating many works and arrangements for enjoyment in the home by amateurs. This collection explores Brahms' public and private musical identities from various angles: the original works he wrote with amateurs in mind; his approach to creating piano arrangements of not only his own, but also other composers' works; his relationships with his arrangers; the deeper symbolism and lasting legacy of private music-making in his day; and a hitherto unpublished memoir which evokes his Viennese social world. Using Brahms as their focus point, the contributors trace the overlapping worlds of public and private music-making in the nineteenth century, discussing the boundaries between the composer's professional identity and his lifelong engagement with amateur music-making.

Foreword Michael Musgrave
1. Brahms in the home
an introduction Katy Hamilton and Natasha Loges
2. The Joachim quartet concerts at the Berlin Sing-Akademie
Mendelssohnian Geselligkeit in Wilhelmine Germany Robert Eshbach
3. Domesticity in Brahms's string sextets, Opp. 18 and 36 Marie Sumner Lott
4. Where was the home of Brahms's piano works? Katrin Eich
5. Main and shadowy existence(s)
works and arrangements in the oeuvre of Johannes Brahms Michael Struck
6. Brahms arranges his symphonies Robert Pascall
7. At the piano with Joseph and Johannes
Joachim's overtures in Brahms's circle Valerie Woodring Goertzen
8. Brahms and his arrangers Helen Paskins, Katy Hamilton and Natasha Loges
9. Brahms in the Wittgenstein homes
a memoir and letters Styra Avins
10. The construction of gender and mores in Brahms's Mädchenlieder Heather Platt
11. Music inside the home and outside the box
Brahms's vocal quartets in context Katy Hamilton
12. The limits of the Lied
Brahms's Magelone-Romanzen Op. 33 Natasha Loges
13. Being (like) Brahms
emulation and ideology in late nineteenth-century Hausmusik Markus Böggemann
14. The cultural dialectics of chamber music
Adorno and the visual-acoustic imaginary of Bildung Richard Leppert.