Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall

Between Private and Public Performance

Notexempel

Utgåva:

Bok (inbunden)

Artikelnr.:

979657

Redaktör :

Natasha Loges, Katy Hamilton

Omfattning:

424 sidor; 17,7 × 25,3 cm

Publiceringsår:

2014

Förlag / Tillverkare:

Cambridge University Press

Tillverkarens nr.:

9781107042704

ISBN:

9781107042704

Beskrivning

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with his arrangers; the deeper symbolism and lasting legacy of private music-making in his day; and a hitherto unpublished memoir which evokes his Viennese social world.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.

An interdisciplinary compilation, spanning a range of musical genres as well as historical and philological approaches
Explores repertoire by Brahms's contemporaries and predecessors, and includes a hitherto unpublished memoir
Combines work by leading figures in UK, US and German scholarship, and will appeal to a wide international readership

Innehåll

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