On Brahms and His Circle. Essays and Documentary Studies by Karl Geiringer

Preface         xvii
Introduction         xxi
        Geiringer and Brahms
Abbreviations         xxvii

 

PART 1 - Essays and Articles on Brahms

 1     Brahms the Ambivalent          3
 2     Brahms the Collector of Books and Music          9
 3     Brahms the Music Historian          21
 4     Brahms the Reader of Literature, History, and Philosophy          31
 5     Schumann’s Last Years          49
 6     The Picture Book of the Ettlinger Sisters          61
         On the Youthful Years of Hermann Levi and His Friends
         Johannes Brahms and Julius Allgeyer
 7     Brahms the Symphonist          89
 8     Brahms, Joachim, and the Two String Concertos          101
 9     The Final Days          113

 

PART 2 - Correspondence with Brahms

10     The Brahms Family          121
11     Carl Ferdinand Pohl          193
12     George Grove          203
13     Eusebius Mandyczewski          211
14     Friedrich Chrysander          313
15     George Henschel          339
16     Antonín Dvorák          349
17     Richard Wagner          359
 

 

PART 3 - Editions of Music

18     Brahms’s Performance Arrangements of “Es ist genug”          379
19     The Ophelia Lieder          389
 

 

Index of Compositions          401
Index of Names          409