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