The Cambridge Companion to Brahms

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on contributors
• Chronology
• Preface
• Part I . Stages of Creative Development and Reception:
• 1. Brahms the Hamburg musician 1833-1862 Kurt Hofmann
• 2. Years of transition: Brahms and Vienna 1862-1875 Michael Musgrave
• 3. Brahms and his audience: the later Viennese years, 1875-1897 Leon Botstein
• Part II . The Music: Genre, Structure and Reference:
• 4. Opposition and integration in the piano music John Rink
• 5. Medium and meaning: new aspects of the chamber music David Brodbeck
• 6. Formal perspectives on the symphonies Kofi Agawu
• 7. 'Veiled symphonies'? The concertos Malcolm MacDonald
• 8. The scope and significance of the choral music Daniel Beller-McKenna
• 9. Words for music: the songs for solo voice and piano Michael Musgrave
• Part III . Brahms Today: Some Personal Responses:
• 10. Conducting Brahms Roger Norrington with Michael Musgrave
• 11. The editor's Brahms Robert Pascall
• 12. A photograph of Brahms Hugh Wood
• Notes
• List of works
• Bibliography
• Index.