Brahms

Contents

• 1. The cultural world of Brahms Michael Musgrave;
• 2. The growth of Brahms's interest in early choral music, and its effect on his own choral compositions Virginia L. Hancock;
• 3. Brahms's view of Mozart Imogen Fellinger;
• 4. Brahms and the definitive text Robert Pascall;
• 5. Synthesizing word and tone: Brahms's setting of Hebbel's 'Voruber' George S. Bozarth;
• 6. Brahms's Tragic Overture: the form of tragedy James Webster;
• 7. Brahms the symphonist Siegfried Kross;
• 8. The retreat from dynamism: a study of Brahms's Fourth Symphony David Osmond-Smith;
• 9. The multi-piece in Brahms: Fantasien Op. 116 Jonathan Dunsby;
• 10. The Vier ernste Gesange Op. 121: enrichment and uniformity Arnold Whitall.