Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall

Contents

• 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 Madchenlieder 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 Boeggemann;
• 14. The cultural dialectics of chamber music: Adorno and the visual-acoustic imaginary of Bildung Richard Leppert.