Lateness and Brahms: Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism
- Author: Notley, Margaret
Lateness and Brahms: Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism
- Author: Notley, Margaret
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Lateness and Brahms takes up the fascinating, yet understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Brahms's conspicuous and puzzling absence in previous scholarly accounts of the time and place raises important questions, and as Margaret Notley demonstrates, the tendency to view him in neutralized, ahistorical terms has made his music seem far less interesting than it truly is. In pursuit of an historical Brahms, Notley focuses on the later chamber music, drawing on various documents and perspectives, but with particular emphasis on the relevance of Western Marxist critical traditions.
Contents
- Introduction, Lateness and Brahms
- Chapter 1: Brahms as Liberal, Bruckner as Other
- Chapter 2: Brahms and the Problem of Late Style
- Chapter 3: Themes and First Movements: Questions of Lateness and Individualism
- Chapter 4: Music Pedagogy, Musicology, and Brahm's Collection of Octaves and Fifths: Historical Decline, Personal Renewal
- Chapter 5: Volksconcerte and Concepts of Genre in Brahm's Vienna
- Chaper 6: Adagios in Brahms's Late Chamber Music: Genre Aesthetics and Cultural Critique
- Epilogue, The Twilight of Liberalism
- Appendix, Brahms's Multimovement Works: Dates of Completion and Tempo Designations for the Slow Movements
- Bibiography
- Index
