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Part I. Biography. 1833-1845. Family and parentage ; Childhood ; Early lessons ; First appearance as pianist ; Eduard Marxsen -- 1845-1853. Study in Hamburg ; Winsen ; Early compositions ; Tour with Remenyi ; Joachim ; Visit to Liszt at Weimar -- 1853. Gottingen ; Joachim's influence ; Rhine journey ; Visit to Schumann at Dusseldorf ; "Neue Bahnen" ; First visit to Leipzig ; First publications -- 1854-1856. Hanover ; Schumann's illness ; Dusseldorf ; Clara Schumann ; Hanslick ; Desire for further study ; First appearance at Leipzig ; Julius Stockhausen ; Death of Schumann -- 1856-1859. Detmold ; Joachim's letter to Liszt ; D minor pianoforte concerto ; Agathe von Siebold ; Fiasco of D minor concerto at Leipzig -- 1859-1862. Concerts in Hamburg ; Ladies' choir ; Last season in Detmold ; Manifesto against "New German" school ; Hamm ; Albert Dietrich ; Hamburg Philharmonic Society ; Handel variations and pianoforte quartets ; First visit to Vienna -- 1862-1863. Concerts in Vienna ; Joseph Hellmesberger ; Success as pianist ; Meeting with Wagner ; Summer in Hamburg ; Appointment as conductor of Vienna Singakademie -- 1863-1867. Brahms as conductor in Vienna ; Resignation from Singakademie ; Death of his mother ; Lichtenthal near Baden ; Remarriage of his father ; Concert tours ; Meeting with Hans von Bulow ; German requiem -- 1867-1871. Tours with Joachim and Stockhausen ; Contretemps in Copenhagen ; Requiem in Bremen ; Oldenburg ; Years of vocal compositions ; Permanent home in Vienna -- 1872-1876. Death of Johann Jakob Brahms ; Appointment as conductor of Gesellschaft choir in Vienna ; Success as conductor ; Summer at Tutzing ; Triumph at Leipzig ; Elizabeth von Herzogenberg ; Haydn variations ; Sir George Henschel ; J.V. Widmann ; First visit to Holland ; C minor symphony -- 1877-1881. Refusal of Cambridge degree ; Attitude towards opera ; Hans Richter conducts D major symphony ; Interest of Bulow ; First journey to Italy ; Violin concerto ; Hamburg Philharmonic festival ; Doctor's degree at Breslau ; G major violin sonata ; Summer at Ischl ; Meeting with Liszt in Budapest ; B flat pianoforte concerto ; Quarrel with Joachim -- 1881-1889. Hans von Bulow and the Meiningen orchestra ; Richard Muhlfeld ; Death of Wagner ; F major symphony ; E minor symphony ; Quarrel with Bulow ; First summer at Thun ; Period of chamber-music ; Honours and distinctions ; Double concerto ; Refusal to conduct in London ; Death of Marxsen -- 1889-1896. Freedom of city of Hamburg ; Further honours ; Fritz Steinbach at Meiningen ; Clarinet works ; Brahms' will ; Death of Elizabeth von Herzogenberg ; Last period of pianoforte writing ; Last journey to Italy ; Deutsche Volkslieder ; Death of Bulow ; Johann Strauss ; Eugen d'Albert ; Last visit to Clara Schumann ; Last appearance as conductor -- 1896-1897. Legacy from Adolf Behrens ; Four serious songs ; Death of Clara Schumann ; Last summer at Ischl ; Illness ; Carlsbad ; Last months in Vienna ; Last appearance with Joachim ; Last public ovation ; Death -- Part II. Brahms as a man - his characteristics. Personal characteristics: Brahms as pianist and teacher ; Brahms and his contemporaries ; The greatness of Brahms -- Part III. Pianoforte works. Sonata in C major, op. 1 ; Sonata in F sharp minor, op. 2 ; Scherzo in E flat minor, op. 4 ; Sonata in F minor, op. 5 ; Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann, op. 9 ; Four ballades, op. 10 ; Variations on an original theme, op. 21, no. 1 ; Variations on a Hungarian song, op. 21, no. 2 ; Variations and fugue on a theme of Handel, op. 24 ; Studies (variations on a theme of Paganini), op. 35 ; Waltzes, op. 39 ; Klavierstucke, op. 76 ; Two rhapsodies, op. 79 ; Fantasias, op. 116 ; Three intermezzi, op. 117 ; Klavierstucke, op. 118 ; Klavierstucke, op. 119 ; Concerto in D minor, op. 15 ; Concerto in B flat major, op. 83 ; Studies and arrangements ; Hungarian dances ; Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann, pianoforte duet, op. 23 -- Part IV. Pianoforte chamber-music. Sonata for pianoforte and violin in G major, op. 78 ; Sonata for pianoforte and violin in A major, op. 100 ; Sonata for pianoforte and violin in D minor, op. 108 ; Sonatensatz for pianoforte and violin, op. posth. ; Sonata for pianoforte and violoncello in E minor, op. 38 ; Sonata for pianoforte and violoncello in F major, op. 99 ; Trio in B major, op. 8 ; Trio in C major, op. 87 ; Trio in C minor, op. 101 ; Horn trio in E flat major, op. 40 ; Pianoforte quartet in G minor, op. 25 ; Pianoforte quartet in A major, op. 26 ; Pianoforte quartet in c minor, op. 60 ; Pianoforte quintet in F minor, op. 34 ; Clarinet trio in A minor, op. 114 ; Clarinet sonata in F minor, op. 120, no. 1 ; Clarinet sonata in E flat major, op. 120, no. 2. |
