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Volume I. Personal recollections -- 1760-1845. The Brahms family ; Johann Jakob Brahms, his youth and marriage ; Birth and childhood of Johannes ; The Alster Pavilion ; Otto F. W. Cossel ; Johannes gives a private subscription concert -- 1845-1848. Edward Marxsen ; Johannes' first instruction in theory ; Herr Adolph Giesemann ; Winsen-an-der-Luhe ; Lischen ; Choral Society of school-teachers ; "A.B.C." Part-song by Johannes ; The Amtsvogt Blume ; First public appearance ; First visit to the opera -- 1848-1853. Johannes' first public concert ; Years of struggle ; Hamburg Lokals ; Louise Japha ; Edward Reményi ; Sonata in F sharp minor ; First concert-tour as Reményi's accompanist ; Concerts at Winsen, Celle, Lüneburg and Hildesheim ; Musical parties in 1853 ; Leipzig and Weimar ; Robert Schumann ; Joseph Joachim -- 1853. Brahms and Reményi visit Joachim in Hanover ; Concert at Court ; Visit to Liszt ; Joachim and Brahms in Gottingen ; Wasielewski, Reinecke and Hiller ; First meeting with Schumann ; Albert Dietrich -- 1853. Schumann's article "New Paths" ; Johannes in Hanover ; Sonatas in C major and F minor ; Visit to Leipzig ; First publications ; Julius Otto Grimm ; Return to Hamburg via Hanover ; Lost Violin Sonata ; Songs ; Marxsen's influence as a teacher -- 1854-1855. Brahms at Hanover ; Hans von Bülow ; Robert and Clara Schumann in Hanover ; Schumann's illness ; Brahms in Düsseldorf ; Variations on Schumann's theme in F sharp minor ; B major Trio ; First public performance in New York ; First attempt at symphony -- 1855-1856. Lower Rhine Festival ; Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt ; Edward Hanslick ; Brahms as a concert-player ; Retirement and study ; Frau Schumann in Vienna and London ; Julius Stockhausen ; Schumann's death -- 1856-1858. Brahms and Joachim in Düsseldorf ; Grimm in Göttingen ; Brahms' visit to Detmold ; Carl von Meysenbug ; Court Concertmeister Bargheer ; Joachim and Liszt ; Brahms returns to Detmold ; Summer at Göttingen ; Pianoforte Concerto in D minor and Orchestral Serenade in D major tried privately in Hanover -- 1859. First public performance of the Pianoforte Concerto in Hanover, Leipzig and Hamburg ; Brahms, Joachim and Stockhausen appear together in Hamburg ; First public performance of the Serenade in D major ; Ladies' Choir ; Fraulein Friedchen Wagner ; Compositions for women's chorus -- 1859-1861. Third season at Desmold ; "Ave Maria" and "Begräbnissgesang" performed in Hamburg and Göttingen ; Second Serenade first performed in Hamburg ; Lower Rhine Festival ; Summer at Bonn ; Music at Herr Kyllmann's ; Variations on an original theme first performed in Leipzig by Frau Schumann ; "Marienlieder" ; First public performance of the Sextet in B flat in Hanover -- 1861-1862. Concert season in Hamburg ; Frau Denninghoff-Giesemann ; Brahms at Hamm ; Herr Volckers and his daughters ; Dietrich's visit to Brahms ; Music at the Halliers' and Wagners' ; First public performance of the G minor Quartet ; Brahms at Oldenburg ; Second Serenade performed in New York ; First and second Pianoforte Quartets ; "Magelone Romances" ; First public performances of the Handel Variations and Fugue in Hamburg and Leipzig by Frau Schumann ; Brahms' departure for Vienna -- Appendix no. I. The Magelone Romances, Pierre de Provence ; Appendix no. II. Rules of the Hamburg Ladies' Choir -- |
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Volume II. 1862-1864. Vienna ; Musical societies ; Leading musicians ; The Prater ; Brahms' appearance at a Hellmesberger quartet concert ; Brahms' first concert in Vienna ; Conductorship of the Hamburg Philharmonic ; First serenade at Gesellschaft concert ; Brahms' second concert ; Richard Wagner ; Second serenade at Vienna Philharmonic concert ; Return to Hamburg ; Brahms elected conductor of the Vienna Singakademie ; Return to Vienna ; Singakademie concerts under Brahms -- 1864-1867. Frau Schumann in Baden-Baden ; Circle of friends there ; Hermann Levi ; Madame Pauline Viardot-Garcia ; The Landgräfin of Hesse and the Pianoforte Quintet ; Death of Frau Brahms ; Concert-journey ; The Horn Trio ; Frau Caroline Schnack ; Last visit to Detmold ; First Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello ; The German Requiem ; Brahms at Zürich ; Billroth ; Brahms and Joachim on a concert-tour in Switzerland ; Hans von Bülow ; Reinthaler -- 1867-1868. Brahms' holiday journey with his father and Gänsbacher ; Austrian concert-tour with Joachim ; The German Requiem ; Performance of the first three choruses in Vienna ; Tour with Stockhausen in North Germany and Denmark ; Performance of the German Requiem in Bremen cathedral ; First performance of Pianoforte Quintet -- 1868-1869. Maz Bruch's E flat minor Symphony ; Brahms at Bonn ; Friendship with Hermann Deiters ; The added number of the German Requiem ; Frau Schumann and Brahms ; Brahms settles finally in Vienna ; Song publications of 1868 ; Brahms and Stockhausen give concerts in Vienna and Budapest -- 1869-1872. Brahms and opera ; Professor Heinrich Bulthaupt ; The Liebeslieder ; First performance ; The rhapsody (Goethe's "Harzreise") performed privately at Carlsruhe ; First public performance at Jena ; Geheimrath Gille ; The "Song of Triumph" ; Performance of first chorus at Bremen ; Bernhard Scholz ; The "Song of Destiny" ; First performance ; Death of Johann Jakob Brahms ; First performance of completed "Triumphlied" at Carlsruhe ; Summary of Brahms' work as a composer since 1862 -- 1872-1876. Publication of the "Triumphlied," with a dedication to the German Emperor William I ; Brahms conducts the "Gesellschaft concerts" ; Schumann festival at Bonn ; Professor and Frau Engelmann ; String quartets ; First performances ; Anselm Feuerbach in Vienna ; Variations for orchestra ; First performances ; "Triumphlied" at Cologne, Basle and Zurich ; Resignation of appointment as "Artistic director" to the Gesellschaft ; Third Pianoforte Quartet -- 1876-1878. Tour in Holland ; Third String Quartet ; C minor Symphony ; First performances ; Varying impressions created by the work in Vienna and Leipzig ; Brahms and Widmann at Mannheim ; Second Symphony ; Vienna and Leipzig differ as to its merits -- 1878-1881. Hamburg Philharmonic jubilee festival ; Violin Concerto ; First performance by Joachim ; Pianoforte Pieces, op. 76 ; Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin ; First performances ; Brahms at Crefeld ; Rhapsodies for Pianoforte ; Heuberger's studies with Brahms ; Second Schumann festival at Bonn ; The two overtures ; Breslau honorary degree -- 1881-1885. Second Pianoforte Concerto ; First visit to the ducal castle of Meiningen ; "Nänie" ; Frau Henriette Feuerbach ; Hans von Bülow in Leipzig ; Brahms' friends in Vienna ; Dr. and Frau Fellinger ; Pianoforte Trio in C major ; First String Quintet ; The "Parzenlied" ; Third Symphony -- 1885-1888. Vienna Tonkünstlerverein ; Fourth Symphony ; Hugo Wolf ; Brahms at Thun ; Three new works of chamber music ; First performances of the Second Violoncello Sonata by Brahms and Hausmann ; Frau Celestine Truxa ; Double Concerto ; Marxsen's death ; Eugen d'Albert ; The Gipsy songs ; Conrat's translations from the Hungarian ; Brahms and Jenner ; The "Zum Rothen Igel" ; Ehrbar's asparagus luncheons ; Third Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin -- 1889-1895. Hamburg honorary citizenship ; Christmas at Dr. Fellinger's ; Second String Quintet ; Mühlfeld ; Clarinet Quintet and Trio ; Last journey to Italy ; Sixtieth birthday ; Pianoforte Pieces ; Billroth's death ; Brahms' collection of German folk-songs ; Life at Ischl ; Clarinet Sonatas ; Frau Schumann, Brahms and Joachim together for the last time -- 1895-1897. The Meiningen festival ; Visit to Frau Schumann ; Festival at Zürich ; Brahms in Berlin ; The "Four Serious Songs" ; Geheimrath Engelmann's visit to Ischl ; Frau Schumann's death ; Brahms' illness ; He goes to Carlsbad ; The Joachim quartet in Vienna ; Brahms' last Christmas ; Brahms and Joachim together for the last time ; The Vienna Philharmonic concert of March 7 ; Last visits to old friends ; Brahms' death. |
| General note | "Chronological catalogue of the published works of Brahms": pages 677-686. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 677-687). |
| LCCN | 50056409 |
