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The family tree -- Childhood (1833-1846) -- Winsen and Hamburg (1847-1852) -- 1853. The tour with Remenyi ; The first meeting with Joseph Joachim ; The visit to Liszt at Weimar -- 1853. The Rhine tour ; The meeting with Schumann ; Neue Bahnen -- Classic, Romantic, and the "New Germans" -- The first visit to Leipzig (1853) -- 1854-1856. Hanover ; The illness of Robert Schumann ; A concert tour ; The death of Schumann -- 1857-1859. Detmold ; Hamburg ; A Leipzig concert -- 1860-1862. Hamburg ; The ladies' choir ; The manifesto against the "New Germans" ; The summers at Hamm ; Brahms and the Hamburg Philharmonic society -- The first visit to Vienna (1862-1863) -- The Vienna Singakademie (1863-1864) -- 1865-1867. The death of his mother ; Tours in Germany and Switzerland ; He settles permanently in Vienna -- The "German requiem" (op. 45) (1867-1868) -- 1869-1871. Rinaldo ; The Rhapsodie ; The Schicksalslied ; His artistic and material position in 1869 ; The Triumphlied ; No. 4, Carls-gasse -- 1872-1875. The death of his father ; "Artistic director" of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde ; The Schumann memorial festival at Bonn ; Leipzig's conversion begins -- 1876-1879. Concerts in Holland and Gemrany ; The first two symphonies ; The three Portschach holidays ; The violin concerto ; The Hamburg Philharmonic hubilee festival ; The Ph.D. degree of Breslau -- 1880-1882. Concert Tours ; The summer at Ischl (1880) ; The two overtures ; The Academic Festival Overture at Breslau ; The summer at Pressbaum ; The second pianoforte concerto ; Nante ; The court music of Meiningen ; Bulow secures the triumph of Brahms at Leipzig ; Gesang der Parzen -- 1883-1888. The third and fourth symphonies ; The three summers at Thun ; The double concerto for violin and violoncello ; Domestic changes at no. 4, Carls-gasse -- 1889-1895. The honorary freedom of the city of Hamburg ; The Fest und Gedenkspruche ; The Leopold order ; Last will ; The clarinet chamber music ; The last journey to Italy ; The sixtieth birthday ; The Volkslieder -- 1896-1897. His last public appearance ; His sixty-third birthday and the Four Serious Songs ; The death of Clara Schumann ; The Organ Preludes ; Brahms's illness and death -- Brahms's contemporaries: friends, antagonists and protagonists -- Personal characteristics -- Artistic characteristics. Brahms as pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer. |
