Category: Biographies

The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2)

1862-1864 PAGE Vienna--Musical societies--Leading musicians--The Prater--Brahms' appearance at a Hellmesberger Quartet concert--Brahms' first concert in Vienna--Conductorship of Hamburg Philharmonic--First Serenade at Gesellschaft concert--Brahms' second concert--Richard Wagne...

Chapters

24. CHAPTER XXII

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--Bra...

14. CHAPTER XIV

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 Stoc...

13. CHAPTER XIII

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--Con...

23. CHAPTER XXI

Hamburg honorary citizenship--Christmas at Dr. Fellinger's--Second String Quintet--Mühlfeld--Clarinet Quintet and Trio--Last journey to Italy--Sixtieth birthday--Pianoforte Piec...

16. CHAPTER XVI

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...

22. CHAPTER XX

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 Hausman...

15. CHAPTER XV

Brahms and Opera--Professor Heinrich Bulthaupt--The Liebeslieder--First performance--The Rhapsody (Goethe's 'Harzreise') performed privately at Carlsruhe--First public performan...

12. CHAPTER XII

Vienna--Musical societies--Leading musicians--The Prater--Brahms' appearance at a Hellmesberger Quartet concert--Brahms' first concert in Vienna--Conductorship of the Hamburg Ph...

20. CHAPTER XVIII

Hamburg Philharmonic Jubilee Festival--Violin Concerto: first performance by Joachim--Pianoforte Pieces, Op. 76--Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin--First performances--Brahms at...

21. CHAPTER XIX

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 F...

19. PART II.

The Symphony and the Elegiac Overture, the latter composed by Joachim in acknowledgment of the honorary degree offered him by the University and conferred in the afternoon of Ma...

17. CHAPTER XVII

A journey to Holland early in 1876 brought unmixed gratification to the master. He conducted the Haydn Variations, and played the D minor Concerto at Utrecht on January 22 befor...

11. CHAPTER XXII

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--Bra...

4. CHAPTER XV

Brahms and Opera--Professor Heinrich Bulthaupt--The Liebeslieder--First performance--The Rhapsody (Goethe's 'Harzreise') performed privately at Carlsruhe--First public performan...

5. CHAPTER XVI

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 E...

3. CHAPTER XIV

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 Stoc...

9. CHAPTER XX

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 Hausman...

1. CHAPTER XII

1862-1864 PAGE Vienna--Musical societies--Leading musicians--The Prater--Brahms' appearance at a Hellmesberger Quartet concert--Brahms' first concert in Vienna--Conductorship of...

2. CHAPTER XIII

Frau Schumann in Baden-Baden--Circle of friends there--Hermann Levi--Madame Pauline Viardot-Garcia--The Landgräfin of Hesse and the Pianoforte Quintet--Concert-journey--The Horn...

10. CHAPTER XXI

Hamburg honorary citizenship--Christmas at Dr. Fellinger's--Second String Quintet--Mühlfeld--Clarinet Quintet and Trio--Last journey to Italy--Sixtieth birthday--Pianoforte Piec...

7. CHAPTER XVIII

Hamburg Philharmonic Jubilee Festival--Violin Concerto; first performance by Joachim--Pianoforte Pieces, Op. 76--Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin--First performances--Brahms at...

18. PART I.

W. G. Bennett: Overture, 'The Wood Nymph.' Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Violin, Dr. Joachim. Brahms: A Song of Destiny. Bach: Violin Solos, Dr. Joachim. Joachim...

6. CHAPTER XVII

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--Secon...

8. CHAPTER XIX

Second Pianoforte Concerto--First visit to the ducal castle of Meiningen--'Nänie'--Frau Henriette Feuerbach--Hans von Bülow in Leipzig--Brahms' Vienna friends--Dr. and Frau Fell...