CHAPTER XXII

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 267

CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF WORKS 293

WORKS EDITED BY BRAHMS 299

ARRANGED CATALOGUE OF WORKS 300

INDEX 303

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BRAHMS AT ISCHL _Frontispiece_

BRAHMS AT THE AGE OF FORTY _To face page_ 122

BRAHMS' LODGINGS AT ISCHL " 202

BRAHMS' LODGINGS NEAR THUN " 230

SILHOUETTE BY DR. BÖHLER " 260

BRAHMS AT DR. FELLINGER'S " 276

THE LIFE OF JOHANNES BRAHMS