Brahms in the home and the concert hall : between private and public performance

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by  Brahms

BrahmsintheHomeandtheConcertHall
Johannes Brahms was a consummate professional musician, a suc-
cessfulpianist,conductor,musicdirector,editorandcomposer.Yethe
also faithfully championed the world of private music-making, cre-
ating many works and arrangements for enjoyment in the home by
amateurs.ThiscollectionexploresBrahms’spublicandprivatemusi-
cal identities from various angles: the original works he wrote with
amateurs in mind; his approach to creating piano arrangements of
notonlyhisown,butalsoothercomposers’works;hisrelationships
withhisarrangers;thedeepersymbolismandlastinglegacyofprivate
music-making in his day; and a hitherto unpublished memoir that
evokeshisViennesesocialworld.UsingBrahmsastheirfocuspoint,
the contributors trace the overlapping worlds of public and private
music-making in the nineteenth century, discussing the boundaries
betweenthecomposer’sprofessionalidentityandhislifelongengage-
mentwithamateurmusic-making.
katyhamiltonholdsthepostofJuniorResearchFellowinPerfor-
manceHistoryattheRoyalCollegeofMusic,specialisinginthevocal
musicofJohannesBrahmsandhiscontemporaries.Sheistheauthor
ofWilliamHurlstone:ACatalogueofWorksandwasassistanttopianist
GrahamJohnsonforhisthree-volumeencyclopaediaFranzSchubert:
TheCompleteSongs.Inaddition,sheisanactivechamberaccompa-
nistandrepetiteur,havingworkedwithinstrumentalists,singersand
choirsinEngland,Ireland,SpainandGermany.From2008to2013she
wasthecourseorganiserandmusicdirectorofISSMUS,aspecialist
summerschoolforsingers,composers,conductorsandpianists.
natasha loges is Assistant Head of Programmes at the Royal
CollegeofMusic,wheresheteachesonBrahms,thehistoryofopera
andtheGermanlied.ShehaspublishedvariousarticlesonBrahms’s
songs in journals such as Music and Letters and Nineteenth-Century
MusicReview.SupportedbyanArtsandHumanitiesResearchCouncil
award, she is currently completing a monograph called Brahms and
HisPoets.Sheisalsoactiveasasongaccompanistandhasbroadcast
liveonBBCRadio3.Asaspeaker,shehasalong-standingassociation
withtheOxfordLiederFestival,theUK’slargestfestivalofartsong.

Brahms in the Home and the
Concert Hall
Between Private and Public Performance
Editedbykaty hamilton and natasha loges
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Contents
Listofillustrations [pagevii]
Listofmusicexamples [ix]
Notesoncontributors [xiv]
Foreword:AdifferentBrahms?Newperspectivesonhisoutput [xix]
michael musgrave
Acknowledgements [xxiv]
Listofabbreviations [xxv]
1 Brahmsinthehome:Anintroduction [1]
katy hamilton and natasha loges
2 TheJoachimQuartetconcertsattheBerlinSingakademie:
MendelssohnianGeselligkeitinWilhelmineGermany [22]
robert w. eshbach
3 DomesticityinBrahms’sStringSextets,Opp.18and36 [43]
marie sumner lott
4 WherewasthehomeofBrahms’spianoworks? [95]
katrin eich
5 Mainandshadowyexistence(s):Worksandarrangements
intheoeuvreofJohannesBrahms [110]
michael struck
6 Brahmsarrangeshissymphonies [137]
robert pascall
7 AtthepianowithJosephandJohannes:Joachim’s
overturesinBrahms’scircle [158]
valerie woodring goertzen
8 Brahmsandhisarrangers [178]
helen paskins, with katy hamilton and natasha loges
9 BrahmsintheWittgensteinhomes:Amemoirandletters [221]
styra avins
v
vi Contents
10 TheconstructionofgenderandmoresinBrahms’s
Ma¨dchenlieder [256]
heather platt
11 Musicinsidethehomeandoutsidethebox:Brahms’svocal
quartetsincontext [279]
katy hamilton
12 Thelimitsofthelied:Brahms’sMagelone-Romanzen
Op.33 [300]
natasha loges
13 Being(like)Brahms:Emulationandideologyinlate
nineteenth-centuryHausmusik [324]
markus bo¨ggemann
14 Theculturaldialecticsofchambermusic:Adornoandthe
visual-acousticimaginaryofBildung [346]
richard leppert
Bibliography [366]
Index [384]
Illustrations
2.1 FelixPossart,DasJoachim-QuartettinderSingakademiezu
Berlin. [page23]
2.2 CarlJohannArnold,QuartettabendbeiBettinavonArnim,c.1856.
ArtResource,NewYork. [34]
2.3 FerdinandSchmutzer,JoachimundExzellenzvonKeudell,
musizierend.Etchinganddrypoint,1907. [38]
5.1 Brahms,EindeutschesRequiemOp.45.Arrangementforpiano
duet,firstedition(Leipzig/Winterthur:J.Rieter-Biedermann),
KateThompson’scopy,coverpagewithhersignature.
Poltun-SternbergMusicCollection,Vienna. [124]
8.1 Postcardof9February1892,Vienna,fromJohannesBrahmsto
FritzSimrock.CourtesyofMichaelFreyhan. [199]
9.1 JohannNepomukOserandJosephJoachim,c.1895.Photograph
courtesyofMarieKuhn-Oser. [224]
9.2 TheWittgensteinfamilytreefocusingonHermannWittgenstein/
Franziska(Fanny)Figdorandtheirelevenchildren.Permission
grantedbyUrsulaProkop. [225]
9.3 PortraitofJohannesBrahmsbyPaulWittgensteinSr,drawnfrom
memoryaftertheprivateperformanceofBrahms’sClarinet
QuintetOp.115inKarlWittgenstein’smusicroom,January1892.
Chalksketch.CourtesyofMarieKuhn-Oser. [227]
9.4 TheMusicRoomintheWittgensteinhomeat4Alleegasse,
Vienna.PhotographcourtesyofMarieKuhn-Oser. [229]
9.5 Listofdinnerengagementsduringatwo-weekperiodwrittenon
thebackofavisitingcard,spring1896.Brahms-Institut,Lu¨beck,
Sig.Hofmann. [230]
9.6 AreceptionroomintheKaunitzPalais,Laxenburg.Photograph
courtesyofMarieKuhn-Oser. [234]
10.1 IllustrationbyPaulThumannforthe1865editionofElisePolko’s
UnserePilgerfahrtvonderKinderstubebiszumeignenHeerd:Lose
Bla¨tter. [267]
10.2 TitlepageofCamillaMeier’s1865Lieder&Gesa¨ngefu¨r
FrauenchorohneBegleitung,drawingsbyFranziskaMeier. vii
viii Illustrations
ReproducedwiththepermissionoftheSophiaSmithCollection,
SmithCollegeinNorthampton,Massachusetts. [269]
11.1 TitlepageofLiebesliederOp.52,firstedition(1869).Brahms-
Institut,Lu¨beck. [284]
11.2 TitlepageoftheZigeunerliederOp.103,firstedition(1888).
Brahms-Institut,Lu¨beck. [294]
14.1 HarryBedfordLemere(1864–1944),InteriorViewoftheMusic
Room,blackandwhitephotograph.Holmstead,Liverpool,
UK;(cid:2)C EnglishHeritage.NMR/TheBridgemanArtLibrary
International. [347]
14.2 EtienneAzambre(fl.1883–1901),ChamberMusic(1890),oilon
canvas.(cid:2)C JerseyHeritageTrust,UK/TheBridgemanArtLibrary
International. [348]
14.3 JohannBaptistHoechle(1790–1835),Beethoven’sStudyinthe
Schwarzspanierhaus(drawing).Photocredit:ErichLessing/Art
Resource,NewYork. [349]
14.4 TheApartmentofJohannesBrahmsinVienna(nineteenth-century,
artistunknown),watercolour.Photocredit:ErichLessing/Art
Resource,NewYork. [350]
14.5 AlbertEinsteinMakingMusicduringaChamberMusicHour
onboardtheliner‘Deutschland’onthewaytoAmerica(1933),
blackandwhitephotograph.Photocredit:ArtResource,New
York. [357]
14.6 GustaveDore´ (1832–83)Overcome,fromGrotesques(1849).
Privatecollection. [362]
14.7 FrenchSchool(nineteenth-century)TheStringQuartet,
lithograph.Privatecollection.TheBridgemanArtLibrary
International. [363]
14.8 VladimirEgorovicMakovsky(1846–1920),MusicalEvening
(1906),oiloncanvas.Moscow,TretyakovGallery/TheBridgeman
ArtLibraryInternational. [363]
14.9 AlvinLangdonCoburn(1882–1966),MurdochPianoQuartet
(1918),blackandwhitephotograph.Rochester,NY,George
EastmanHouse,acc.no.1979:4073:0001. [364]
14.10 AlvinLangdonCoburn(1882–1966),MurdochPianoQuartet
(1918),blackandwhitephotograph.Rochester,NY,George
EastmanHouse,acc.no.1979:4073:0002. [364]