Brahms Societies, Museums and Scholars


Brahms Societies:

 American Brahms Society

 Österreichische Johannes Brahms-Gesellschaft

 Johannes Brahms-Gesellschaft Baden-Baden e. V.

 Johannes Brahms-Gesellschaft Internationale Vereinigung e. V (Hamburg)

 Japan Brahms Association
     Contact Information forthcoming

 Brahms-Gesamtausgabe Musik-Institut Universität Kiel
     Olshausenstrasse 40, 24118 Kiel, Germany

 Brahms-Gesellschaft Schleswig-Holstein

 Johannes Brahms-Gesellschaft Schweiz
     Postfach 70, CH-3645 Gwatt, Switzerland

 Johannes Brahms-Gesellschaft Wiesbaden-Rheingau e.V.


Brahms Museums:

 Brahms-Museum im Kammerhof Museum der Stadt Gmunden, Austria

 Brahms in Gmunden, Austria
    (for general, local information)

 Brahms Museum, Mürzzuschlag am Semmering, Austria

 Brahms Museum, Pörtschach, Austria

 Brahms-Saal der Musikverein, Vienna, Austria

 Haydn-Gedenkstätte mit Brahms-Gedenkraum, Vienna, Austria

 Brahms-Museum in Hamburg, Germany
     and
     More news on the Brahms-Museum in Hamburg

 Brahms Institut, Luebeck, Germany
     This site is part of the Musikhochschule Luebeck.


Brahms Scholars and Selected Work:

Carol Padgham Albrecht

o      Paper presented at 1997 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Progress and Nostalgia in the Horn Trios of Herzogenberg, Reinecke, and Brahms."

Styra Avins

o      "Performing Brahms's Music: Clues from His Letters." In "Performing Brahms". Edited by Bernard D. Sherman and Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

o      "Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters." Oxford University Press, 1997.

Daniel Beller-McKenna

o      "The Rise and Fall of Brahms The German". Journal of Musicological Research 10 (2001).

o      "Brahms's Choral Music." In "The Cambridge Companion to Brahms". Edited by Michael Musgrave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

o      "Brahms's Motet 'Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, op. 29, no. 1' and the "Fundamental Essence of Music.'" In Brahms Studies 2. Edited by David Brodbeck. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

o      "How deutsch a Requiem? Absolute Music, Universality, and the Viennese Reception of Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45". 19th Century Music 22 (1998).

o      "The Great 'Warum?': Job, Christ, and Bach in a Brahms Motet." 19th Century Music 19 (1996).

o      "Reconsidering the Identity of an Orchestral Sketch by Brahms." Journal of Musicology 13 (1995).

o      Paper presented at the 2001 conference in Boston: "Brahms: Perspectives of Performance": "Performing Culture in the Obbligato Lied: Brahms's 'Two Songs for Alto and Viola, op. 91'."

o      Paper presented at the 2000 Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society: "Was Brahms a Jew? Anti-Semitism and Brahms Reception c. 1880-1945."

o      Paper presented at the 1997 conference in Boston: "Brahms the Contemporary: Perspectives on Two Centuries": "Apocolypse (Now?): Politics and Religion in the Sacred Music of Johannes Brahms."

o      Link here for an index of Beller-McKenna's papers and publications.

Mark Evan Bonds

o      Paper presented at 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Contexts of Allusion in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Brahms's First Symphony."

George Bozarth

o      "Fanny Davies and Brahms's Late Chamber Music." In "Performing Brahms". Edited by Bernard D. Sherman and Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

o      "Brahms's Posthumous Compositions and Arrangements: Editorial Problems and Questions of Authenticity." In "Brahms 2: Biographical, Documentary and Analytical Studies". Edited by Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

o      Paper presented at the 1996 Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society: "The Brahms-Keller Correspondence."

David Brodbeck

o      "Brahms's Chamber Music." In "The Cambridge Companion to Brahms". Edited by Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Walter Frisch

o      "In Search of Brahms's First Symphony: Steinbach, the Meinigen Tradition, and the Recordings of Hermann Abendroth." In "Performing Brahms". Edited by Bernard D. Sherman and Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Andrea Massimo Grassi

o      Paper read at the Terzo convegno annuale della Societa italiana di musicologia, Florence, Italy, 20-22 September, 1996: "La trasmissione del testo delle opere brahmsiane: Alcuni percorsi della volonta d'Autore."

Virginia Hancock

o      Paper presented at 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Pre-Publication Performances and Brahms's Revisions of the Fest- und Gedenksprüche."

o      "Brahms's Links with German Renaissance Music: A Discussion of Selected Choral Works." In "Brahms 2: Biographical, Documentary and Analytical Studies". Edited by Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

o      Paper presented at the 1995 Pacific Northwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Der Arme Peter: The Platen and Daumer Settings of Brahms's Op. 32."

Mary I. Ingraham

o      Paper presented at the 2002 New York/St. Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society: "On Goethe, Love, and Duty: Gender Politics in Brahms's Rinaldo."

o      Paper presented at the 1997 International Brahms Congress, Nottingham, UK: "Problems of Reception and Scholarship: Critical Responses to Rinalo, Op. 50."

o      Article on "Johannes Brahms Rinaldo, Op. 50 - Engraver's Copy of the Full Score." Library of Congress Essay for the Moldenhauer Archives.

o      Paper presented at the 1996 Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society: "Symbolic Melodic Gesturing in Brahms's Rinaldo."

Peter Kiesewetter

o      Brahms (Translated by Richard Sterling)
"The difficulty with Johannes Brahms' greatness is that he was not a revolutionary like Wagner, but rather a latecomer, and that he knew it." (PK)

Roe-Min Kok

o      Paper presented at 1998 South Central Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Is There a Chaconne in Brahms's Passacaglia?."

Rose Mauro

o      Paper presented at 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Language Society: "'Around My Ears a Song of Old Resounds': Music, Myth, and Magic in Goethe's 'Parzenlied'."

o      Paper presented at 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: "The Triumph of Love: Goethe, Brahms, Gluck and the Maternal Voice."

o      Paper presented at 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Of Men and Mountains: Brahms, Schubert, and the Alto Voice."

Michael Musgrave

o      "A Brahms Reader." Yale University Press, 2001.

o      "A German Requiem and Other Choral Works: Evidence Regarding Period Performance Practice" and "Early Piano Recordings of Brahms." In "Performing Brahms". Edited by Bernard D. Sherman and Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

o      "Words for Music: The Songs for Solo Voice and Piano" and "The Years of Transition: Vienna 1863-75." In "The Cambridge Companion to Brahms". Edited by Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

o      "Brahms and England." In "Brahms 2: Biographical, Documentary and Analytical Studies". Edited by Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

o      "Brahms: A German Requiem." Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Margaret Notley

o      Paper presented at 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "The Cult of the Classical Adagio and Brahms's 'First Maturity'."

o      Paper presented at 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Absolute Music as Universal Language in Turn-of-the-Century Vienna."

University of Nebraska Press

o      Brahms Studies.

Robert Pascall

o      "Flexible Tempo and Nuancing in Orchestral Music: Understanding Brahms's View of Interpretation in his Second Piano Concerto and Fourth Symphony." In "Performing Brahms". Edited by Bernard D. Sherman and Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

o      "The Editor's Brahms." In "The Cambridge Companion to Brahms". Edited by Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

o      "Brahms's 'Missa Canonica' and its Recomposition in his Motet 'Warum' Op. 74 no. 1." In "Brahms 2: Biographical, Documentary and Analytical Studies". Edited by Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Heather Platt

o      Paper presented at 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Schumann's Presence in Brahms's Lieder."

o      Paper presented at the 1995 Greater New York Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Viennese Music Politics and the Reception of Brahms Lieder."

Sanna Pederson

o      Paper presented at 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "'Vanitas Vanitatum': Brahms, Modernity, and Melancholy."

Thomas Quigley

o      "Johannes Brahms: An Annotated Bibliography of the Literature from 1982-1996 with and Appendix on Brahms and the Internet". Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998.

o      Paper presented at the 1996 Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society: "Hunting For Hedgehogs on the Electronic Highway."

o      "Johannes Brahms: An Annotated Bibliography of the Literature through 1982." Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1990.

Christopher Alan Reynolds

o      Paper presented at 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Brahms and His Musical Seed-Corn: The Claims of (Un)consciousness."

Charles Rosen

o      Paper presented at University of California, Santa Barbara, 8 April 1997: "Brahms: Awkwardness as Inspiration."

Bernard D. Sherman

o      "Proportions and Tempos in Brahms Performance: Contemporary Evidence." In "Performing Brahms". Edited by Bernard D. Sherman and Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Peter H. Smith

o      Paper presented at 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Brahms and the Shifting Barline: Metric Displacement and Formal Process in the Trios with Wind Instruments."

o      Paper presented at 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society: "Brahms and the Neapolitan Complex." Abstract

Arnold Whittal

o      "Two of a Kind? Brahms's Op. 51 Finales." In "Performing Brahms". Edited by Bernard D. Sherman and Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Christopher Wintle

o      "The 'Sceptred Pall': Brahms's Progressive Harmony." In "Performing Brahms". Edited by Bernard D. Sherman and Michael Musgrave. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

 

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Submissions and Information: Mary I. Ingraham. Prepared with the assistance of Thomas Quigley.

Last updated September 2002