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@@ -1,39 +1,4 @@ -Project Gutenberg's The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2), by Florence May - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2) - -Author: Florence May - -Release Date: September 27, 2012 [EBook #40644] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIFE OF JOHANNES BRAHMS *** - - - - -Produced by Linda Cantoni, Veronika Redfern, Bryan Ness -and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian -Libraries) - - - - - - - - +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40644 *** [Illustration: J. Brahms] @@ -82,18 +47,18 @@ Libraries) 1864-1867 Frau Schumann in Baden-Baden--Circle of friends there--Hermann - Levi--Madame Pauline Viardot-Garcia--The Landgraefin of + Levi--Madame Pauline Viardot-Garcia--The Landgräfin of Hesse and the Pianoforte Quintet--Concert-journey--The Horn Trio--Frau Caroline Schnack--Last visit to Detmold--First Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello--The German Requiem--Brahms - at Zuerich--Billroth--Brahms and Joachim on a concert-tour - in Switzerland--Hans v. Buelow--Reinthaler 27 + at Zürich--Billroth--Brahms and Joachim on a concert-tour + in Switzerland--Hans v. Bülow--Reinthaler 27 CHAPTER XIV 1867-1869 - Brahms' holiday journey with his father and Gaensbacher--Austrian + 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 Stockhausen in North Germany and Denmark--Performance of the German @@ -122,7 +87,7 @@ Libraries) concerts'--Schumann Festival at Bonn--Professor and Frau Engelmann--String Quartets--First performances--Anselm Feuerbach in Vienna--Variations for Orchestra--First performances--'Triumphlied' - at Cologne, Basle, and Zuerich--Resignation of + at Cologne, Basle, and Zürich--Resignation of appointment as 'artistic director' to the Gesellschaft--Third Pianoforte Quartet 115 @@ -151,8 +116,8 @@ Libraries) 1881-1885 Second Pianoforte Concerto--First visit to the ducal castle of - Meiningen--'Naenie'--Frau Henriette Feuerbach--Hans von - Buelow in Leipzig--Brahms' Vienna friends--Dr. and Frau + Meiningen--'Nänie'--Frau Henriette Feuerbach--Hans von + Bülow in Leipzig--Brahms' Vienna friends--Dr. and Frau Fellinger--Pianoforte Trio in C major--First String Quintet--The 'Parzenlied'--Third Symphony 193 @@ -160,7 +125,7 @@ Libraries) CHAPTER XX 1885-1888 - Vienna Tonkuenstlerverein--Fourth Symphony--Hugo Wolf--Brahms + 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 Hausmann--Frau Celestine Truxa--Double Concerto--Marxsen's death--Eugen @@ -174,7 +139,7 @@ Libraries) 1889-1895 Hamburg honorary citizenship--Christmas at Dr. Fellinger's--Second - String Quintet--Muehlfeld--Clarinet Quintet and Trio--Last + String Quintet--Mühlfeld--Clarinet Quintet and Trio--Last journey to Italy--Sixtieth birthday--Pianoforte Pieces--Billroth's death--Brahms' collection of German Folk-songs--Life at Ischl--Clarinet Sonatas--Frau Schumann, Brahms, and Joachim @@ -185,7 +150,7 @@ Libraries) 1895-1897 The Meiningen Festival--Visit to Frau Schumann--Festival at - Zuerich--Brahms in Berlin--The 'Four Serious Songs'--Geheimrath + 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 @@ -215,7 +180,7 @@ Libraries) BRAHMS' LODGINGS NEAR THUN " 230 - SILHOUETTE BY DR. BOeHLER " 260 + SILHOUETTE BY DR. BÖHLER " 260 BRAHMS AT DR. FELLINGER'S " 276 @@ -254,7 +219,7 @@ cultivation of the masses of citizens. Suffice it to say that in the autumn of 1862 the conditions of musical activity in the Austrian capital were essentially the same as we know them in 1905. -The Court Opera, the home of which was the Kaerthnerthor Theater, was +The Court Opera, the home of which was the Kärthnerthor Theater, was conducted by Otto Dessoff, who had been a distinguished pupil of the Leipzig Conservatoire, and had succeeded the celebrated capellmeister, Carl Anton Eckert, on his resignation of the post in 1860. In intimate @@ -335,7 +300,7 @@ with his opera 'The Queen of Sheba,' had been almost entirely resident in Vienna since his sixteenth year, and now at thirty was rising to fame. Peter Cornelius, composer of the comic opera 'The Barber of Bagdad,' and already mentioned in our narrative as a disciple of Weimar, -was living at this time in the Austrian capital. Anton Brueckner was +was living at this time in the Austrian capital. Anton Brückner was favourably esteemed by some of the first resident musicians, though he had not yet been called there. Carl Tausig, one of the greatest of pianoforte virtuosi, whose sympathies were much with the New-Germans, @@ -368,14 +333,14 @@ Spina when he took over the business of his predecessors, the firm of Diabelli, and were gradually placed by him in the possession of the world. -On his arrival in Vienna, Brahms put up at the Hotel Kronprinz in the +On his arrival in Vienna, Brahms put up at the Hôtel Kronprinz in the Leopoldstadt, moving soon afterwards into a room at 39, Novaragasse, of -the same inexpensive quarter, then called the Jaegerzeil. Several of his -old friends were fortunately at hand. Graedener had given up his position +the same inexpensive quarter, then called the Jägerzeil. Several of his +old friends were fortunately at hand. Grädener had given up his position in Hamburg the preceding year to try his fortune in Vienna; Frau Passy-Cornet, whose name calls the concert of 1848 to remembrance, was now a professor of singing at the Vienna Conservatoire; and, a very few -weeks after Brahms' arrival, Arthur Faber, lately married to Fraeulein +weeks after Brahms' arrival, Arthur Faber, lately married to Fräulein Bertha Porubszky, brought his bride to their home in the imperial city. His house was, of course, open to Johannes, who spent many, and especially Sunday, evenings with these friends. Amongst the most @@ -387,10 +352,10 @@ From the first he felt at home in Vienna. The good-natured, easy-going Austrian people attracted him, and he at once conceived an affection for the Prater, in the immediate vicinity of which his hotel was situated. This great park of the Kaiserstadt contains, indeed, attractions to suit -every variety of taste. There is the Hauptallee, with its broad drive -and shady walks, its open-air cafes and music of military bands, which +every variety of taste. There is the Hauptallée, with its broad drive +and shady walks, its open-air cafés and music of military bands, which play waltzes and various dance movements as they are played in no other -city. There is the Wuerstelprater, the playground of children and other +city. There is the Würstelprater, the playground of children and other simple folk, where, in the fine-weather season, a continual fair goes on with shows and games and entertainments of every kind likely to attract the patronage of the multitude, and where in the Hungarian @@ -399,7 +364,7 @@ may daily be heard. There is the wild portion, bounded on one side by the Danube canal and stretching for some little distance beyond the town, where the solitary walker may fancy himself in a forest far from human habitation. Brahms, on this occasion of his first visit to Vienna, -particularly attached himself to the Wuerstelprater, for which he ever +particularly attached himself to the Würstelprater, for which he ever after retained his partiality. The motley life to be seen there amused and interested him. He came to be a frequent listener at the 'Czarda,' and it is whispered that the spirit of fun has occasionally prompted @@ -418,7 +383,7 @@ the leading musicians of the city. 'Brahms in 1862 played the Quartets in G minor and A major with the members of the Hellmesberger Quartet (Hellmesberger, Dobyhal and - Roever) at my house in the Schulerstrasse, in the first place,' + Röver) at my house in the Schulerstrasse, in the first place,' writes Professor Epstein to the author. 'We were all delighted and carried away. The works were shortly afterwards played in public by Brahms with the same colleagues.' @@ -429,13 +394,13 @@ interest awakened in musical circles by the arrival of the composer is even more strikingly testified by the fact that on October 14, only five weeks after his departure from Hamburg, the name of the orchestral Serenade in D major appeared in the forecast of the Gesellschaft season -published in the _Blaetter fuer Theater, Kuenst und Musik_. +published in the _Blätter für Theater, Künst und Musik_. On Sunday evening, November 16, Brahms made his first appearance before his new public at Hellmesberger's Quartet concert, which took place, as usual, in the Vereinsaal (the concert-room of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde) before an audience that crowded every part of the house in -anticipation of the debut in Vienna of 'Schumann's young prophet.' The +anticipation of the début in Vienna of 'Schumann's young prophet.' The first and last numbers of the programme of three works were severally Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E flat and Beethoven's in C sharp minor, Op. 131, Brahms' G minor Pianoforte Quartet occupying the place of @@ -529,7 +494,7 @@ feeling his audience in sympathy with him: time to write to me? 'Tell the contents of this letter to Herr Marxsen and say also that - Boersendorfer[1] will not be able to send a piano before the New + Börsendorfer[1] will not be able to send a piano before the New Year as so many are required for concerts. Shall I see about another for him? I await orders.... @@ -549,7 +514,7 @@ feeling his audience in sympathy with him: go without the two or three extra Louis-d'ors that these would perhaps pay. - 'Does Ave often go to see you? Has he told you anything particular + 'Does Avé often go to see you? Has he told you anything particular about Stockhausen? 'How about the photograph of the girls' quartet? Am I not to have @@ -562,13 +527,13 @@ feeling his audience in sympathy with him: 'JOHANNES. 'Hearty greetings to Herr Marxsen, and do not forget about - Boersendorfer.'[4] + Börsendorfer.'[4] The two Pianoforte Quartets were despatched to Simrock, and were published by the firm early in 1863--the first one in G minor, being dedicated to Baron Reinhard von Dalwigk, Court Intendant to the Grand-Duke of Oldenburg, a really musical amateur and a warm supporter -of Brahms; and the second, in A major, to Frau Dr. Elisabeth Roesing of +of Brahms; and the second, in A major, to Frau Dr. Elisabeth Rösing of Hamm, in whose house it was written. The tone of the above extracts tells how lovingly the composer's @@ -580,7 +545,7 @@ conductor of the Philharmonic--a position he would at the time have been proud to accept. The decision of the committee was now almost a foregone conclusion, though it was not formally arrived at till the following year. What it was may be told in the following extract from a letter -written to Ave Lallement on January 31, 1863, by Joachim, whose +written to Avé Lallement on January 31, 1863, by Joachim, whose influence with the committee had been energetically exerted in favour of his Johannes: @@ -635,7 +600,7 @@ Quartet, as being workable rather than original or significant. A remarkable review--remarkable from its admirable appreciation of Brahms' creative personality--was despatched to Leipzig by the Vienna correspondent of the _Neue Zeitschrift_, who signs himself 'S.,' and -appeared in the Vienna resume contained in the paper's issue of March +appeared in the Vienna résumé contained in the paper's issue of March 23: 'As regards Brahms' serenade which has been favourably received, @@ -723,7 +688,7 @@ his appearances and the early productions of his works. The attraction felt by Hanslick for Brahms' art increased with each opportunity of becoming acquainted with it. He secured his services as pianist at a lecture on Beethoven--one of a series--given by him in -January, when Johannes, whose pianistic repertoire was almost +January, when Johannes, whose pianistic répertoire was almost inexhaustible, performed the thirty-three Variations on a waltz by Diabelli. @@ -758,7 +723,7 @@ string quintet which he had taken to Vienna to get quite to his liking. The second Serenade was announced for the Philharmonic concert of March 8 as the opening number of the programme, to be followed by Joachim's Hungarian Concerto, with Laub as solo violinist, and this by a new -symphony by M. Kaessmeyer--an astonishingly progressive list, which was +symphony by M. Kässmeyer--an astonishingly progressive list, which was due to Dessoff's influence and was approvingly remarked upon by Hanslick in his review of the 11th of the month. Meanwhile difficulties presented themselves.[8] The discontent of the members of the orchestra was @@ -767,12 +732,12 @@ heard of the great difficulty of performing many of the passages, and at the general rehearsal open mutiny broke out. The first clarinettist suddenly rose, and, in the name of the body of instrumentalists, declared their refusal to perform the composition. Dessoff, white with -agitation, instantly replied by laying down his baton and announcing his +agitation, instantly replied by laying down his bâton and announcing his resignation of the post of conductor; Hellmesberger, as concertmeister, followed suit, and the first flutist, Franz Doppler, a celebrated performer, joined them. This decided matters. The malcontents gave way, the rehearsal proceeded, and the performance on the 8th was so greatly -appreciated by the public that R. Hirsch, who made his debut as Brahms' +appreciated by the public that R. Hirsch, who made his début as Brahms' critic in the _Wiener Zeitung_ in connexion with the occasion, and who for many years systematically (and perhaps conscientiously) decried his works, could find nothing worse to say than that the serenade would find @@ -811,7 +776,7 @@ possessions as mementoes of his visit, engravings of some of his favourite pictures in the Belvedere Gallery,[9] and the entire collection of the then published works of Schubert, presented to him by Spina, being the principal. He had a particular reason for wishing to -pass a day or two with his friend. He was to be introduced to Fraeulein +pass a day or two with his friend. He was to be introduced to Fräulein Amalie Weiss, to whom Joachim had lately become engaged. This lady had entered into a three years' engagement as first contralto on the stage of the Hanover court opera in the spring of 1862, and it was not long @@ -820,7 +785,7 @@ court concertmeister of the same capital. The two artists were betrothed in February, 1863, and the birthday of the Queen of Hanover, April 14, was celebrated by a festival performance of Gluck's 'Orpheus,' conducted, by Her Majesty's express desire, by Joachim, in which -Fraeulein Weiss appeared with brilliant success in the title-role. +Fräulein Weiss appeared with brilliant success in the title-rôle. Brahms, on his arrival a little later on, was a delighted witness of a repetition of the opera. Frau Amalie Joachim, who retired from the stage on her marriage (June, 1863), gradually acquired a very great reputation @@ -854,13 +819,13 @@ simultaneously with his first appearance in Vienna, and had increased with each opportunity that had offered itself there for the hearing of his music. Amongst them were Dr. Scholz, a surgeon; Herr Adolf Schultz, a merchant; and Herr Franz Flatz, an insurance official of Vienna; and -at their head Dr. Josef Gaensbacher, son of the distinguished musician -and church composer Johann Gaensbacher, the pupil of Vogler and +at their head Dr. Josef Gänsbacher, son of the distinguished musician +and church composer Johann Gänsbacher, the pupil of Vogler and Albrechtsberger, acquaintance of Haydn and Beethoven, friend of Weber and Meyerbeer, and capellmeister of the cathedral from 1823 until his death in 1844. -Dr. Josef Gaensbacher, whose name has become known in the musical world +Dr. Josef Gänsbacher, whose name has become known in the musical world of many countries by its appearance on the title-page of Brahms' first sonata for pianoforte and violoncello, was, in 1863, a young doctor of jurisprudence and advocate's draughtsman. Later on he adopted music as a @@ -870,7 +835,7 @@ truest friends in Vienna, and became a devotee of his art even before making his personal acquaintance. He had considerable influence with the members of the Singakademie, and representatives of both sections of the committee called on him at his bureau to solicit his help, Prince -Czartoriska presenting himself in person in Krenn's favour. Gaensbacher's +Czartoriska presenting himself in person in Krenn's favour. Gänsbacher's sympathies, however, were all the other way; and, being selected by his party to make a speech at the general meeting in Brahms' interest, he used such forcible arguments as to bring over several of Krenn's @@ -924,7 +889,7 @@ masters of the earlier period whose music was a speciality of the society. The first concert of the season 1863-64, given on November 15 under his direction, presented the following programme: - 1. Bach: Cantata, 'Ich hatte viel Bekuemmerniss.' + 1. Bach: Cantata, 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmerniss.' (First time in Vienna.) 2. Beethoven: 'Opferlied.' @@ -935,7 +900,7 @@ under his direction, presented the following programme: _b._ 'Es ist ein Schnitter heisst der Tod.' _c._ 'Ich fahr dahin wenn es muss seyn.' - 4. Schumann: 'Requiem fuer Mignon.' (First time in Vienna.) + 4. Schumann: 'Requiem für Mignon.' (First time in Vienna.) The co-operating artists were Frau Wilt and Frau Ferrari; Herr Danzer, Herr Dalfy, and Herr Organist Bibl. No doubt could be felt at the close @@ -981,9 +946,9 @@ Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven was recognised by those most competent to judge. Meanwhile his art was gradually spreading through Europe. On November 10 -the first serenade was given at Zuerich under Fichtelberger, the +the first serenade was given at Zürich under Fichtelberger, the conductor of the subscription concerts. The work deserved a warmer -reception than was accorded it, in the opinion of the _Neuer Zuercher +reception than was accorded it, in the opinion of the _Neuer Zürcher Zeitung_, whose critic recognised in Brahms a composer, not only of profound knowledge, but of inborn genius. He did not commit himself to pronouncement as to whether the composer's creative power would be of @@ -993,7 +958,7 @@ domain of musical art, but thought the serenade pointed to the latter probability. The B flat Sextet was performed at a concert given in Hamburg in -November by Rose and Stockhausen, whose friendship with Brahms had not +November by Rosé and Stockhausen, whose friendship with Brahms had not been allowed to suffer by the action of the Philharmonic committee. The composition was given in Vienna at the Hellmesberger concert of December 27, when it awakened extraordinary interest and sympathy. In the @@ -1026,7 +991,7 @@ The second and third concerts of the Singakademie took place on January Day Song of Triumph' (double chorus). - 3. Heinrich Schuetz (1583-1672): 'Saul's Conversion' + 3. Heinrich Schütz (1583-1672): 'Saul's Conversion' (triple chorus). 4. Giov. Gabrielli (1557-1613): 'Benedictus' (double @@ -1055,7 +1020,7 @@ earlier numbers had the 'character of an improvisation or a practice rather than a concert production.' The three German folk-songs (the two last harmonized by Brahms) were so warmly received that the conductor's Minnelied, 'Der Holdseliger' was given in addition. The success of the -Bach cantata was injured by a contretemps. The Boersendorfer piano, sent +Bach cantata was injured by a contretemps. The Börsendorfer piano, sent in the absence of an organ, was too high in pitch and therefore unavailable. @@ -1148,11 +1113,11 @@ place--as usual, before a private audience. The programme will be perused with interest by English-speaking readers: 1. Schumann: First and second movements from - 'Requiem fuer Mignon.' + 'Requiem für Mignon.' 2. Haydn: Duet for Soprano and Tenor. - 3. Schumann: Stuecke im Volkston for Violoncello + 3. Schumann: Stücke im Volkston for Violoncello and Pianoforte. 4. John Bennet (1599): Madrigal (for chorus). @@ -1165,7 +1130,7 @@ perused with interest by English-speaking readers: 7. Brahms: Two Songs for Soprano. 8. Schumann: Fifth and sixth movements from the - 'Requiem fuer Mignon.' + 'Requiem für Mignon.' The fourth and fifth numbers of the programme were no doubt selected by Brahms from a collection of early English madrigals, edited by J. J. @@ -1182,7 +1147,7 @@ committee. In the course of the year, Spina of Vienna (Cranz of Hamburg) published a setting of the 13th Psalm for three-part women's Chorus, with accompaniment for organ or pianoforte; and four Duets for Contralto and -Baritone, dedicated to Frau Amalie Joachim. Breitkopf and Haertel issued +Baritone, dedicated to Frau Amalie Joachim. Breitkopf and Härtel issued two Motets for five-part mixed Chorus _a capella_ (the first set to a verse of a church hymn by Paul Speratus, 1484-1551; the second to words from the 51st Psalm); a Sacred Song by Paul Fleming, 1609-1640 (set for @@ -1190,7 +1155,7 @@ two-part mixed Chorus, and written in double canon); and the three Quartets for Solo voices to which we have already referred as Op. 31. Rieter-Biedermann published a set of nine Songs (Op. 32), No. 9 of which -is the exquisite 'Wie bist du meine Koenigin,' one of the most fragrant +is the exquisite 'Wie bist du meine Königin,' one of the most fragrant love-songs ever composed; and a set of German Folk-songs, without opus number, dedicated to the Vienna Singakademie. @@ -1203,7 +1168,7 @@ Selmar Bagge. [2] The _Deutsche Musikzeitung_ of November 29, the very day of the concert, announces vocal duets and choruses by Brahms as part of the programme. The review of the concert in the same paper concludes: 'Frau -Passy-Cornet and Herr Fuerchtgott assisted the concert-giver, whose +Passy-Cornet and Herr Fürchtgott assisted the concert-giver, whose programme was altered, by performing songs and ballads.' [3] Egg-punch was a birthday institution in the family. The Wednesday in @@ -1239,12 +1204,12 @@ VIII.): 'Johannes Brahms.' 1864-1867 Frau Schumann in Baden-Baden--Circle of friends there--Hermann - Levi--Madame Pauline Viardot-Garcia--The Landgraefin of Hesse and + Levi--Madame Pauline Viardot-Garcia--The Landgräfin of Hesse and the Pianoforte Quintet--Death of Frau Brahms--Concert-journey--The Horn Trio--Frau Caroline Schnack--Last visit to Detmold--First Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello--The German Requiem--Brahms - at Zuerich--Billroth--Brahms and Joachim on a concert-tour in - Switzerland--Hans von Buelow--Reinthaler. + at Zürich--Billroth--Brahms and Joachim on a concert-tour in + Switzerland--Hans von Bülow--Reinthaler. In the year 1864, or possibly at the end of 1863, the domestic troubles @@ -1304,11 +1269,11 @@ name heads the programme of Johannes' first public concert of 1848. The painter Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880), a little-known and disappointed man in 1864, whose art has attained great posthumous celebrity, came annually with his mother to pass a few weeks there. The name of Frau -Henriette Feuerbach appears on the title-page of Brahms' work 'Naenie,' +Henriette Feuerbach appears on the title-page of Brahms' work 'Nänie,' which was composed soon after the premature death of her son. With the mention of Feuerbach must be associated that of Julius Allgeyer, introduced to our readers in an early chapter as a student of -copperplate engraving at Duesseldorf, and now settled in Carlsruhe as a +copperplate engraving at Düsseldorf, and now settled in Carlsruhe as a high-art photographer. Allgeyer had a genius for friendship. He was extraordinarily attached to Feuerbach, of whose art he made himself the apostle; but though his four years' residence in Rome (1856-1860) in @@ -1361,7 +1326,7 @@ A gifted pupil of the Leipzig Conservatoire, Levi resolved, at an early age, to aim at achieving distinction as a conductor, and, on entering the service of the Grand-Duke of Baden in his twenty-sixth year, he had already laid the foundation of his future celebrity in successive posts -at Saarbrueck, Mannheim, and Rotterdam. He had a large and enthusiastic +at Saarbrück, Mannheim, and Rotterdam. He had a large and enthusiastic nature which caused him to reject the formal and stereotyped in art and to sympathize with what seemed to him genuinely progressive, and, becoming early in his career a great admirer of Schumann's music, he @@ -1369,20 +1334,20 @@ passed easily to a recognition of the genius of Brahms, with whom he had a slight acquaintance before settling at Carlsruhe. The singer Hauser, the violoncellist Lindner, the hornist Segisser, the -authoress Fraeulein Anna Ettlinger--all resident in Carlsruhe--the +authoress Fräulein Anna Ettlinger--all resident in Carlsruhe--the learned Oberschulrath Gustav Wendt, called there in 1867, whose rooms were the scene of many distinguished gatherings, are to be included in our list; and of particular interest is the name of the violoncellist Bernhard Cossmann, of Weimar celebrity, who settled at Baden-Baden in 1870. Brahms was a willing and heartily welcome visitor at his house, and took part there in performances of his E minor Violoncello Sonata, -and, with the hornist Steinbruegger, of the Horn Trio. +and, with the hornist Steinbrügger, of the Horn Trio. A noteworthy and picturesque figure, familiar in the artist circle, was that of Tourgenieff, who visited Baden-Baden annually from early in the sixties until the opening of the seventies. In conclusion is to be added the name of Pauline Viardot-Garcia, who settled at Baden in 1863, -building a spacious villa in the Lichtenthaler Allee for her summer +building a spacious villa in the Lichtenthaler Allée for her summer residence, which contained a gallery of fine paintings, chiefly of the Spanish and Netherlands schools. Amongst her possessions was Mozart's autograph score of 'Don Giovanni,' which she kept enshrined in a @@ -1401,10 +1366,10 @@ to our present date, and conducted its performance by the young ladies, outside her house, at an early hour of the morning. This pleasant incident of the seventies recalls that of the forties, when the youthful Johannes consented to fill the offices of composer and conductor at -Winsen on the occasion of Rector Koehler's birthday. +Winsen on the occasion of Rector Köhler's birthday. Brahms was presented by Frau Schumann, in the course of this his first -lengthened stay at Baden-Baden, to the Princess Anna, Landgraefin of +lengthened stay at Baden-Baden, to the Princess Anna, Landgräfin of Hesse on an occasion when the two artists performed his sonata for two pianofortes privately before Her Royal Highness. The work, which, as we have seen, had failed to win public sympathy when performed in a Vienna @@ -1436,7 +1401,7 @@ him of a fantasia for pianoforte published that year by the Prince: 'The high and agreeable distinction, as which I regard the dedication, reminds me of the similar pleasure I experienced when I was permitted to inscribe my quintet to your highly-honoured - mother, the Frau Landgraefin. That was in beautiful Baden-Baden, and + mother, the Frau Landgräfin. That was in beautiful Baden-Baden, and it would be too tempting to go on chatting about the unforgettable music-hours and pleasant days; but much else crowds upon the memory: Meiningen, Frankfurt, Vienna, Baden, etc. I think that by @@ -1588,7 +1553,7 @@ family apprehension. Having accepted engagements in Switzerland and Germany for the ante-Christmas concert-season, he remained on till the end of October in his quarters at Frau Becker's, and here, about a week before the -commencement of his _tournee_, he received the news that his father had +commencement of his _tournée_, he received the news that his father had resolved to marry again, and had become engaged to a widow. The intelligence, such as it was, came direct from Jakob, but it contained no particulars whatever to soften the anxiety it aroused, no mention @@ -1652,10 +1617,10 @@ saying: 'I was walking along one morning, and as I came to this spot the sun shone out and the subject immediately suggested itself.'[12] From Carlsruhe Brahms proceeded to Switzerland, where he appeared at -Basle, Zuerich, and Winterthur. At Zuerich he conducted his D major +Basle, Zürich, and Winterthur. At Zürich he conducted his D major Serenade, given there two years previously under Fichtelberger, and performed the solo of Schumann's Pianoforte Concerto, and Bach's -Chromatic Fantasia; and at Winterthur he gave a chamber music soiree in +Chromatic Fantasia; and at Winterthur he gave a chamber music soirée in combination with his friend Theodor Kirchner and the young violinist F. Hegar. Of this Widmann, who saw and heard Brahms for the first time on the occasion, has given some account in his 'Recollections.' @@ -1666,13 +1631,13 @@ the occasion, has given some account in his 'Recollections.' Returning to Germany, Brahms appeared next at Mannheim, and, on December 12, conducted his D major Serenade and played Beethoven's E flat -Concerto at the fifth Guerzenich subscription concert of the season at +Concerto at the fifth Gürzenich subscription concert of the season at Cologne. He had but little success on this occasion either as pianist or composer. The serenade was criticised as being too lengthy and its -themes as too 'naive' for his elaborate treatment of them. A different -reception was accorded him at a soiree of chamber music held at the +themes as too 'naïve' for his elaborate treatment of them. A different +reception was accorded him at a soirée of chamber music held at the conservatoire, when he performed with Hiller his Duet Variations, Op. -23, and with von Koenigslow and his colleagues the G minor Pianoforte +23, and with von Königslow and his colleagues the G minor Pianoforte Quartet. Both works were received with acclamation, and the composer achieved a success worthy of his position in the world of art. Before leaving Cologne Brahms played at a meeting of the Musikverein to a @@ -1692,8 +1657,8 @@ wife, was just turned forty-one, and therefore more than seventeen years the junior of her proposed third husband. She had an only child, her son Fritz, born of her second marriage, now a lad of about thirteen. Capable and managing, she kept an excellent public dining-room for single men -not far from the musicians' 'Boerse,' described in an early chapter of -our narrative, and had a regular _clientele_ amongst the members of the +not far from the musicians' 'Börse,' described in an early chapter of +our narrative, and had a regular _clientèle_ amongst the members of the Stadt Theater orchestra. Since the time when Johannes had thought it advisable for his parents to separate, Jakob had been one of her daily customers, and her good cooking and substantial capacity had gradually @@ -1720,7 +1685,7 @@ father's affairs. These social occasions were but the interludes between more serious pleasures. Every day there was music at the palace, the castle, or one or more of the private musical houses. Brahms conducted his A major Serenade and played Beethoven's E flat Concerto at an -orchestral concert, and took part in a soiree at the palace, where, +orchestral concert, and took part in a soirée at the palace, where, amongst other things, he performed the Kreutzer Sonata with Bargheer before the well-remembered sympathetic court circle. The visit, which was the last paid by him to Detmold, formed a fitting close to his @@ -1732,7 +1697,7 @@ genius and their appreciation of his personality. Brahms' next destination was Oldenburg, where he arrived in time to celebrate the New Year's festival of 1866 with the Dietrichs. He played his own Concerto and an unpublished composition of Schubert at the -subscription concert of January 5, and at the chamber music soiree of +subscription concert of January 5, and at the chamber music soirée of the 10th contributed some Bach solos to the programme and took part with Dietrich in a performance of Schumann's Variations in B flat, and with Engel and Westermann in the first public performance of his own Horn @@ -1746,7 +1711,7 @@ of his work with the ventil horn. softly the piano and violin are not obliged to adapt themselves to him, and the tone is rough from the beginning.'[13] -The appearances at Oldenburg closed the _tournee_. Gratified as our +The appearances at Oldenburg closed the _tournée_. Gratified as our musician declared himself to be with the results of his journey, which, if it had not brought him a series of triumphs, had at least demonstrated the fact that his works were gradually making their way @@ -1773,7 +1738,7 @@ Choruses, Op. 37, for unaccompanied women's voices, and mentioned in our first volume in connection with the Ladies' Choir. By Simrock, the second String Sextet in G major, worthy sister to its companion work, though it has not obtained quite so wide a popularity, and the Sonata in -E minor, dedicated to Dr. Josef Gaensbacher. The Horn Trio was issued by +E minor, dedicated to Dr. Josef Gänsbacher. The Horn Trio was issued by the same house quite at the end of the year.[15] The Sonata in E minor for pianoforte and violoncello, the earliest of @@ -1852,9 +1817,9 @@ felicitations on the occasion. It is still in existence, and is now in the possession of Herr Fritz Schnack, 'the second Fritz,' as Johannes caressingly called his quasi stepbrother. -Persuaded by Theodor Kirchner, who was at this time resident in Zuerich, +Persuaded by Theodor Kirchner, who was at this time resident in Zürich, to spend the summer near him, Brahms, arriving in the middle of April, -found a lodging in a small house on the Zuerichberg which commanded a +found a lodging in a small house on the Zürichberg which commanded a splendid prospect of lake and mountain. Here every facility was abundantly at hand for his enjoyment. Dividing his time, from a very early hour of the morning until noon, between musing in the open air and @@ -1866,19 +1831,19 @@ the open air, he would drop in at a friend's house, generally Kirchner's, pass an hour or two in informal sociability, and often make music with some of the resident musicians. It was at Kirchner's that he became acquainted with the celebrated Swiss writer and poet, Gottfried -Keller, and with the distinguished Zuerich professor of surgery, Dr. +Keller, and with the distinguished Zürich professor of surgery, Dr. Theodor Billroth, who was some four years our composer's senior, and who, called subsequently to Vienna, became one of Brahms' most familiar friends. Billroth's love for music was second only to his devotion to his own great vocation. He had studied the violin under Eschmann, played -at a weekly trio meeting at his house in Plattenstrasse, Zuerich, and was +at a weekly trio meeting at his house in Plattenstrasse, Zürich, and was sufficiently proficient to take part on the viola with professional musicians in private performances of Beethoven's quartets and Brahms' sextets. He could play the piano well, was a good sight-reader, and -acted occasionally as musical critic to one of the Zuerich papers. +acted occasionally as musical critic to one of the Zürich papers. 'Brahms arrived here a few days ago,' he writes on the 22nd of - April to his friend, Professor Luebke of Stuttgart. 'This morning he + April to his friend, Professor Lübke of Stuttgart. 'This morning he and Kirchner played some of Liszt's symphonic poems on two pianofortes. Horrible music!... We purged ourselves with Brahms' new sextet that has just come out. Brahms and Kirchner played it as @@ -1886,7 +1851,7 @@ acted occasionally as musical critic to one of the Zuerich papers. The composer became intimate, also, at the house of Herr and Frau Wesendonck, who had been Wagner's great friends during his residence at -Zuerich, and could not hear enough about the composer of the +Zürich, and could not hear enough about the composer of the 'Meistersinger,' of whom the Wesendoncks possessed inexhaustible personal recollections and several valuable souvenirs. Amongst these was the master's autograph score of the 'Rheingold,' an object that was @@ -1900,13 +1865,13 @@ who was the inseparable associate of Brahms and Kirchner: '... We were no less impressed by his extraordinarily sound health. He could venture upon anything. How often has he passed the night on the sofa of my bachelor's quarters when he was disinclined to - climb the Zuerichberg in the late hours of evening. Once indeed, + climb the Zürichberg in the late hours of evening. Once indeed, when an older friend less hardy than himself claimed my hospitality, he lay down underneath my grand piano, and declared next morning that he had slept splendidly.' Hegar mentions that Brahms' musical memory and unusually rapid power of -apprehension excited the astonished admiration of the Zuerich musicians. +apprehension excited the astonished admiration of the Zürich musicians. 'When we played him our compositions for the first time, he would afterwards sit down and repeat long portions note for note from @@ -1940,7 +1905,7 @@ degree, but he adopted it a second time, and, as it proved, permanently, about fourteen years later. The composer had worked steadily on at the German Requiem during the -months of his residence in Zuerich, and that he now completed it in +months of his residence in Zürich, and that he now completed it in Lichtenthal--save and excepting only the fifth number--is to be inferred from the inscription on the manuscript score--'Baden-Baden im Sommer, 1866'--now in possession of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at Vienna. @@ -1977,7 +1942,7 @@ seriously to entertain the idea of settling down again under his father's roof. Frau Caroline managed the household with careful but judicious thrift, and there was peace and contentment in the home. In his own way Jakob was as regular in his habits as his son. Every morning -he went to the 'Boerse' to inquire for work, and was generally successful +he went to the 'Börse' to inquire for work, and was generally successful in obtaining small engagements, often to act as substitute in the theatre orchestras. His position as bassist at the Stadt Theater had come to an end in the course of the fifties, owing to changes in the @@ -2013,7 +1978,7 @@ in C minor of which we heard in the summer of 1862. be a joy to have you here for a day, to play you my so-called German Requiem. - 'I have been till now living in Switzerland, in Zuerich. I shall + 'I have been till now living in Switzerland, in Zürich. I shall stay here a little and think of going then to Vienna....'[20] The concert-journey with Joachim was very successful, and afforded @@ -2025,24 +1990,24 @@ who, as the reader may remember, was one of the most gifted musicians of the Schumann circle, and who seized every opportunity that offered from the beginning of Brahms' career, to spread the understanding of his compositions. Kirchner filled an organist's post at Winterthur for -nearly ten years before his removal to Zuerich in 1862, and, whilst +nearly ten years before his removal to Zürich in 1862, and, whilst developing an active musical life in the little town, made his influence felt far beyond its limits. The tour opened on October 24 in Schaffhausen, and included Winterthur, -Basle, and finally Muehlhausen in Alsace. An interesting incident of the -visit to Muehlhausen was the renewal of friendly relations, after ten -years of estrangement, between Joachim and von Buelow, who was resident +Basle, and finally Mühlhausen in Alsace. An interesting incident of the +visit to Mühlhausen was the renewal of friendly relations, after ten +years of estrangement, between Joachim and von Bülow, who was resident during the season 1866-67 at Basle, and gave Trio concerts there with Abel and Kahnt. No communication took place between the former Weimar intimates during the week passed by Brahms and Joachim at Basle, but -Buelow's affectionate nature was strongly stirred by seeing his old +Bülow's affectionate nature was strongly stirred by seeing his old friend again on the concert-platform and hearing his public performances, which he describes as 'ideal perfection.' The sequel may be told in the words of his letter to Raff, dated Basle, November 22. 'And now, a great piece of news. On Sunday the 10th I travelled to - Muehlhausen for the Brahms-Joachim concert, and the relation of + Mühlhausen for the Brahms-Joachim concert, and the relation of friendship between Joachim and me was renewed on French soil after ten years' interruption. This will lead to no results of a positive nature, but a stone has been taken from my heart, and from his also @@ -2050,7 +2015,7 @@ be told in the words of his letter to Raff, dated Basle, November 22. to Basle for a few hours and then took the night train to Paris.'[21] -Some years were yet to elapse before Buelow could pretend to any +Some years were yet to elapse before Bülow could pretend to any cordiality of feeling towards the art of Brahms. In another letter of 1866 we read: @@ -2065,12 +2030,12 @@ time living in Switzerland in the enjoyment of Wagner's intimacy; and he included Joachim's Variations for viola and pianoforte in the same programme; but as late as 1870 he wrote to Raff: - 'What do the Br.'s matter to me? Brahms, Brahmueller, Bruch, etc. + 'What do the Br.'s matter to me? Brahms, Brahmüller, Bruch, etc. Don't mention them again! Who knows whether a Riehl may not turn up in 1950 to beplutarch them as maestrinelli? The only one who interests me is Braff!' -The fact that von Buelow's critical faculty was subject to the disturbing +The fact that von Bülow's critical faculty was subject to the disturbing influence of his capacity for warm friendship cannot lessen the admiration inspired by his talents and his generous nature. His severe animadversions on Brahms' works, together with his practical neglect of @@ -2082,7 +2047,7 @@ and of his long-continued intimate association with the leaders and prominent disciples of the New-German school. Brahms returned to Vienna, after about a year and a half of absence, -immediately after his friend's departure from Muehlhausen, and spent the +immediately after his friend's departure from Mühlhausen, and spent the winter quietly at work in his room on the fourth story of No. 6, Poststrasse. The earliest event of any importance to his career that marks the opening months of the year 1867 is the first public @@ -2218,12 +2183,12 @@ which he no doubt started with a mind sufficiently relieved by the mere fact of his decision to be able to await with composure the next issues of fate. -Herr koeniglich Musikdirektor Carl Martin Reinthaler (born 1822), +Herr königlich Musikdirektor Carl Martin Reinthaler (born 1822), municipal music-director of Bremen and organist of the cathedral, to whom the manuscript is meanwhile to be submitted, was a distinguished musician and the composer of numerous works in very varied forms, vocal and instrumental. His oratorio 'Jepthah' was performed in London in -1856 under John Hullah's direction; several of his operas--'Kaethchen von +1856 under John Hullah's direction; several of his operas--'Käthchen von Heilbronn,' 'Edda,' etc.--composed later in his career, were given with success in Bremen, Hanover, and other towns; and his 'Bismarck Hymn' won the prize in a competition adjudged at Dortmund. By his talent and @@ -2238,7 +2203,7 @@ Bremen, he did much to raise the standard of musical taste in the city. (Joseph dearest, Joseph mine, Help me rock the babe divine. Heaven's blessing shall be thine - In th' kingdom of the Virgin's Son, Marie.) + In th' kingdom of the Virgin's Son, Mariè.) [12] Personally communicated to the author by Herr Hofcapellmeister Dietrich. @@ -2257,18 +2222,18 @@ Thematic Catalogue as 1868. [17] 'Briefe von Theodor Billroth' (sixth enlarged edition). -[18] 'Neujahrsblatt der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft in Zuerich,' 1898. +[18] 'Neujahrsblatt der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft in Zürich,' 1898. [19] The author is indebted for this and a few other extracts from Frau -Schumann's diary to the kindness of Fraeulein Marie Schumann. +Schumann's diary to the kindness of Fräulein Marie Schumann. [20] The date assigned to this letter in Dietrich's 'Recollections' is one amongst several similar mistakes that occur in the volume. They are to be explained by the circumstances that Brahms rarely put dates to his letters, and that those in question were supplied from memory. -[21] 'Briefe u. Schriften von Hans von Buelow.' Published by Marie von -Buelow. +[21] 'Briefe u. Schriften von Hans von Bülow.' Published by Marie von +Bülow. @@ -2276,7 +2241,7 @@ Buelow. CHAPTER XIV 1867-1869 - Brahms' holiday journey with his father and Gaensbacher--Austrian + 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 Stockhausen in North Germany and Denmark--Performance of the German Requiem in Bremen @@ -2296,12 +2261,12 @@ to a standstill, he pursed up his lips and looked at Bade with an expression of sly significance. 'Min Hannes het mi inladt; ick reis mit min Hannes' (My Hannes has invited me; I travel with my Hannes), he said in answer to Bade's demands for an explanation. A glimpse of him on his -arrival is afforded by the recollection of Dr. Josef Gaensbacher, who was +arrival is afforded by the recollection of Dr. Josef Gänsbacher, who was to accompany father and son on their journey, and, calling to make last arrangements with Johannes, found Jakob with him. The manuscript of the beautiful song 'Mainacht,' which had that day been composed, was at -hand, and at his friend's request Gaensbacher sang it then and there, and -added the lovely 'Wie bist du meine Koenigin' for the benefit of the +hand, and at his friend's request Gänsbacher sang it then and there, and +added the lovely 'Wie bist du meine Königin' for the benefit of the elder Brahms, who expressed himself, as in duty bound, pleased with the songs, and was undoubtedly gratified by the compliment paid him. @@ -2314,7 +2279,7 @@ a youth of nineteen, did not develop any great appreciation of the beauties of nature. He managed the ascent of the Hochschwab, or part of it, on foot, but it was a great deal too much for him. He was too old and too heavy to begin an apprenticeship as a mountaineer, and on the -next expedition of the kind made by Johannes and Gaensbacher he remained +next expedition of the kind made by Johannes and Gänsbacher he remained behind at the village of Wildalpen. He got on much better when walking on the even, but wisely made no attempt to emulate the indefatigable pedestrian powers of his son, who would frequently stride on until he @@ -2387,7 +2352,7 @@ under Herbeck at the Gesellschaft concert of December 1, and a tour arranged with Joachim for the ante-Christmas concert-season included concerts in Vienna, Budapest, and various provincial towns. The journey, which opened at Vienna on November 9, was triumphantly successful. -Joachim performed the great solos of his repertoire by Bach, Tartini, +Joachim performed the great solos of his répertoire by Bach, Tartini, and Spohr, and shorter pieces by Schumann and Paganini, with all of which concert-goers are now familiar, appearing also on his own account in several great orchestral concerts. Brahms played works by Bach, @@ -2398,7 +2363,7 @@ Schubert's Fantasia, Op. 159, and Rondo Brilliant, Op. 70, etc. 'When Brahms and Joachim play Beethoven, Bach, Schubert together, the conceptions are like living tone pictures,' says Billroth, who, called to Vienna about a year after his first acquaintance with Brahms at -Zuerich and settled there for good, had the delight of receiving and +Zürich and settled there for good, had the delight of receiving and hearing his two great artist friends at his house several times during the two months of Joachim's stay. @@ -2407,7 +2372,7 @@ Schubert, and the three first numbers of the German Requiem formed an appropriate first portion of a programme of which the second half consisted of a selection from Schubert's music to 'Rosamund,' given for the first time in a concert-room. The choruses were, of course, sung by -the Singverein, and Dr. Paenzer, of the imperial chapel, was responsible +the Singverein, and Dr. Pänzer, of the imperial chapel, was responsible for the baritone solo of the Requiem. The performance of Brahms' movements did not result in a success, though @@ -2679,7 +2644,7 @@ Waltzes for four hands on the Piano, dedicated to Hanslick; and a book of five Songs for men's four-part Chorus, both issued in the spring by Rieter-Biedermann. Several, at least, of the waltzes date from the Detmold period, and were played by Brahms, and heard by Carl von -Meysenbug, at the Hotel Stadt Frankfurt. They are inimitable in their +Meysenbug, at the Hôtel Stadt Frankfurt. They are inimitable in their delicate, caressing grace, and possess a charm which perhaps exceeds that of any known examples of their kind. They were performed from the manuscript, as finally arranged for publication, by Frau Schumann and @@ -2742,10 +2707,10 @@ subscription concert of the 4th,[26] and gave concerts with Stockhausen during the same week in Dresden and Berlin, appearing for the first time before the public of either capital. At the second concert in Berlin (March 7) Nos. 3 and 5 of the 'Magelone Romances' were included in the -programme. On the 11th the two artists gave a soiree in Hamburg, when +programme. On the 11th the two artists gave a soirée in Hamburg, when Stockhausen introduced Brahms' 'Mailied' and 'Von ewiger Liebe' from the manuscripts, and gave several folk-songs as an encore. At Kiel, where -they appeared on the 13th, they made the acquaintance of Loewe, the +they appeared on the 13th, they made the acquaintance of Löwe, the famous ballad composer, now a man of seventy-two, with whose music Brahms proved to be thoroughly familiar. Their next destination was Copenhagen, where they had arranged to give four concerts. Stockhausen's @@ -2772,7 +2737,7 @@ Berlin. This unfortunate remark, made in a circle representative of educated Danish society, where the remembrance of the recent Prussian occupation of Schleswig-Holstein was still sore, produced an effect which the speaker had been far from intending. It was regarded as a -deliberate insult to the country in which Brahms had been a feted guest, +deliberate insult to the country in which Brahms had been a fêted guest, and was resented so strongly as to make the composer's reappearance on a Copenhagen platform impossible. Pursuing the wisest course open, he embarked on the next boat for Kiel, leaving Stockhausen to make such @@ -2811,8 +2776,8 @@ distinguished visitors from far and near were expected to be present as performers or in the audience. To the gratification of the former members of the Ladies' Choir, Brahms expressed a wish that the old favourite society should be represented in the chorus, and four of the -most enthusiastic and trusty of his quondam disciples--Fraeulein Garbe, -Fraeulein Reuter, Fraeulein Seebohm, and Fraeulein Marie Voelckers--answered +most enthusiastic and trusty of his quondam disciples--Fräulein Garbe, +Fräulein Reuter, Fräulein Seebohm, and Fräulein Marie Völckers--answered to his summons, arriving at Bremen in time to take part in the last general rehearsal. The programme of the sacred concert, the proceeds of which were to be devoted to the Bremen musicians' provident fund, @@ -2829,11 +2794,11 @@ The doors of St. Peter's Cathedral Church opened punctually at six o'clock on Good Friday evening, and during the next hour the visitors, many of them old acquaintances of the reader, streamed to their places. Frau Reinthaler and Frau Stockhausen were of course present. The -Dietrichs, with their friend Fraeulein Berninger, came from Oldenburg, -the Grimms from Muenster. The Hamburg contingent included Minna Voelckers, +Dietrichs, with their friend Fräulein Berninger, came from Oldenburg, +the Grimms from Münster. The Hamburg contingent included Minna Völckers, the composer's former pupil and very stanch friend, now grown up into a young lady, and her father, who had invited Jakob Brahms to accompany -them as his guest. Max Bruch, Schuebring, and young Richard Barth were +them as his guest. Max Bruch, Schübring, and young Richard Barth were there. Switzerland was represented by the future publisher of the Requiem, Rieter-Biedermann; England by the enthusiastic John Farmer; and shortly before the time of commencement Frau Schumann walked up the nave @@ -2970,7 +2935,7 @@ stayed, too, for a few days in Oldenburg, and whilst there made several excursions in the neighbourhood with Dietrich and Reinthaler. Driving one day to Wilhelmshaven, the great northern war-harbour of Germany, he was unusually absent-minded and serious, and mentioned that he had been -much struck with Hoelderlin's poem, 'Hyperion's Song of Destiny,' which +much struck with Hölderlin's poem, 'Hyperion's Song of Destiny,' which he had read in the morning for the first time. After inspecting the harbour and its sights, he withdrew to a distant part of the beach, where he was observed by his friends to be busy with pencil and paper. @@ -3025,7 +2990,7 @@ in silence. An incident of the tour which pleased him, perhaps, better than his pedestrian and driving experiences was the trial, at which he was present, of the new movement of the Requiem, which the composer wished to hear before delivering it for publication. This was arranged -for at Zuerich by Hegar. Frau Suter-Weber undertook the soprano solo, and +for at Zürich by Hegar. Frau Suter-Weber undertook the soprano solo, and orchestra and chorus were supplied by resident musicians. Jakob, on this, as indeed on all occasions, fully appreciated the distinction he derived from being his son's companion; but it is certain that he was @@ -3054,10 +3019,10 @@ composer--probably the first before a public audience--of Brahms' Waltzes.[30] Brahms and Stockhausen again united their forces in November, and gave -several concerts together. At the first of two soirees in Hamburg, +several concerts together. At the first of two soirées in Hamburg, Brahms created a furore with some of the Hungarian Dances in their arrangement as solos. The programme included a performance by -Stockhausen and his pupil Fraeulein Girzik of two of the Duets, Op. 28, +Stockhausen and his pupil Fräulein Girzik of two of the Duets, Op. 28, the second of which was rapturously encored. Brahms, as usual, accompanied his friend throughout the evening. He was received with acclamation at Bremen on the 30th of the month, when he played the @@ -3126,21 +3091,21 @@ determined not to publish 'Die Schale der Vergessenheit,' declaring it to be too 'desolate,' but Stockhausen's enthusiasm prevailed to alter his decision. Some of the shorter numbers belong, by date of composition, to an earlier period, as Goethe's 'Die Liebende schreibt,' -the manuscript of which, in the possession of Frau Professor Boeie, bears -the inscription 'Frl. Marie Voelckers in kind remembrance' and the date +the manuscript of which, in the possession of Frau Professor Böie, bears +the inscription 'Frl. Marie Völckers in kind remembrance' and the date 1863. The widely popular 'Wiegenlied,' Op. 49, No. 4, was composed for one of Frau Faber's children, and the accompaniment is reminiscent of a -folk-song which Brahms heard from Fraeulein Bertha Porubszky in the old +folk-song which Brahms heard from Fräulein Bertha Porubszky in the old days of the Hamburg Ladies' Choir. The manuscript bears the inscription 'For Arthur and Bertha Faber for ever happy use. July 1868'; and at the close 'Mit Grazie in infinitum,' and is in the possession of these old friends of the composer. -Now, as ever, Brahms returned with delight to the fresh naivete of the +Now, as ever, Brahms returned with delight to the fresh naïveté of the folk-song, and numerous examples of his settings of texts obtained from German, Bohemian, Italian sources are to be found in these books, of which 'Sonntag,' Op. 47, No. 3, and 'Am Sonntag Morgen,' Op. 49, No. 1, -are perhaps the best known. 'Gold ueberwiegt die Liebe' is a touching +are perhaps the best known. 'Gold überwiegt die Liebe' is a touching little lament (No. 4 of Op. 48). The text of 'Von ewiger Liebe' is itself a Wendic folk-song, but the composer's treatment has placed it amongst the finest works of German art in song-form. As a rule, however, @@ -3191,7 +3156,7 @@ six-part Chorus _a capella_, Op. 42, all of great charm. Its five-bar rhythm is an interesting feature of the second number, the lovely 'Vineta.' The text of No. 3, 'Darthula's Grabesgesang,' is a translation from Ossian, and is contained in Herder's 'Stimmen der -Voelker.' +Völker.' 'Brahms is here,' writes Billroth from Vienna on January 11, 'and is to give concerts with Stockhausen. He is going to bring out a @@ -3264,10 +3229,10 @@ announcement. Brahms' selection for the series included works by Handel, Bach, Couperin, Gluck, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, some of his own Variations--notably those of the B flat Sextet--and Hungarian Dances; and he accompanied his friend in many of the most celebrated songs of -his repertoire. The wonderful performance by the two artists of Brahms' +his répertoire. The wonderful performance by the two artists of Brahms' songs 'Von ewiger Liebe' and 'Mainacht' was one of the choice delights of the first concert. A feature of the second was the performance by -Stockhausen and Fraeulein Girzik of two of the composer's vocal duets. +Stockhausen and Fräulein Girzik of two of the composer's vocal duets. The enthusiasm excited by the concert-givers in Vienna was equalled in Budapest, whither they proceeded on March 10, in order to give a similar series; and it was, if possible, exceeded on their final reappearance in @@ -3283,7 +3248,7 @@ this time, and with the production of the German Requiem it attained a height that gave him future independence of action. Though years were still to pass before his circumstances became easy, they were not again straitened, and from henceforth he undertook concert-journeys only in -the role of a composer, to assist at performances of his own works. The +the rôle of a composer, to assist at performances of his own works. The occasions on which he appeared additionally as pianist with one of Beethoven's or Schumann's great compositions became less and less frequent, moreover, as, with passing time, he felt increasingly out of @@ -3300,7 +3265,7 @@ had made the round of the musical cities of Europe. It was given, for the first time after final completion and publication, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus concert of February 18, 1869, under Reinecke, and was performed in the course of the next few weeks in Basle (twice), -Carlsruhe (twice), Muenster, Cologne, Hamburg, Zuerich, and Weimar, and, +Carlsruhe (twice), Münster, Cologne, Hamburg, Zürich, and Weimar, and, later in the year, in Dessau (twice), Chemnitz (twice), Barmen (four choruses only), Magdeburg, Jena, and again twice in Cologne. The complete work was not heard in Vienna until March 5, 1871, when it was @@ -3309,7 +3274,7 @@ direction, with Frau Wilt and Dr. Krauss as soloists, but achieved no striking success. It was performed on July 7 of the same year (1871) for the first time in England, before an invited audience, at the residence of Sir Henry Thompson. Stockhausen conducted the rehearsals and -performance, and sang the baritone solo, Fraeulein Anna Regan the soprano +performance, and sang the baritone solo, Fräulein Anna Regan the soprano solo. The chorus was composed of about thirty good musicians, and the accompaniments were played in their arrangement as a pianoforte duet by Lady Thompson and the veteran musician Cipriani Potter, then in his @@ -3336,9 +3301,9 @@ of the first artists to perform the work in public, and that he introduced it to a Munich audience is the more interesting since the musicians of the Bavarian capital had in 1869 shown scant, if any, recognition of our composer's art, which was too progressive for Franz -Lachner, and too conservative for von Buelow, the successive leaders, up +Lachner, and too conservative for von Bülow, the successive leaders, up to that date, of the musical life of the city. The work was played by -Buelow in November, 1872, in Carlsruhe, and from that time was heard at +Bülow in November, 1872, in Carlsruhe, and from that time was heard at his concerts with increasing frequency. [22] Dietrich. @@ -3434,7 +3399,7 @@ It would certainly have been matter for surprise if Brahms, who was peculiarly sensitive to the influence of really poetic dramatic effect, and whose interest in the drama furnished him with a source of frequent pleasure that did not diminish as he grew older--he rarely missed a -premiere at the Vienna Burg Theater--had passed through life without +première at the Vienna Burg Theater--had passed through life without feeling the inclination to test his powers as a composer for the stage, and this is very far indeed from being the case. Widmann's account of what took place between himself and Brahms on the subject of opera @@ -3467,15 +3432,15 @@ author and an intimate friend of Reinthaler's. To Bulthaupt he proposed as a subject Schiller's fragment of a play 'Demetrius,' which he esteemed very highly, and, in a long conversation with this gentleman at his house in Bremen, he explained with precision -his ideas as to the desirable treatment even of the minutiae of dramatic +his ideas as to the desirable treatment even of the minutiæ of dramatic action, taking as the theme of his exposition the libretto, written by -Bulthaupt, of Reinthaler's opera 'Kaetchen von Heilbronn.' Some of the +Bulthaupt, of Reinthaler's opera 'Kätchen von Heilbronn.' Some of the peculiarities of his views which created for him unnecessary difficulties must be attributed to his inveterately logical habit of mind, which made it repugnant to him to take certain things for granted for the sake of stage exigencies. He went too far in a desire that the minor details of the drama should be visibly developed. Pointing to a -scene in 'Kaetchen von Heilbronn,' in the course of which three soldiers +scene in 'Kätchen von Heilbronn,' in the course of which three soldiers go into a drinking cellar, not to reappear, he inquired: 'What becomes of them?' 'It is assumed that they go away,' replied Bulthaupt; 'do you mean to say that you wish actually to see them come out again on to the @@ -3512,7 +3477,7 @@ Grimm's play of 'Demetrius' in 1854, and, about the middle of the seventies, the well-known 'Marfa' scena for contralto and orchestra from Schiller's fragment. A similar association is presented in Brahms' favourite suggestion for the text-book of a serio-comic opera or -operetta, of Gozzi's 'Koenig Hirsch,' the work with which Joachim's +operetta, of Gozzi's 'König Hirsch,' the work with which Joachim's 'Overture to a Play of Gozzi's' is to be connected. Arrangements by Brahms of both these compositions of his friend, as pianoforte duets, were found in his rooms after his death, and were published with the @@ -3527,10 +3492,10 @@ Schumann's private circle was the marriage of her third daughter Julie to the Conte Radicati di Marmorito. The legend of an attachment between Brahms and this lady has obtained sufficiently wide credence to demand mention in our pages. It is, perhaps, not unnatural that the composer's -dedication to Fraeulein Julie Schumann of his Variations for two +dedication to Fräulein Julie Schumann of his Variations for two pianofortes on her father's theme, published in 1863, should have led a few enthusiasts to draw their own romantic conclusions, and that such -conclusions should have spread; the less so since Fraeulein Julie was +conclusions should have spread; the less so since Fräulein Julie was possessed of a graceful charm that made her interesting to all who were brought into near contact with her. Brahms was not an exception from others in his power of appreciating her attraction, but his admiration @@ -3553,12 +3518,12 @@ fresh, playful imagination, a mood in which he stands unrivalled. They were performed for the first time in public at the subscription concert of the Carlsruhe court orchestra of October 6. Frau Schumann, who played Beethoven's G major Concerto on the same occasion, and Levi, were the -pianists, and Fraeulein Hausmann, Frau Hauser, Herr Kuerner, and Herr +pianists, and Fräulein Hausmann, Frau Hauser, Herr Kürner, and Herr Brouillet, the singers. Published shortly afterwards by Simrock, they were heard in Vienna before the close of the year at the first Singakademie concert of the season; and were performed at Frau Schumann's concert in Vienna of January 5, 1870, by the concert-giver -and composer and the singers Frau Dustmann, Fraeulein Girzik, Herr Gustav +and composer and the singers Frau Dustmann, Fräulein Girzik, Herr Gustav Walter, and Dr. Krauss. The Rhapsody was first heard privately at the rehearsal of the Carlsruhe @@ -3612,8 +3577,8 @@ German Requiem in 1869 already chronicled, up to the present day, Brahms' music has been well represented in the programmes of the Jena societies under Naumann's direction. -The Rhapsody was given on March 19 under Grimm at Muenster, and a little -later at Capellmeister Hegar's benefit concert at Zuerich. It became a +The Rhapsody was given on March 19 under Grimm at Münster, and a little +later at Capellmeister Hegar's benefit concert at Zürich. It became a favourite work with Frau Joachim, who sang the solo times innumerable with extraordinary power and sympathy and invariable success. @@ -3664,7 +3629,7 @@ possible and beautiful resolution in the third section: Father of love, one tone That can reach his ear, Oh, refresh his heart! - Open his obscured sight + Open his obscurèd sight To the thousand sources Near to the thirsty one In the desert.' @@ -3699,7 +3664,7 @@ were published in 1869 by Senff; and the first two books of Hungarian Dances by Simrock, in the duet form for Pianoforte in which they obtained enormous popularity. It was not until 1872 that they were issued in the arrangement as solos, in which, as we know, they had -formed part of Brahms' repertoire during some years of his virtuoso +formed part of Brahms' répertoire during some years of his virtuoso career.[40] Dunkl, a publisher of Budapest, used to relate in after-years that Brahms, on the occasion of one of his early appearances in that city, called on him and offered a selection of six of the Dances @@ -3781,7 +3746,7 @@ hear in it 'as it were the voice of a multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings'; whilst the third section, partly woven, by various kinds of imitation, from the phrases of 'Nun danket Alle Gott,' which is sounded prominently by the flutes -and trumpets, is animated by a singularly naive spirit of light-hearted +and trumpets, is animated by a singularly naïve spirit of light-hearted happiness and rejoicing. '_And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse: and he that sat @@ -3880,7 +3845,7 @@ Amongst the friends who visited Lichtenthal during the summer of 1871 were Allgeyer, Levi, and Stockhausen, and on September 8 the 'Song of Destiny,' completed in May, was rehearsed at Carlsruhe. -'Hyperion's Schicksalslied,' by Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1834), sets +'Hyperion's Schicksalslied,' by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1834), sets forth the serene, passionless, unchanging existence of the celestials, surrounded by the clear light of eternity; and its contrast, the ever-shifting, suffering life of humanity, wrapped in the darkness of @@ -3912,7 +3877,7 @@ comment on what it depicts. Year-long down into uncertainty.' In Brahms' setting we have yet another fine choral work, characteristic -from every point of view, musical, aesthetic, and psychological--one, +from every point of view, musical, æsthetic, and psychological--one, moreover, which is of quite peculiar interest and value, since it contains an express confession of that creed of love to which the present writer has several times referred as being traceable throughout @@ -3922,7 +3887,7 @@ our brief studies of preceding works, the pathos and tragedy surrounding the lot of mankind being treated with the deep, passionate feeling which is invariably displayed by the composer when he is occupied with this or kindred subjects. Brahms' 'Song of Destiny' does not, however, terminate -with Hoelderlin's, nor could it have done so. Another passion lived +with Hölderlin's, nor could it have done so. Another passion lived stronger within him than that with which he contemplated the phenomena of human suffering, uncertainty, and death; and he has known how to supplement his text with a short, but most exquisitely conceived, @@ -3945,7 +3910,7 @@ The work was performed for the first time from the manuscript on October Philharmonic Society. The overture and garden-scene from Schumann's 'Faust' headed, and the conclusion of the second part--both under Levi's direction--closed the programme, which further included two of -Schubert's songs. Fraeulein Johanna Schwarz and Stockhausen were the +Schubert's songs. Fräulein Johanna Schwarz and Stockhausen were the soloists of the occasion. The impression made by the new work upon the audience of Carlsruhe was @@ -4005,10 +3970,10 @@ him pleasantly of the old home in the Fuhlentwiethe. Frau Vogel was responsible only for his mending, for the cleaning and dusting of his rooms, and for opening the house-door to visitors. He took his early dinner at a restaurant--the 'Kronprinz,' the 'Goldspinnerin,' the 'Zur -schoenen Laterne,' and, for about the last fourteen years of his life, +schönen Laterne,' and, for about the last fourteen years of his life, at the 'Zum rothen Igel,' in the Wildpret Markt--and read the newspapers afterwards over a cup of black coffee at one of the coffee-houses, in -his latter years generally the Cafe Stadtpark. He supped either at home, +his latter years generally the Café Stadtpark. He supped either at home, with a book for company--when his fare usually consisted of bread-and-butter and sausage, with a glass of beer or light wine--or again at a restaurant, when, as at dinner, he liked to be joined by his @@ -4095,7 +4060,7 @@ with a family, and was the recipient of his generosity until her death in 1892. Fritz, 'the wrong Brahms,' as he was sometimes called, by way of distinguishing him from Johannes, gained a good position in Hamburg as a private teacher of the pianoforte, and was for some years on the -staff of visiting teachers at Fraeulein Homann's ladies' school at +staff of visiting teachers at Fräulein Homann's ladies' school at Hamm--an establishment which enjoyed distinguished English as well as German patronage. He had only so far followed in his brother's footsteps as to have been the pupil successively of Cossel and Marxsen, and to @@ -4112,7 +4077,7 @@ He died unmarried in Hamburg in 1886, at the age of fifty-one. Preliminary arrangements were made in good time for the performance of the completed Triumphlied at the Rhine Festival of 1872, held in -Duesseldorf; but as the date drew near the committee strangely refused to +Düsseldorf; but as the date drew near the committee strangely refused to invite the composer to conduct his work, and Brahms therefore withheld the manuscript. It was performed for the first time on June 5 at a farewell concert arranged by the Grand-Ducal Orchestra and the @@ -4243,7 +4208,7 @@ treasures with which Brahms has enriched the musical world. [37] A few words that occur in a letter of Mendelssohn to his sister Fanny Hensel are of interest here. 'Yesterday I read "Nausikaa" to -Cecile in Voss' translation.... This poem is really irresistible when it +Cécile in Voss' translation.... This poem is really irresistible when it becomes sentimental. I always felt an inclination to set it to music, of course not for the theatre, only as an epic, and this whole day I feel renewed pleasure in the idea' (p. 148 of Lady Wallace's translation of @@ -4282,7 +4247,7 @@ The general (public) rehearsal took place on Thursday evening, April 6. this country: _Quartet in A major for Pianoforte and Strings_: May 23, 1871. St. -James's Hall, Musical Union (John Ella), by Jaell, Heermann, Waefelghem, +James's Hall, Musical Union (John Ella), by Jaell, Heermann, Wäfelghem, Lasserre. _Pianoforte Concerto, D minor_: March 9, 1872. Crystal Palace (A. @@ -4313,20 +4278,20 @@ _Serenade in A major (small Orchestra)_: June 29, 1874. St. James's Hall, Philharmonic Society. Conductor: W. G. Cusins. _Liebeslieder, Op. 52_: January 15 and 27, 1877. St. James's Hall, M. -and S. Popular Concerts. Pianists: Fraeulein Marie Krebs and Miss A. -Zimmermann. Singers: Fraeulein Sophie Loewe, Fraeulein Redeker, William +and S. Popular Concerts. Pianists: Fräulein Marie Krebs and Miss A. +Zimmermann. Singers: Fräulein Sophie Löwe, Fräulein Redeker, William Shakespeare, G. Pyatt. _Neue Liebeslieder, Walzer, Op. 65_: May 18, 1877. Cambridge University Musical Society's Concerts. Pianists: C. Villiers Stanford and Raoul C. -de Versan. Singers: Fraeulein Thekla Friedlaender, Fraeulein Redeker, Rev. +de Versan. Singers: Fräulein Thekla Friedländer, Fräulein Redeker, Rev. L. Borrisow, Gerard F. Cobb. N.B.--The _Quartet in G minor_ and the _Quintet in F minor_, both for _Pianoforte and Strings_, were played for the first time at the Popular -Concerts respectively on January 26, 1874, by Halle, Madame -Norman-Neruda (now Lady Halle), Ludwig Straus, and Piatti; and on -February 27, 1875, by Halle, Joachim, L. Ries, and Piatti, but may have +Concerts respectively on January 26, 1874, by Hallé, Madame +Norman-Néruda (now Lady Hallé), Ludwig Straus, and Piatti; and on +February 27, 1875, by Hallé, Joachim, L. Ries, and Piatti, but may have been previously given in England elsewhere. The _Pianoforte Concerto in D minor_ was played for the first time in @@ -4354,7 +4319,7 @@ by Senff. concerts'--Schumann Festival at Bonn--Professor and Frau Engelmann--String Quartets--First performances--Anselm Feuerbach in Vienna--Variations for Orchestra--First performances--'Triumphlied' - at Cologne, Basle, and Zuerich--Resignation of appointment as + at Cologne, Basle, and Zürich--Resignation of appointment as 'artistic director' to the Gesellschaft--Third Pianoforte Quartet. @@ -4442,7 +4407,7 @@ performer's Song of Triumph. certainly be in no better hands.' The Triumphlied was given a week later, December 14, in Munich, under -Franz Wuellner, and was again reviewed at length in the _Allgemeine +Franz Wüllner, and was again reviewed at length in the _Allgemeine Zeitung_ of the 25th in a highly interesting article by Franz Pyllemann. 'The orchestra develops truly royal splendour.... What wealth of @@ -4473,7 +4438,7 @@ on January 5, 1873, was marred by a series of misfortunes. Three works were announced for performance: 1. Hiller: Concert Overture in D major. - 2. Schumann: 'Des Saengers Fluch.' + 2. Schumann: 'Des Sängers Fluch.' 3. Mendelssohn: 'Die Walpurgis Nacht.' Hiller, who happened to be staying in Vienna, had promised to conduct @@ -4483,7 +4448,7 @@ substitute another, which proved ineffective. The drummer was attacked by sudden illness on the day of the concert, and the substitute provided proved unequal to the emergency; Hiller was obliged to rap for silence immediately after beginning the performance of his work, and to -recommence. A similar mishap attended the course of the 'Saengers Fluch,' +recommence. A similar mishap attended the course of the 'Sängers Fluch,' under Brahms' direction, in consequence of a misunderstanding between the solo vocalists and the harpists. Mendelssohn's work alone went without a blemish. @@ -4548,7 +4513,7 @@ the energy and success of Brahms' work in this new field of labour. of death," which had never before been performed. The Viennese accepted this with amiability from such a favourite as Brahms. Two unaccompanied folk-songs which came next ("In stiller Nacht" and - "Der schoenste Bursch am ganzen Rhein") awakened such a storm of + "Der schönste Bursch am ganzen Rhein") awakened such a storm of applause, however, that one almost felt afraid the house would fall in. The old King of Hanover was almost beside himself with musical intoxication. One becomes quite drunk with the beautiful quality of @@ -4570,7 +4535,7 @@ arranged to fulfil the general demand for an encore. Brahms was singularly unfortunate this year in his efforts to secure a quiet retreat for the pursuit of his usual summer avocations. Flying, after two days' residence in lodgings in Gratwein, Styria, from the -attentions of some 'aesthetic ladies' who began to threaten his peace, he +attentions of some 'æsthetic ladies' who began to threaten his peace, he took refuge in the attic of the 'Seerose,' an inn in the Bavarian village of Tutzing, on Lake Starnberg, to receive, the very night of his arrival, a formal written invitation to make one, during his stay, of a @@ -4588,7 +4553,7 @@ for the erection of a memorial to Schumann in the city where the master had passed the two last sad years of his life, and where a Beethoven monument had been unveiled in 1871. There were orchestral concerts on the 17th and 18th, both conducted by Joachim, excepting in the case of -one work (Wasielewsky), and a matinee of chamber music on the 19th, the +one work (Wasielewsky), and a matinée of chamber music on the 19th, the programmes, in which Frau Schumann, Frau Joachim, Stockhausen, and others took part, being entirely selected from Schumann's works. The festival closed with a social function, an excursion by steamer to @@ -4600,7 +4565,7 @@ intimate ally of all four. Many other old friends were there, of whom Freiherr von Meysenbug, as reviving Detmold memories, should be particularly mentioned. Brahms made some new acquaintances also, notably Professor Engelmann and his gifted wife, known in the musical world for -a few seasons as the pianist Fraeulein Emma Brandes, who retired from a +a few seasons as the pianist Fräulein Emma Brandes, who retired from a public career on her early marriage. Brahms, though taking no active part in the concerts, was not at all @@ -4728,7 +4693,7 @@ Austria. The nearly finished pictures were sent to Vienna in March or April, and Feuerbach followed them in May, 1873, but it turned out that they could not be hung in the Exhibition gallery on account of their great size. The painter determined, therefore, to exhibit them one after -the other in the 'Kuenstler-Haus,' and, in order to secure the advantage +the other in the 'Künstler-Haus,' and, in order to secure the advantage of association in the mind of the public with so favourite a celebrity of Vienna as Brahms had at this time become, he requested the master to sit to him on his return in October in order that his portrait might be @@ -4797,14 +4762,14 @@ His pupils, however, offered him the mute sympathy and support of punctual attendance and respectful attention at class, and the Minister remained loyal to him. He retained his appointment till the close of 1876, though ill-health prevented him from performing his duties during -the last half-year. He died at Nuernburg in 1880. His friendship with our +the last half-year. He died at Nürnburg in 1880. His friendship with our master did not terminate with the incident of the pictures. 'Brahms has lent me his fur-coat for my journey,' he wrote in February, 1875, on the eve of his departure for Rome. The 'Battle of the Amazons' was presented by the artist's mother to the -city of Nuernburg in the year 1889, and hangs there in the picture +city of Nürnburg in the year 1889, and hangs there in the picture gallery of the Town Hall. Many of the studies for the 'Amazons' and the 'Symposium' were purchased by King Ludwig II. of Bavaria, and presented by him to the Royal Pinakothek at Munich. @@ -4892,11 +4857,11 @@ varied programme was given at the second concert of December 7: 1. Schubert: Overture to Fierrebras. 2. Schubert: Aria for Tenor (written in 1821 for introduction - into Herold's Opera 'Zaubergloecken' at the - Kaernthnerthor Theater, Vienna; + into Herold's Opera 'Zauberglöcken' at the + Kärnthnerthor Theater, Vienna; unpublished). Herr Gustav Walter. - 3. Volkmann: Concertstueck for Pianoforte and Orchestra. + 3. Volkmann: Concertstück for Pianoforte and Orchestra. Pianoforte, Herr Smetansky. 4. (_a_) Joh. Rud. Ahle (1662)} Unaccompanied Choruses. @@ -4914,7 +4879,7 @@ The publications of the year, all issued in the autumn, were, in addition to the String Quartets, the version for two Pianofortes of the Haydn Variations (Op. 56_b_), by Simrock, and a set of eight Songs (Op. 59), by Rieter-Biedermann. Of these, four are set to texts by Claus -Groth, which include 'Rain-songs' and the lovely 'Dein blaues Auge haelt +Groth, which include 'Rain-songs' and the lovely 'Dein blaues Auge hält so still.' The Variations for Orchestra were published by Simrock in 1874. @@ -4962,7 +4927,7 @@ is only necessary to give the programme of the occasion: 1. Rheinberger: Prelude to the Opera 'The Seven Ravens.' - 2. Goldmark: 'Fruehlings Hymne' (May musings, from the Swedish of + 2. Goldmark: 'Frühlings Hymne' (May musings, from the Swedish of Geijer), for Contralto solo, Chorus, and Orchestra. (First performance, under the composer's direction.) @@ -5024,7 +4989,7 @@ illustration, however, of a certain mysterious power inherent in Brahms' works of finding their way sooner or later, and not seldom it is sooner, to the heart, in spite of their intellectuality, their difficulty, their reserve, is furnished by the case of two sisters, daughters of the head -of one of the great bookselling houses of Leipzig. The Fraeulein Weigand +of one of the great bookselling houses of Leipzig. The Fräulein Weigand did not live in a musical 'set,' nor were they personally acquainted with Brahms or his friends, but not long after their first casual introduction to his music in the middle of the sixties, when they were @@ -5043,7 +5008,7 @@ for their so kind account.' Of the professional critics of Leipzig, Bernsdorf of the Signale remained to the last irreconcilable to Brahms' art; but, on the other -hand, Doerffel of the _Leipziger Nachrichten_ watched the appearance of +hand, Dörffel of the _Leipziger Nachrichten_ watched the appearance of his works with profound interest and reviewed them with extreme sympathy and acumen. There was during the sixties no influential 'Brahms' community in musical Leipzig, no active 'Brahms' propaganda in the @@ -5098,7 +5063,7 @@ survival of a hostile attitude in certain organs of the press, his ground had become practically his own. The Haydn Variations were performed in February or March at Breslau -(twice), Aachen and Muenster, under the respective conductors of the +(twice), Aachen and Münster, under the respective conductors of the subscription concerts, and on March 13 the composer assisted, but with little success, in the performance of a Brahms programme at an Academy concert, Munich, under Levi, conducting the new work, and playing the @@ -5142,10 +5107,10 @@ engagements fulfilled by him after the close of the Vienna concert-season three may be particularly mentioned. He conducted the Triumphlied at the first concert of the Rhine Festival (Cologne, May 24-27), at the Jubilee anniversary concert of the Basle Choral Society, -and at a concert of the Zuerich Music Festival (July), and on each +and at a concert of the Zürich Music Festival (July), and on each occasion the great song was received with acclamation. With this work we may, perhaps, especially associate the honour of the Prussian Ordre pour -le Merite which was conferred later on the composer by the Emperor +le Mérite which was conferred later on the composer by the Emperor William I. He was elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin, in the course of the summer. @@ -5178,22 +5143,22 @@ elaborated features of harmonic or contrapuntal learning that might have been prejudicial to its character as a national strain. It is literally 'a sound of many voices saying Alleluia.' -The master lodged this summer near Nidelbad, above Rueschlikon on Lake -Zuerich. Amongst the friends and acquaintances old and new with whom he +The master lodged this summer near Nidelbad, above Rüschlikon on Lake +Zürich. Amongst the friends and acquaintances old and new with whom he had intercourse were Bargheer, Hegar, G. Eberhard, Gottfried Keller, Bernhard Hopfer, Professor and Frau Engelmann from Utrecht, and J. V. Widmann. Brahms made Widmann's acquaintance at this time at the house of -Hermann Goetz, and seems to have been immediately attracted by him; +Hermann Götz, and seems to have been immediately attracted by him; partly, perhaps, because the younger man had the courage of his opinions, and ventured to oppose him in argument. The acquaintance, -cemented during the three days of the Zuerich Festival, grew into an +cemented during the three days of the Zürich Festival, grew into an intimate and lasting friendship, to which the musical world is indebted for Widmann's well-known and delightful 'Recollections,' already several times referred to in these pages. Hegar mentions[48] that the works which occupied Brahms during his stay -at Rueschlikon were the second set of Liebeslieder, the book of songs, -Lieder and Gesaenge, Op. 63, and the Vocal Quartets, Op. 64. It was at +at Rüschlikon were the second set of Liebeslieder, the book of songs, +Lieder and Gesänge, Op. 63, and the Vocal Quartets, Op. 64. It was at this time, also, that he finally completed the Pianoforte Quartet in C minor. The songs and quartets were published in the autumn by Peters; the four Duets for Soprano and Contralto, Op. 61, and the seven Songs @@ -5202,13 +5167,13 @@ by Simrock. The Neue Liebeslieder and the C minor Quartet for Pianoforte and Strings did not appear till 1875. From this time onward Brahms' copyrights were acquired, as each new work -was completed, by Simrock of Berlin, with only four exceptions--Naenie, +was completed, by Simrock of Berlin, with only four exceptions--Nänie, Op. 82; six Vocal Quartets, Op. 112; thirteen Canons, Op. 113, which were bought by Peters of Leipzig; and a Prelude and Fugue for Organ, published in 1881 as a supplement to the _Musikalisches Wochenblatt_ without opus number. In future, therefore, we shall mention the publication, but not the publisher, of the works. Those compositions -which were originally acquired from the composer by Breitkopf and Haertel +which were originally acquired from the composer by Breitkopf and Härtel were resold by this firm to Simrock later on, and appear, therefore, in the complete published catalogue of Brahms' works as Simrock's publications. @@ -5324,7 +5289,7 @@ ovation. Max Bruch: Odysseus. -At the close of the season Brahms laid down his conductor's baton to +At the close of the season Brahms laid down his conductor's bâton to make room for the return of Herbeck, whose former services, especially in the formation of an independent orchestra, had laid the society under a debt of gratitude, and who, unable to endure the annoyances incidental @@ -5390,7 +5355,7 @@ of which, dated September, 1875, was as follows: 'Parcels such as your last are generally so thorny that some kind preliminary guidance like yours is most welcome and necessary as a help in finding one's way through. This time, however, things are - not so bad, and seem to me fairly simple. Dvorak and Reinhold + not so bad, and seem to me fairly simple. Dvorák and Reinhold thoroughly deserve your proposal by their performances. In Lachner's case (blind) well-justified sympathy counts for something. M. certainly merits some help meanwhile. I mean he ought @@ -5404,7 +5369,7 @@ of which, dated September, 1875, was as follows: The Quartet in C minor for pianoforte and strings, published in the autumn, was produced at Hellmesberger's concert of November 18 by Brahms, Hellmesberger, Bachrich, and Popper, and was played in Hamburg -on January 3, 1876, by Levin, Boeie, Schmall, and Lee. +on January 3, 1876, by Levin, Böie, Schmall, and Lee. This composition must, as the reader is aware,[50] be referred to more than one period of Brahms' activity, and it can hardly be accepted as a @@ -5500,18 +5465,18 @@ disposal for the next morning, and he generally returned from an early walk at about the hour when the household was beginning to stir. After leaving Holland the master took part as conductor and pianist in -concerts at Muenster, where he directed the Triumphlied, Mannheim and +concerts at Münster, where he directed the Triumphlied, Mannheim and Wiesbaden, playing the D minor Concerto on each occasion. He was, of -course, the guest at Muenster of Grimm and his wife. At Mannheim he +course, the guest at Münster of Grimm and his wife. At Mannheim he stayed with his friend the well-known capellmeister Ernst Frank, who in the course of his career was associated as conductor with the musical -life of Wuerzburg, Vienna, Mannheim, and Hanover. The Wiesbaden concert +life of Würzburg, Vienna, Mannheim, and Hanover. The Wiesbaden concert is still vividly remembered by the present Landgraf of Hesse, who, then a young lad, heard Brahms for the first time on the occasion, and received an impression which laid the foundation of his enduring enthusiasm for the master's art. -Staying in the summer at Sassnitz in the Isle of Ruegen, Brahms there +Staying in the summer at Sassnitz in the Isle of Rügen, Brahms there completed his third String Quartet in B flat major, and announced the work in September to Professor Engelmann, to whom it is dedicated. It was played in Berlin before a private audience towards the end of @@ -5535,8 +5500,8 @@ Brahms to be heard at the Popular Concerts, London. It was played on Monday, February 19, and Saturday, March 3, 1877, by Joachim, Ries, Straus, and Piatti. The A minor was performed on Monday, October 31, 1881, by Straus, Ries, Zerbini, and Piatti, and the C minor on Monday, -December 7, 1855, by Madame Norman-Neruda, Ries, Straus, and Franz -Neruda. These (Op. 51, Nos. 1 and 2) were not immediately repeated. +December 7, 1855, by Madame Norman-Néruda, Ries, Straus, and Franz +Néruda. These (Op. 51, Nos. 1 and 2) were not immediately repeated. The great event of the year 1876 in the career of Brahms was the appearance of the long looked for symphony. As in the case of the @@ -5589,7 +5554,7 @@ its own time and even anticipatory of the future; that it not only reflects the soul of the musician, poet, and philosopher, but is suggestive of the higher vision of the prophet. It is this fact, for those who accept it as a fact, that constitutes the highest significance -of Brahms' first symphony, and lends a real meaning to Buelow's +of Brahms' first symphony, and lends a real meaning to Bülow's well-known apophthegm of 'the three B's': Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. The shrill, clashing dissonances of the first introduction at once place @@ -5710,7 +5675,7 @@ Beethoven. to that of the "ninth" symphony. This movement is worthy of the man who composed the German Requiem.' -Doerffel, of the _Leipziger Nachrichten_, wrote: +Dörffel, of the _Leipziger Nachrichten_, wrote: 'The interest of all present was centred on the new symphony, which, on the whole, justified the great expectations with which it @@ -5768,10 +5733,10 @@ enthusiasm could hardly have been anticipated from any large general public--least of all by Brahms himself; but the presence at most of these first performances of devotees specially qualified for apprehending something of the significance of the work generally secured -for it more than a mere _succes d'estime_. The listeners of Munich were +for it more than a mere _succès d'estime_. The listeners of Munich were the least appreciative. Those of Carlsruhe, Mannheim and Breslau were friendly. At Vienna certain favoured friends were privileged to listen -to a private performance of the symphony by Brahms and Ignaz Bruell, in +to a private performance of the symphony by Brahms and Ignaz Brüll, in the composer's arrangement as a pianoforte duet, at the pianoforte house of his friend Herr Hoffabrikant Friedrich Ehrbar, and went to the concert, therefore, with minds partially prepared for what they were to @@ -5786,7 +5751,7 @@ been expressed with added zest and enjoyment when it was found that Frau Schumann and Joachim and Stockhausen had come to hear the symphony, whilst to the support of the von Herzogenbergs, von Holsteins, Theodor Kirchner, and other resident or lately resident friends, was added that -of the Grimms from Muenster, Dr. Hermann Deiters from Bonn, Professor and +of the Grimms from Münster, Dr. Hermann Deiters from Bonn, Professor and Frau Engelmann from Utrecht, Simrock from Berlin, and many other distinguished guests. Enthusiasm is contagious, and already at the rehearsal a success was ensured for the work, though perhaps it was not @@ -5800,7 +5765,7 @@ very warmly helped by the official patrons of the Gewandhaus. enormous, and that the success of the symphony was one exceptional in the annals of the Gewandhaus.' -A large party of friends assembled at supper at the Hotel Hauffe after +A large party of friends assembled at supper at the Hôtel Hauffe after the concert. Brahms' health was proposed in genial fashion by Stockhausen. 'Hab' ich tausendmal geschworen,'[53] he suddenly sang out, starting to his feet and raising his glass. Needless to say that the @@ -5863,10 +5828,10 @@ Cusins. Probably Brahms' Vienna friends and admirers little dreamed how near they had been at this time to losing their favourite. The position of -municipal music-director at Duesseldorf was pressed on his acceptance in +municipal music-director at Düsseldorf was pressed on his acceptance in the autumn of 1876, and he was sufficiently tempted by it to be characteristically unable to decide on a negative answer. He was, -indeed, so long in coming to a final resolution, that the Duesseldorf +indeed, so long in coming to a final resolution, that the Düsseldorf authorities had every reason to feel persuaded they had secured him for the opening of the year 1877. At the last moment he wrote: 'I cannot make up my mind to it.' This seems to have been the last occasion on @@ -5882,9 +5847,9 @@ his Brahms' 'Recollections,' show that at this time, when the master had successfully proved his powers in every form of composition for the concert-room, the old desire to try his hand at writing for the stage revived within him. Brahms and Widmann met at Mannheim, and were present -at the production, on September 30, of Goetz's unfinished opera, +at the production, on September 30, of Götz's unfinished opera, 'Francesca di Rimini,' under Frank. In the course of a long -_tete-a-tete_, held on their return to their hotel after the +_tête-à -tête_, held on their return to their hotel after the performance, Brahms clearly explained his views on the subject of opera texts, 'letting it be seen,' says Widmann, 'that any resolution he might have formed against composing an opera might give way were he to find @@ -5948,7 +5913,7 @@ this connection. Heuberger says: crotchet under crotchet, and that this impaired the legibility of the manuscript; he advised me to be particular to slur the groups of notes with exactness.... "Look here," he said, fetching from the - next room Wagner's autograph score of "Tannhaeuser," which he opened + next room Wagner's autograph score of "Tannhäuser," which he opened at the long B major movement of the second act; "Wagner has taken pains to place each of the five sharps exactly in its place on _every_ line of _every_ page, and in spite of all this precision @@ -5966,7 +5931,7 @@ this connection. Heuberger says: That Brahms was aware that the resolution to compose an opera would place him in a net of difficulties that might practically be summed up -in the one word 'Wagner' is no mere conjecture. Fraeulein Anna Ettlinger, +in the one word 'Wagner' is no mere conjecture. Fräulein Anna Ettlinger, an intimate friend of Levi and Allgeyer, who knew Brahms well both at Carlsruhe and Munich, relates in an article on Levi, that Brahms answered a question put to him in Munich in the course of the seventies, @@ -5990,7 +5955,7 @@ but his suggestions must not be taken too seriously. myself continually thinking that such an opera, even though Brahms had composed for it the most beautiful, glorious music, as would undoubtedly have been the case, could not be regarded as - essentially anything else than a sort of second "Zauberfloete," and + essentially anything else than a sort of second "Zauberflöte," and thus as a retrogression in the development of operatic art.'[58] Nothing, in short, resulted from the talk between Brahms and Widmann, @@ -6115,7 +6080,7 @@ Brahms and Goldmark were to be performed, Heuberger relates: The publication of Brahms' first Symphony in C minor was almost immediately followed by the appearance of a second one in D major, completed during the summer months of 1877 at the beloved Lichtenthal. -It was, like the earlier work, played by Brahms and Bruell before an +It was, like the earlier work, played by Brahms and Brüll before an invited circle at Ehrbar's as a pianoforte duet (composer's arrangement) a few days before the date, December 11, first announced for its performance at a Vienna Philharmonic concert. Cause arose at the last @@ -6146,7 +6111,7 @@ recalling the master at the end; but the enthusiasm of personal friends was not this time able to kindle any corresponding warmth in the bulk of the audience, or even to cover the general consciousness of the fact. The most favourable of the press notices damned the work with faint -praise, and Doerffel, whom we quote here and elsewhere because he alone +praise, and Dörffel, whom we quote here and elsewhere because he alone of the professional Leipzig critics of the seventies seems to have been imbued with a sense of Brahms' artistic greatness, showed himself quite angry from disappointment. @@ -6171,7 +6136,7 @@ angry from disappointment. expectations which our reverence for the composer induced us to form.' -Possibly Doerffel's expectations had been founded too definitely upon his +Possibly Dörffel's expectations had been founded too definitely upon his admiration of the first symphony, which may have caused him to take for granted that he would find in the second a reiteration of the exalted moods of its predecessor. The two works should not, however, be weighed @@ -6208,9 +6173,9 @@ strongly-expressed desire of many musicians of the city, the composer was invited to conduct a repetition performance at the Philharmonic concert of January 18, 1878, when the work achieved considerable success. It was heard the same month in Bremen and Utrecht under Brahms, -in Muenster (J. O. Grimm), Dresden (F. Wuellner), and in February for the +in Münster (J. O. Grimm), Dresden (F. Wüllner), and in February for the second time in Breslau (Scholz), and made its way in the course of a few -seasons to Basle, Zuerich, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Hague, Edinburgh, +seasons to Basle, Zürich, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Hague, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and New York. Brahms now, at the age of forty-four, was, indeed, in the enjoyment of @@ -6235,7 +6200,7 @@ the very heart of things. A noteworthy addition was made in the course of the year 1877 to the ranks of Brahms' most stanch and influential supporters in the person of -Hans von Buelow. Remark has already been made on the change observable in +Hans von Bülow. Remark has already been made on the change observable in the early seventies in the attitude of this gifted, witty, whimsical, uncompromising, true-hearted musician towards Brahms' art. The publication of the first symphony completed his conversion, and he soon @@ -6244,22 +6209,22 @@ carried on as it was with characteristic vehemence and eccentricity, and started at the very moment when the great composer was achieving the highest summit of fame, an entirely fictitious importance has sometimes been ascribed in regard to its effect upon the outward development of -Brahms' career. That von Buelow during the last ten or twelve years of +Brahms' career. That von Bülow during the last ten or twelve years of his public activity partially devoted his energies to the task of forcing the master's works upon certain more or less indifferent audiences, whom he harangued and lectured concerning their lack of interest, had no bearing on the facts that Brahms' place amongst the immortals had been assured, by practically general consent, with the first few performances of the German Requiem, and that by the beginning -of the eighties acceptance of his art had become world-wide. Buelow's new +of the eighties acceptance of his art had become world-wide. Bülow's new partisanship, destined to bring in its train distinguished friendships that were truly prized and reciprocated by the master, was touching from its sincerity, but is not of essential importance to Brahms' biographer. It is, however, pleasant to be able to add to the extracts already -quoted from Buelow's writings three which, dated October and November, +quoted from Bülow's writings three which, dated October and November, 1877, mark the beginning of a new epoch in his own career, and in that of Brahms the commencement of an agreeable and valued personal intimacy. -The paragraphs are to be taken merely as illustrations of Buelow's +The paragraphs are to be taken merely as illustrations of Bülow's changed sentiments, and not as necessarily expressing the personal views of the present writer. @@ -6281,7 +6246,7 @@ of the present writer. [52] The variations for orchestra on Haydn's theme and six of Brahms' songs, sung by Henschel, were included in the programme of the concert. -[53] Goethe's song, 'Unueberwindlich,' set by Brahms and published in +[53] Goethe's song, 'Unüberwindlich,' set by Brahms and published in 1877 as No. 6 of Op. 72: 'Though a thousand vows I've taken.' [54] Article in the _New York Outlook_, July 25, 1903. @@ -6290,7 +6255,7 @@ songs, sung by Henschel, were included in the programme of the concert. [56] _Die Musik_, in the article referred to in a previous chapter. -[57] Fraeulein Ettlinger informs the author that it was she herself who +[57] Fräulein Ettlinger informs the author that it was she herself who put the question to the master and received his answer. For the article on Levi see 'Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog,' 1902. @@ -6337,7 +6302,7 @@ congenial to him. were so charmed with everything doubles my pleasure.' The new symphony was included in the Rhine Festival, held this year at -Duesseldorf under Joachim and Tausch. Amongst Joachim's duties was that +Düsseldorf under Joachim and Tausch. Amongst Joachim's duties was that of conducting the performance of his friend's work, concerning which we read in a contemporary journal: @@ -6351,7 +6316,7 @@ And again in a final summary: 'The most brilliant event of the festival was the performance of Brahms' symphony.' -The composer spent the summer at Poertschach on Lake Woerther in +The composer spent the summer at Pörtschach on Lake Wörther in Carinthia, a spot where, as he writes to Hanslick, 'so many melodies fly about one must be careful not to tread on them.' In the same letter[61] he talks playfully to his old friend, who, remaining a bachelor till @@ -6383,10 +6348,10 @@ beginning of September no one in Hamburg knew whether or not he intended to be present, and the directors of the festival, finding themselves very near a predicament, resolved to appeal to Hanslick, who had received and accepted an invitation, to procure his answer for them. The -letter which Hanslick immediately wrote to Poertschach elicited from +letter which Hanslick immediately wrote to Pörtschach elicited from Brahms the following reply: - 'POeRTSCHACH, _Sept., 1878_. + 'PÖRTSCHACH, _Sept., 1878_. 'You have once already publicly preached to me the doctrine of decorum; I do not wish this to occur, from no fault of mine, a @@ -6441,8 +6406,8 @@ up to rehearsal--especially of Brahms' new symphony, under the composer's direction; the afternoon, to the excursion and banquet. Almost everyone had come from everywhere. Besides those who were taking part in the concerts there were Hiller, Gernsheim, Gade, Reinecke, -Reinthaler, Grimm, Flotow, Theodor Kirchner, Verhuelst (from the Hague), -Hanslick, Claus Groth, not to mention Graedener, of early days, and a +Reinthaler, Grimm, Flotow, Theodor Kirchner, Verhülst (from the Hague), +Hanslick, Claus Groth, not to mention Grädener, of early days, and a host of old Hamburg friends. Our master was in genial mood, and chatted gaily with acquaintances old and new during the run down the river, but a sign showed that his thoughts were with the past. Claus Groth, who was @@ -6497,7 +6462,7 @@ work, continues: thousands raised to festival pitch, in which mingled a large number of musical authorities from outside. The enthusiasm was increased by this circumstance, and by the simplicity and quiet energy with - which Brahms handled the baton. It prepared for him an ovation as + which Brahms handled the bâton. It prepared for him an ovation as he ascended the conductor's desk in the shape of a big laurel wreath, a flourish, and a stormy welcome from those upon and in front of the platform; it broke out after each of the four @@ -6509,7 +6474,7 @@ work, continues: revered composer.' The last few words seem to remind us of the early sixties, and to bring -us once more face to face with the Halliers, Voelckers, Wagners, Fraeulein +us once more face to face with the Halliers, Völckers, Wagners, Fräulein Laura Garbe, and other former members of the ladies' choir, many of whom were still resident in Hamburg, and, having retained their old affectionate admiration of their young musician without a jot of @@ -6517,7 +6482,7 @@ abatement as they watched his course during the passing years, now brought affection, admiration, and sympathetic triumph dressed in graceful guise to throw at the feet of the famous master. Marxsen, prevented by considerations of health from joining the excursion down -the river, was present at the concert, beaming with joy; Boeie, too, +the river, was present at the concert, beaming with joy; Böie, too, associated with early performances of the B flat Sextet and the G minor Pianoforte Quartet, was there, whilst the presence of Christian Otterer, who had played viola as an old friend at the subscription concert given @@ -6572,7 +6537,7 @@ text. Of other early performances of the second symphony we may mention those of October 22 in Breslau, under the composer, and of November 23 in -Muenster, under Grimm. Such a furore was created in Muenster that the work +Münster, under Grimm. Such a furore was created in Münster that the work was repeated by general desire at the concert of December 21. At the Vienna Gesellschaft concert of December 8, No. 1 of the two @@ -6613,7 +6578,7 @@ had elapsed since its completion in final form (Detmold, autumn of now know it to have been associated. The experience of a life, therefore, may almost be said to have intervened between the two works. -Turning to our old friend Doerffel, already doubly proved impartial, for +Turning to our old friend Dörffel, already doubly proved impartial, for his immediate impressions of the Gewandhaus concert of January 1, we find his report very interesting reading. @@ -6654,7 +6619,7 @@ and 20 (W. G. Cusins), at some of his appearances in the north of Britain, and, a little later, at a concert of the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin, when the accompaniment was played by his school orchestra. Published in the course of the year, it has ever since held a -conspicuous place in his repertoire. The violinists Brodsky and, a +conspicuous place in his répertoire. The violinists Brodsky and, a little later, Frau Roeger-Soldat were amongst those who associated their names in a special manner with the early life of the work, which has recently been frequently performed with immense success by Fritz @@ -6666,7 +6631,7 @@ maintained at a loftier height than that of the earlier composition, the limpid grace of which has an immediate fascination for a general audience. The concerto requires time for full appreciation, and though, by general consent of the initiated, it undoubtedly occupies a position -on the plane assigned to it by Doerffel, it would be too much to assert +on the plane assigned to it by Dörffel, it would be too much to assert that it has as yet entirely conquered the heart of the great public. It is gradually making its way, however, to what will probably become unreserved popularity. @@ -6781,7 +6746,7 @@ hall of the Vienna 'Gesellschaft,' with the result to be expected from the association of two names so dear to the Austrian public. The sonata was performed for the first time in England at the Monday -Popular concert of February 2 by von Buelow and Madame Norman-Neruda, and +Popular concert of February 2 by von Bülow and Madame Norman-Néruda, and at the Wednesday Popular concert, Cambridge, on the 25th of the same month by C. Villiers Stanford and Richard Gompertz. One of the earliest performances in Germany was that by Scholz and Himmelstoss at Breslau on @@ -6801,13 +6766,13 @@ of Brahms, and well known later on as von Bernuth's successor at Hamburg, who was always present with his colleagues at these private gatherings; and the enjoyment of the circle was enhanced during Brahms' later visits to Crefeld by the singing, to the master's accompaniment, -of Fraeulein Antonia Kufferath. This lady (now Mrs. Edward Speyer) has +of Fräulein Antonia Kufferath. This lady (now Mrs. Edward Speyer) has interesting recollections connected with the Crefeld visits. Amongst them is that of Brahms, who when once a composition was published allowed it to pass from his mind, sometimes almost completely, coming unawares upon a difficult passage in the accompaniment of one of his songs, and having an instant's struggle with it. At the end he turned to -Fraeulein Kufferath, saying, 'That is really difficult to read at sight!' +Fräulein Kufferath, saying, 'That is really difficult to read at sight!' The musical event which gives particular distinction to the Crefeld concert of 1880, the programme of which included Brahms' second @@ -6879,7 +6844,7 @@ his mature mastership, must be ascribed the willingness shown by him, from the middle of the seventies onward, to concern himself with the musical progress of certain young composers who were courageous enough to ask his opinion and advice, and in whose works he discerned talent. -Mention has been made of his prompt and emphatic appreciation of Dvorak. +Mention has been made of his prompt and emphatic appreciation of Dvorák. Amongst other musicians of distinction who in their youth enjoyed the advantage of his interest and friendship are Drs. Richard Heuberger, Eusebius Mandycweski (now holding the important position of librarian to @@ -6953,7 +6918,7 @@ prostrated with sorrow, from the funeral ceremony. Frau Schumann now stood with her daughters at the foot of the monument, her usual pathetic expression deepened by the rush of varied memories, but with controlled demeanour. Amongst those present in an official capacity were the mayor -of Bonn, Herr Oberbuergermeister Doetsch; the sculptor, Professor +of Bonn, Herr Oberbürgermeister Doetsch; the sculptor, Professor Donnhorf, from Dresden; the president of the memorial committee, Professor Schaafhausen, and the members of the two choral societies with President Wrede. @@ -6963,7 +6928,7 @@ was the prelude to the address in which Geheimrath Schaafhausen gave the monument over to the city of Bonn. Whilst he was speaking the covering fell, and as he concluded many beautiful wreaths were laid on the grave to the accompaniment of a second chorale. An address of thanks was -delivered on behalf of the city by Oberbuergermeister Doetsch, and the +delivered on behalf of the city by Oberbürgermeister Doetsch, and the singing of a third chorale, with the placing of more wreaths, brought the formalities to a close. The following telegram was handed to the mayor in the course of the proceedings: @@ -7018,9 +6983,9 @@ seniors, the village schoolmasters in and around Winsen. Now the renowned master of forty-seven seeks to identify himself with the youthful spirits of the university with which he has become associated, by taking, for principal themes of his overture, student melodies loved -by him from their association with the early Goettingen years of happy +by him from their association with the early Göttingen years of happy companionship with Joachim, with Grimm, with von Meysenbug and others. -Four of these, 'Wir hatten gebauet,' 'Hoert ich sing' 'Was kommt dort,' +Four of these, 'Wir hatten gebauet,' 'Hört ich sing' 'Was kommt dort,' and the 'Gaudeamus,' are introduced in the course of the movement, which is written in regular classical form, and the composer lingers with particular affection over the third one, the song that in student @@ -7042,7 +7007,7 @@ failed to make much impression. If, however, Brahms felt any disappointment at the persevering coldness evinced towards his art in the musical metropolis of North Germany, he must have derived some consolation from the success which attended the performances of the -Academic Overture and other works conducted by him in Muenster on January +Academic Overture and other works conducted by him in Münster on January 22 and in Crefeld on the 25th, and by the warm welcome which awaited him in each of the Dutch cities--Amsterdam, the Hague, Haarlem--which he visited in the course of the same month. Holland, distinguished @@ -7069,31 +7034,31 @@ again in the month of February, after a long interval of years that had been big with consequence, and not only to the younger musician; since the triumph of Wagner's art must for ever be associated with the name of its first generous protagonist. The two men were brought together by the -occasion of a concert given in Budapest by Hans von Buelow, who, on -arriving at the Hotel Ungaria, found Brahms staying there, probably by +occasion of a concert given in Budapest by Hans von Bülow, who, on +arriving at the Hôtel Ungaria, found Brahms staying there, probably by preconcerted arrangement. - 'Tres cher unique,' writes Liszt to Buelow on February 13; 'I have + 'Très cher unique,' writes Liszt to Bülow on February 13; 'I have taken a slight cold, and in order not to spoil the day and evening of to-morrow, must retire early to-night. 'Pray express my affectionate thanks to Brahms, and convey to him - the invitation of Madame La Baronne Eoetoos to luncheon to-morrow at + the invitation of Madame La Baronne Eötoos to luncheon to-morrow at 1 o'clock without ennui or vexation. Quite the contrary. I shall - arrive at the Hotel Ungaria at a quarter before one in order to + arrive at the Hôtel Ungaria at a quarter before one in order to conduct you to Her Excellency's house.' -It no doubt afforded genuine satisfaction to the warm-hearted von Buelow +It no doubt afforded genuine satisfaction to the warm-hearted von Bülow to place his two friends on a passing footing of sociability. He had already begun, in his new position as capellmeister to Duke George of Saxe-Meiningen, to which he had been appointed the previous year, to use the increased influence at his command in the interests of our master's art, and before the close of this his first season of activity in the Thuringian capital, Brahms' first and second symphonies and other works -had been performed under Buelow's direction before a highly sympathetic +had been performed under Bülow's direction before a highly sympathetic audience at the concerts of the court orchestra. -The two Overtures, and 'Naenie,' to which we have yet to refer in detail, +The two Overtures, and 'Nänie,' to which we have yet to refer in detail, were published in the course of 1881.[64] [61] First published with others by Hanslick in the _Neue Freie Presse_ @@ -7121,7 +7086,7 @@ Musicians,' is in strict accord. 1881-1885 Second Pianoforte Concerto--First visit to the ducal castle of - Meiningen--'Naenie'--Frau Henriette Feuerbach--Hans von Buelow in + Meiningen--'Nänie'--Frau Henriette Feuerbach--Hans von Bülow in Leipzig--Brahms' friends in Vienna--Dr. and Frau Fellinger--Pianoforte Trio in C major--First String Quintet--The 'Parzenlied'--Third Symphony. @@ -7130,15 +7095,15 @@ Musicians,' is in strict accord. A holiday taken with Billroth in Sicily in the early spring was succeeded by Brahms' removal to summer quarters, chosen this year at Pressbaum, near Vienna. Here he was occupied with the composition of -Schiller's 'Naenie,' to which Feuerbach's death had moved him, and of a +Schiller's 'Nänie,' to which Feuerbach's death had moved him, and of a second concerto for pianoforte and orchestra in B flat. The manuscripts -of 'Naenie' and of portions of the concerto were soon lent to Billroth, +of 'Nänie' and of portions of the concerto were soon lent to Billroth, the concerto movements being handed to him with the words, 'A few little pianoforte pieces.' 'It is always a delight to me,' writes Billroth, 'when Brahms, after paying me a short visit, during which we have talked of - indifferent things, takes a roll out of his paletot pocket and says + indifferent things, takes a roll out of his paletôt pocket and says casually "Look at that and write me what you think of it."' The composer was pleasantly disturbed in August from his quietly busy @@ -7158,7 +7123,7 @@ describes his meeting with the friend he had not met for three years: surprise of seeing this Jupiter head that a question burst from me as to the reason of the alteration. "One is taken for an actor or a priest if one is clean shaven," answered Brahms, complacently - stroking the flowing beard. He now had a naive satisfaction in his + stroking the flowing beard. He now had a naïve satisfaction in his own appearance, and smilingly mentioned that his photograph with beard had been used in the Velhagen and Clasing school book edition to illustrate the Caucasian type.... The opera project was not @@ -7174,12 +7139,12 @@ allowed the business of engraving to proceed without delay. The new Pianoforte Concerto was played by the composer in Stuttgart on November 22 (Court Capellmeister Seyfrix) first time; in Meiningen on -the 27th; Zuerich, Breslau, Vienna (Philharmonic), respectively December +the 27th; Zürich, Breslau, Vienna (Philharmonic), respectively December 6, 20, 26; Leipzig, Hamburg (Philharmonic), Berlin (Meiningen -orchestra), Kiel, Bremen, Hamburg (Meiningen orchestra), Muenster, +orchestra), Kiel, Bremen, Hamburg (Meiningen orchestra), Münster, Utrecht, in January, and Frankfurt in February, 1882. The work was received with immense enthusiasm throughout the tour, excepting at -Leipzig, where it achieved only a _succes d'estime_. +Leipzig, where it achieved only a _succès d'estime_. During his visit to Meiningen, Brahms was the guest of the reigning Duke George and his consort, the Baroness von Heldburg. Three fine rooms _en @@ -7189,7 +7154,7 @@ Duke's fine Bechstein pianofortes had been placed. The apartment, having direct access to the castle grounds, afforded the composer easy opportunity to indulge in his favourite recreation of walking. -Buelow had left nothing undone that could contribute eclat to his +Bülow had left nothing undone that could contribute éclat to his friend's first public appearance in Meiningen, which he heralded a few days beforehand by giving a performance of the German Requiem at an extra concert of the court orchestra. The concert-hall was completely @@ -7201,7 +7166,7 @@ first glimpse of the composer as he advanced to the platform to play the solo of the new Pianoforte Concerto in B flat caused an outburst of welcome which made it impossible for him to take his seat immediately, and the enthusiasm, growing with each movement, reached its climax at -the end. 'Brahms and Buelow transported the audience to a state of +the end. 'Brahms and Bülow transported the audience to a state of exaltation,' wrote the critic next day. The Haydn Variations closed the first part of the concert; the second part, consisting of the C minor Symphony and the Academic Overture, was conducted by the composer. On @@ -7241,8 +7206,8 @@ pleasure, and the harmless jokes and playful sayings in which he continued to find a childlike satisfaction to the end of his life are remembered by these friends with affection and regret. -The concert at Zuerich on December 6, the programme of which included the -first performance of 'Naenie,' made an extraordinary impression, and was +The concert at Zürich on December 6, the programme of which included the +first performance of 'Nänie,' made an extraordinary impression, and was so brilliantly successful financially that, in the words of Steiner, 'the committee could not rest satisfied without giving visible and @@ -7255,7 +7220,7 @@ wrote his thanks to Hegar in the following words: 'MOST ESTEEMED FRIEND, - 'Your goblet has arrived, and the etui containing the musical + 'Your goblet has arrived, and the étui containing the musical silver angel glitters like an open altar shrine upon the piano. You cannot think how beautiful and kind it stands there, and with what pleasure I look at it! @@ -7272,7 +7237,7 @@ wrote his thanks to Hegar in the following words: 'Yours most sincerely, 'J. BRAHMS.'[66] -In his setting of 'Naenie,' dedicated to Frau Henriette Feuerbach and +In his setting of 'Nänie,' dedicated to Frau Henriette Feuerbach and performed from the manuscript at this concert, Brahms has conceived the calm fatalistic spirit of classical antiquity represented in Schiller's funeral dirge as perfectly as he has embodied in the music of the German @@ -7292,7 +7257,7 @@ Dr. Carl Neumann describes a visit paid by him to Frau Feuerbach when she was seventy-five years of age, at her house in Ansbach. He went through two rooms. - 'In the first was a grand piano on which lay Brahms' "Naenie"; in + 'In the first was a grand piano on which lay Brahms' "Nänie"; in the second, one might say, dwelt the departed. Tall green plants stood in the window recesses obscuring the light. What the mother had of her son's works hung on the walls. The coloured sketch of a @@ -7302,7 +7267,7 @@ through two rooms. altar.... 'We left this room. She sat down to the piano, at first as if to - rest; then asked if I knew Brahms' "Naenie," which, as an admirer of + rest; then asked if I knew Brahms' "Nänie," which, as an admirer of her son's art, he had dedicated to her. She gave me the music to follow and began to play it by heart.... @@ -7311,17 +7276,17 @@ through two rooms. figure, bent forward and lost in tones and memories; was it not the tragic muse herself and was she not sounding a song of fate? - 'In the spring of 1886 she once again met Brahms and heard "Naenie" + 'In the spring of 1886 she once again met Brahms and heard "Nänie" under Joachim.'[67] The want of appreciation of the new concerto shown by the audience of -the Leipzig Gewandhaus did not escape the notice of Hans von Buelow in +the Leipzig Gewandhaus did not escape the notice of Hans von Bülow in his capacity as Brahms' champion, and he carried his band to Leipzig in the middle of March to give a series of three concerts, two of them respectively devoted to Beethoven and Brahms, and the other divided between Mendelssohn and Schumann. The Brahms programme included the C minor Symphony, Haydn Variations, and the D minor Concerto played by -Buelow, the orchestra accompanying without a conductor. The applause +Bülow, the orchestra accompanying without a conductor. The applause which followed the movements of the symphony as the work proceeded was not hearty enough to satisfy the excitable capellmeister, who at the end of the third movement desired his orchestra to repeat it, and on the @@ -7357,7 +7322,7 @@ to the imagination. The first movement, on the other hand, is extraordinarily difficult to grasp as a whole, partly on account of its great length, but still more -from the ambiguity of the role assigned to the solo instrument on its +from the ambiguity of the rôle assigned to the solo instrument on its entry after the first orchestral 'tutti.' The principle to be traced in the first movements of the concertos of Mozart and Beethoven, by giving to the solo, on each entry, something of the character of a brilliant @@ -7369,11 +7334,11 @@ the instance under consideration, to have deliberately degraded the pianoforte from its legitimate position as dominant factor in its own domain. True, it enters with eight bars' quasi-improvisatory restatement of the principal theme, but it sinks immediately afterwards to occupy -the subordinate role of the answering voice in a kind of antiphonal duet +the subordinate rôle of the answering voice in a kind of antiphonal duet with the orchestra, which it imitates almost servilely, fragment by fragment, during a lengthy succession of bars. This method of treatment robs the solo, not only of its effect, but almost of its very _raison -d'etre_, and, by blurring the outline of the movement, is probably +d'être_, and, by blurring the outline of the movement, is probably chiefly answerable for the sense of fatigue, to which even Billroth confessed, that most people feel after listening to a performance of the entire work. This is not the place for a detailed discussion of the @@ -7393,10 +7358,10 @@ as established by Mozart. The Concerto in B flat, published in 1882, was dedicated by Brahms to 'his dear friend and teacher Edward Marxsen.' It was performed--probably -for the first time in England--by Charles Halle at one of the famous +for the first time in England--by Charles Hallé at one of the famous Manchester concerts, and by Heinrich Barth at a Crystal Palace Saturday concert of November, 1884. The present author played it in London -December 13, 1888, at her matinee at Messrs. Broadwood's, and on +December 13, 1888, at her matinée at Messrs. Broadwood's, and on February 14, 1891, at her private concert at the Royal Academy of Music, kindly accompanied in the composer's arrangement of the orchestral part for two pianofortes, on the first occasion by Mr. Otto Goldschmidt and @@ -7404,13 +7369,13 @@ Mr. Stephen Kemp, and on the second by Messrs. Stephen Kemp and Septimus Webbe. Frederic Lamond introduced it to the audience of the Philharmonic Society, St. James's Hall, on May 14, 1891. Since these dates the concerto has been frequently played in Great Britain by Leonard Borwick. -Fraeulein Marie Baumeyer of Vienna was the first lady to perform the +Fräulein Marie Baumeyer of Vienna was the first lady to perform the immensely difficult work. She played it in Graz in 1883, and later, in the composer's presence, at one of her concerts in Vienna. The other publications of 1882 were a book of Romances and Songs for one or for two voices, and two books of Songs for one voice. The two -Overtures and 'Naenie' were issued in 1881. +Overtures and 'Nänie' were issued in 1881. Brahms passed a considerable part of the first quarter of 1882 in Hamburg, to the joy of his friends there. He had written in good time to @@ -7443,7 +7408,7 @@ months. Billroth, who was in the neighbourhood, writes of him in August: Very deep but simple.' The journey to Italy duly took place, the proposed party of two being -enlarged to one of four by the addition of Ignaz Bruell and Simrock. +enlarged to one of four by the addition of Ignaz Brüll and Simrock. Original plans had to be modified on account of the exceptionally wet season, and the chief places visited were Vicenza, Padua, and Venice. @@ -7460,7 +7425,7 @@ musicians, Carl Ferdinand Pohl, author of the standard Life of Mozart, and, since 1866, archivar to the Gesellschaft, was one of his dearest friends. With the leading professors of the conservatoire his relations continued very cordial, and amongst the younger musicians to whom, in -addition to his early allies, Goldmark, Gaensbacher and Epstein, he +addition to his early allies, Goldmark, Gänsbacher and Epstein, he extended his friendly regard, may be mentioned Anton Door and Robert Fuchs. The feeling of warm friendship existing between Brahms and Johann Strauss has been commemorated in several well-known anecdotes. The @@ -7472,12 +7437,12 @@ In the first place, they were friends of Frau Schumann and her daughters, and as such had an instant claim on his courtesy, which he acknowledged by calling on them as soon as possible after their arrival. In the second, his interest was awakened by the fact that Frau -Dr. Fellinger was the daughter of Frau Professor Lang-Koestlin, the +Dr. Fellinger was the daughter of Frau Professor Lang-Köstlin, the gifted Josephine Lang, whose attractive personality and talent for composition made a strong impression upon Mendelssohn when he was a youth of twenty-one and some six years the lady's senior. The story of -Josephine, who at the age of twenty-six married Professor Koestlin of -Tuebingen, is given in Hiller's 'Tonleben,' and Mendelssohn's +Josephine, who at the age of twenty-six married Professor Köstlin of +Tübingen, is given in Hiller's 'Tonleben,' and Mendelssohn's congratulations to her bridegroom-elect may be read in the second volume of the 'Letters.' The talent for art which had come to her as a family inheritance was transmitted to her daughter, though with a difference. @@ -7502,19 +7467,19 @@ Early copies of the trio and quintet were sent out, however, and the works were publicly performed from them in December, 1882. An interesting entry in Frau Schumann's diary says: - 'I had invited Koning and Mueller to come and try Brahms' new trio + 'I had invited Koning and Müller to come and try Brahms' new trio with me on Thursday 21st [December]. Who should surprise us as we were playing it--he himself! He came from Strassburg and means to stay with us for Christmas. I played the trio first and he repeated it.' Both works were performed on December 29 at a Museum chamber music -concert--the Quintet by the Heermann-Mueller party, the Trio by Brahms, -Heermann, and Mueller. +concert--the Quintet by the Heermann-Müller party, the Trio by Brahms, +Heermann, and Müller. Amongst the early performances of the Trio were those on January 17 and 22 respectively in Berlin (Trio Concerts: Barth, de Ahna, Hausmann) and -London (Monday Popular Concerts: Halle, Madame Neruda, Piatti), and at +London (Monday Popular Concerts: Hallé, Madame Néruda, Piatti), and at Hellmesberger's in Vienna on March 15. The work has not become one of the most generally familiar of the @@ -7531,7 +7496,7 @@ easy to follow. As one of its special features may be mentioned the combination of the usual two middle movements in the second. It was given in Hamburg on the 22nd and in Berlin on the 23rd of January, respectively by Bargheer and Joachim and their colleagues (it should be -noted that Hausmann had at this time succeeded Mueller as the +noted that Hausmann had at this time succeeded Müller as the violoncellist of the Joachim Quartet), at Hellmesberger's on February 15, and at the Monday Popular, London, of March 5. @@ -7542,7 +7507,7 @@ the New Year by general desire. Similar results followed its performance in other towns, of which Strassburg and Crefeld should be specially mentioned. The programme of the Crefeld concert included the fifth movement of the Requiem. 'What is your _tempo_?' Brahms inquired, on -the morning of the rehearsal, of Fraeulein Antonia Kufferath, who was to +the morning of the rehearsal, of Fräulein Antonia Kufferath, who was to sing the solo. The lady, not taking the question seriously from the composer of the music, waived a reply. 'No, I mean it; you have to hold out the long notes. Well, we shall understand each other,' he added; @@ -7569,15 +7534,15 @@ audience, and the work has never become a prime favourite in the Austrian Kaiserstadt. The song is set for six-part chorus with orchestra, in plainer harmonic masses and with less employment of imitative counterpoint than we usually find in the works of Brahms, who -has accommodated his music here, as in 'Naenie,' to the classical spirit +has accommodated his music here, as in 'Nänie,' to the classical spirit of the text. A singular deviation, however, which occurs in the course of the setting, from the uncompromising severity of the words, furnishes a remarkable illustration of the composer's unconquerable idealism. Comment was made in its place on the beautiful device by which he has -sought to relieve the dark mood of Hoelderlin's 'Song of Destiny'--the +sought to relieve the dark mood of Hölderlin's 'Song of Destiny'--the addition of an instrumental postlude which breathes forth a message of tender consolation that the poet could hardly have rendered in words. In -Schiller's 'Naenie' the lament, with all its calm, gives expression to a +Schiller's 'Nänie' the lament, with all its calm, gives expression to a sentiment of compassionate sorrow that is perfectly reproduced in the master's music. Goethe's Fates, however, in their measured recitation of the gods' relentless cruelty, would have seemed to offer no possible @@ -7589,7 +7554,7 @@ heart have been found in the penultimate stanza of their song: Their favouring glances Entire generations, And heed not in children - The once so beloved + The once so belovèd And still speaking features Of distant forefathers.' @@ -7616,10 +7581,10 @@ that of the musician was grounded. The Parzenlied was dedicated to 'His Highness George, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen,' and was included in a Brahms programme performed in Meiningen on April 2 to celebrate the Duke's birthday. The complete -breakdown of Buelow's health necessitated his temporary retirement from +breakdown of Bülow's health necessitated his temporary retirement from his conductor's duties, which were divided on this occasion between -Brahms and Court Capellmeister Franz Mannstaedt, appointed to assist -Buelow. Returning by a circuitous route to Vienna after a few days at the +Brahms and Court Capellmeister Franz Mannstädt, appointed to assist +Bülow. Returning by a circuitous route to Vienna after a few days at the ducal castle, Brahms paid a short visit to Hamburg to take part in another Brahms programme arranged by the talented young conductor of the Cecilia Society, Julius Spengel. This was the first of several occasions @@ -7643,7 +7608,7 @@ related to the author by Brahms' intimate associates. Samples of another variety should not, however, be omitted. A private performance of the new symphony, this time arranged for two -pianofortes, was given as usual at Ehrbar's by Brahms and Bruell, and +pianofortes, was given as usual at Ehrbar's by Brahms and Brüll, and aroused immense expectations for the future of the work. Amongst the listeners was a musician who, not having hitherto allowed himself to be suspected of a partiality for the master's art, expressed his @@ -7718,11 +7683,11 @@ The symphony was heard for the second time, therefore, on January 4 under Joachim at Berlin, and was enthusiastically received by all sections of the public and press. It was given again three times during the same month in the German imperial capital under the composer's -baton. +bâton. Detailed description of the triumphant progress of the new work from town to town is no longer necessary. The composer was overwhelmed with -invitations to conduct it from the manuscript, and Buelow, convalescent +invitations to conduct it from the manuscript, and Bülow, convalescent from his illness, and determined not to be outdone in enthusiasm, placed it twice, as second and fourth numbers, in a Meiningen programme of five works. On publication, it was performed in all the chief music-loving @@ -7764,7 +7729,7 @@ poems of a melancholy tendency at this time. WITH FORTY YEARS. - BY FRIEDRICH RUeCKERT (1788-1866). + BY FRIEDRICH RÃœCKERT (1788-1866). With forty years we've gained the mountain's summit, We stand awhile and look behind; @@ -7782,14 +7747,14 @@ poems of a melancholy tendency at this time. With the knowledge we have gained of the master's habit of producing his large works in couples, we are prepared to find him employed this summer on the composition of a fourth symphony. Avoiding a long journey, he -settled down to his work at Muerz Zuschlag in Styria, not far from the +settled down to his work at Mürz Zuschlag in Styria, not far from the highest ridge of the Semmering. Hearing soon after his arrival there that his old friend Misi Reinthaler, now grown up into a young lady, was leaving home under her mother's care to go through a course of treatment under a famous Vienna specialist, he wrote to place his rooms in Carlsgasse at Frau Reinthaler's disposal. The offer was not accepted, but when the invalid was sufficiently convalescent, he insisted that the -two ladies should come for a few days as his guests to Muerz Zuschlag, +two ladies should come for a few days as his guests to Mürz Zuschlag, where he took rooms for them near his own lodgings. He went over to see them also at Vienna, and spent the greater part of a morning showing them his valuable collection of autographs and other treasures. 'Yes, @@ -7802,7 +7767,7 @@ autograph signature 'Joh. Brahms in April 1872,' written at the bottom of one of the pages, constitute a unique triplet. The sheet now belongs to the Gesellschaft library, and is framed within glass. -The society of Hanslick, who came with his wife to stay near Muerz +The society of Hanslick, who came with his wife to stay near Mürz Zuschlag for part of the summer, was very acceptable to Brahms. The departure of his friends at the close of the season, in the company of some mutual Vienna acquaintances, incited the composer to an act of @@ -7859,7 +7824,7 @@ affectionate inscription. CHAPTER XX 1885-1888 - Vienna Tonkuenstlerverein--Fourth Symphony--Hugo Wolf--Brahms at + 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 Hausmann--Frau Celestine Truxa--Double Concerto--Marxsen's death--Eugen d'Albert--The Gipsy @@ -7871,8 +7836,8 @@ affectionate inscription. The early part of the year 1885 offers for record no event of unusual interest to the reader. The greater portion of it was spent by Brahms in his customary routine in Vienna. He was generally to be seen at the -weekly meetings of the Tonkuenstlerverein, a musicians' club founded by -Epstein, Gaensbacher, and others, of which the master had consented to be +weekly meetings of the Tonkünstlerverein, a musicians' club founded by +Epstein, Gänsbacher, and others, of which the master had consented to be named honorary life-president. The Monday evening proceedings included a short musical programme, sometimes followed by an informal supper. Brahms did not usually sit in the music-room, but would remain in a @@ -7882,7 +7847,7 @@ sex. His arrival always became known at once to the assembled company, mouth. His old love of open-air exercise had not diminished with increasing years, and the Sunday custom of a long walk in the country was still kept up. A few friends used to meet in the morning outside the -Cafe Bauer, opposite the Opera House, and, taking train or tram to the +Café Bauer, opposite the Opera House, and, taking train or tram to the outskirts of the city, would thence proceed on foot, returning in the late afternoon. Brahms, nearly always in a good humour on these occasions, was generally soon ahead of his companions, or leading the @@ -7900,7 +7865,7 @@ join us one day, Herr Doctor? Next Sunday, perhaps?' asked Brahms. 'I!' exclaimed the other. 'Saul among the prophets?' 'Na, so you give yourself royal airs!' instantly rejoined the master. -The fourth symphony was completed during the summer at Muerz Zuschlag, +The fourth symphony was completed during the summer at Mürz Zuschlag, where Brahms this year had the advantage of Dr. and Frau Fellinger's society, and--indispensable for his complete enjoyment of a home circle--that of their children. Returning one afternoon from a walk, he @@ -7915,7 +7880,7 @@ composer's apartments. Brahms paid a neighbourly call, in the course of the summer, on the author Rosegger, who was living in his small country house at Krieglach -near Muerz Zuschlag, and tasted the unusual experience of a repulse. +near Mürz Zuschlag, and tasted the unusual experience of a repulse. Absorbed in work at the moment when his servant announced 'a strange gentleman,' Rosegger, without glancing at the card placed beside him, desired his visitor to 'sit down for a moment.' Conscious only of the @@ -7940,9 +7905,9 @@ performances of the Symphony in E minor, fell to the Meiningen orchestra. The work was announced for the third subscription concert of the season 1885-86, and shortly beforehand the score and parts of the third and fourth movements were sent by the composer to Meiningen for -correction at a preliminary rehearsal under Buelow. Three listeners were, -by Buelow's invitation, present on the occasion--the Landgraf of Hesse; -Richard Strauss, the now famous composer, who had succeeded Mannstaedt as +correction at a preliminary rehearsal under Bülow. Three listeners were, +by Bülow's invitation, present on the occasion--the Landgraf of Hesse; +Richard Strauss, the now famous composer, who had succeeded Mannstädt as second conductor of the Meiningen orchestra; and Frederic Lamond. The lapse of another day or so brought Brahms himself with the first and second movements, and the first public performance of the work took @@ -7954,17 +7919,17 @@ the audience to obtain a repetition of the third movement, and the close of the work was followed by the emphatic demonstration incident to a great success. -The work was repeated under Buelow's direction at the following Meiningen +The work was repeated under Bülow's direction at the following Meiningen concert of November 1, and was conducted by the composer throughout a -three weeks' tour on which he started with Buelow and his orchestra +three weeks' tour on which he started with Bülow and his orchestra immediately afterwards, and which included the towns Siegen, Dortmund, -Essen, Elberfeld, Duesseldorf, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam, the Hague, +Essen, Elberfeld, Düsseldorf, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam, the Hague, Arnheim, Crefeld, Bonn, and Cologne. A performance at Wiesbaden followed, and the work was heard for the first time in Vienna at the Philharmonic concert of January 17, 1886, under Richter. This occasion -was celebrated by a dinner given by Billroth at the Hotel Sacher, the +was celebrated by a dinner given by Billroth at the Hôtel Sacher, the guests invited to meet the composer being Richter, Hanslick, Goldmark, -Faber, Door, Epstein, Ehrbar, Fuchs, Kalbeck, and Doempke. +Faber, Door, Epstein, Ehrbar, Fuchs, Kalbeck, and Dömpke. A new and important work by Brahms could hardly fail to obtain a warm reception in Vienna at a period when the composer could look back to @@ -7980,12 +7945,12 @@ once obtained some measure of real appreciation in Leipzig, where the first had been far more successful than the second and third. It was performed under the composer at the Gewandhaus concert of February 18. The account given of the occasion by the _Leipziger Nachrichten_ is, -perhaps, the more satisfactory since our old friend Doerffel, who might +perhaps, the more satisfactory since our old friend Dörffel, who might possibly have been suspected of partiality, had long since retired from -the staff of the journal. Bernhard Voegl, his second successor, says: +the staff of the journal. Bernhard Vögl, his second successor, says: '... The reception must, we think, have made amends to Brahms for - former ones, which, in Buelow's opinion, were too cool. After each + former ones, which, in Bülow's opinion, were too cool. After each movement the hall resounded with tumultuous and long-continued applause, and, at the conclusion of the work, the composer was repeatedly called forward.... The finale is certainly the most @@ -8423,7 +8388,7 @@ of the German master. Amongst the friends and acquaintances whom the composer met at Thun during his second and third summers there were the Landgraf of Hesse, -Hanslick, Gottfried Keller, Professor Baechthold, Hermine Spiess and her +Hanslick, Gottfried Keller, Professor Bächthold, Hermine Spiess and her sister, Gustav Wendt, the Hegars, Max Kalbeck, Steiner, Claus Groth, etc. One day, as he had started for a walk, he was stopped by a stranger, who asked if he knew where Dr. Brahms lived. 'He lives there,' @@ -8495,20 +8460,20 @@ Concerto in B flat. Four more performances from the manuscript of the double concerto of interest in our narrative remain to be chronicled--those of the Leipzig Gewandhaus, under Brahms, on January 1, 1888; of the Berlin Philharmonic -Society, under Buelow, of February 6; and of the London Symphony +Society, under Bülow, of February 6; and of the London Symphony Concerts, under Henschel, on February 15 and 21. The work, published in time for the autumn season, was given in Vienna at the Philharmonic concert of December 23 under Richter. On all these occasions the solos were played, as before, by Joachim and Hausmann. -Buelow, having at this time resigned his post at Meiningen, had entered +Bülow, having at this time resigned his post at Meiningen, had entered on a period of activity as conductor in some of the northern cities of Germany, and particularly in Hamburg and Berlin. His future programmes, in which our master's works were well represented, though not with the conspicuous prominence that had been possible at Meiningen, do not fall within the scope of these pages, since, with the mention of the double concerto, the enumeration of Brahms' orchestral works is complete. -Buelow's successor at Meiningen, Court Capellmeister Fritz Steinbach, +Bülow's successor at Meiningen, Court Capellmeister Fritz Steinbach, carried on the traditions and preferences of the little Thuringian capital as he found them, until his removal to Cologne a year or two ago, and has become especially appreciated as a conductor of the works @@ -8544,9 +8509,9 @@ handwriting: 'To him for whom it was written.' Widely contrasted in every respect was the other new work of 1887, introduced to the private circle of Vienna musicians at the last meeting -for the season of the Tonkuenstlerverein in April, 1888. The eleven +for the season of the Tonkünstlerverein in April, 1888. The eleven four-part 'Gipsy Songs,' published in the course of the year as -Op. 103, were sung from the manuscript by Fraulein Walter, Frau +Op. 103, were sung from the manuscript by Frãulein Walter, Frau Gomperz-Bettelheim, Gustav Walter, and Weiglein of the imperial opera, to the composer's accompaniment. Brahms obtained the texts of this characteristic and attractive work from a collection of twenty-five @@ -8569,7 +8534,7 @@ Lena Little, and Mr. Shakespeare, with Miss Fanny Davies as pianist. They were repeated at the Saturday Popular of December 1, and again on Monday and Saturday, December 22 and 28. The first public performance in Vienna--by the executants who had already given the work privately--took -place at Walter's concert in the Boersendorfer Hall on January 18, 1889. +place at Walter's concert in the Börsendorfer Hall on January 18, 1889. The Gipsy Songs had an immediate widespread, and enormous success, and were soon heard in all parts of the musical world. They were sung in @@ -8592,7 +8557,7 @@ occasion of the above-recorded performance of the new double concerto. to Berlin,' says Dr. Jenner. 'There I was present for the first time at a Joachim Quartet evening. Immediately after the concert we travelled with the Quartet to Leipzig, arriving in the middle of - the night at the Hotel Hauffe. Never shall I forget the feeling + the night at the Hôtel Hauffe. Never shall I forget the feeling that came over me as I read in the visitors' list, "Johannes Brahms from Vienna." He had already retired. By a strange chance I was shown into the room next his and as I entered it a sound of healthy @@ -8606,7 +8571,7 @@ occasion of the above-recorded performance of the new double concerto. short, direct question, so that I was soon convinced of his good-nature and felt unlimited confidence in him.... - 'It was past 3 o'clock when we returned that night to the Hotel + 'It was past 3 o'clock when we returned that night to the Hôtel Hauffe. How delighted but also astonished I was when Brahms, as he said good-night, announced that he would expect me in his room at 7 o'clock in the morning to speak to me about my compositions. I @@ -8621,7 +8586,7 @@ occasion of the above-recorded performance of the new double concerto. beforehand. After a few introductory remarks, in which he said that he had formed a generally favourable impression of my compositions, he gave me back the accompanied chorus with the words "Pity for the - beautiful little poem." It was Claus Groth's "Wenn ein mueder Leib." + beautiful little poem." It was Claus Groth's "Wenn ein müder Leib." The _a capella_ choruses met with the same fate; I received them back with the remark "Such things are very difficult to make...."' @@ -8706,7 +8671,7 @@ bidden guest, not only to appreciate, but to show appreciation, of the hospitality of his host and hostess. 'There are people,' he used to say, 'who are afraid of showing that they like a good dinner.' Brahms was certainly not one of these. He was prepared to do ample justice to the -recherche cookery and excellent wines with which his friends liked to +recherché cookery and excellent wines with which his friends liked to regale him, but he was at no period of his life either a glutton or a wine-bibber, and, indeed, never varied from the abstemious habits which the early circumstances of his life had made incumbent on him as a young @@ -8717,8 +8682,8 @@ given by Ehrbar on, or as near as possible to, May 7, in honour of the master's birthday. About twelve or sixteen people were invited, amongst whom the Hanslicks and Billroth and his daughter were regularly included. The luncheon hour was twelve o'clock, and the menu, which -never varied, consisted of oysters, caviare, cold meat, then the _piece -de resistance_, asparagus, which was always provided in the proportion +never varied, consisted of oysters, caviare, cold meat, then the _pièce +de résistance_, asparagus, which was always provided in the proportion of two bundles to each person. This was followed by cheese and dessert, and there was a free flow of fine champagne. @@ -8737,14 +8702,14 @@ The third Sonata for pianoforte and violin, in D minor, was composed during the summer, and was played for the first time in public from the manuscript by Brahms and Joachim at Joachim's Vienna concert of February 13, 1889. It was published in the spring, with Brahms' dedication to -'his friend Hans von Buelow,' and was performed immediately afterwards in +'his friend Hans von Bülow,' and was performed immediately afterwards in London by Miss Fanny Davies and Ludwig Straus at Miss Davies' concert of May 7. The three sonatas for pianoforte and violin were played one -summer's day at Gmuenden, by Brahms and Joachim, before the Queen and +summer's day at Gmünden, by Brahms and Joachim, before the Queen and royal family of Hanover, an incident which carries the memory back to the year 1853, when Johannes, having come safely through the first stages of his concert-journey and taken Joachim's heart by storm, -appeared with Remenyi for the first time before King George and his +appeared with Reményi for the first time before King George and his circle at Hanover. The other publications of 1889 were a book of five Songs for mixed @@ -8780,7 +8745,7 @@ tonic seventh and minor thirteenth, all chromatic). 1889-1895 Hamburg honorary citizenship--Christmas at Dr. Fellinger's--Second - String Quintet--Muehlfeld--Clarinet Quintet and Trio--Last journey + String Quintet--Mühlfeld--Clarinet Quintet and Trio--Last journey to Italy--Sixtieth birthday--Pianoforte Pieces--Billroth's death--Brahms' collection of German Folk-songs--Life at Ischl--Clarinet Sonatas--Frau Schumann, Brahms, and Joachim @@ -8804,21 +8769,21 @@ whilst several had villas for summer residence in the immediate neighbourhood. Johann Strauss always lived at Ischl during the summer, the Billroths' delightfully situated home at St. Gilgen could be reached by train or the lake boat service in an hour, whilst the house and -grounds of Herr and Frau Victor von Miller zu Aichholz at Gmuenden, and -Goldmark's rooms, also at Gmuenden, were not much further off, and so on +grounds of Herr and Frau Victor von Miller zu Aichholz at Gmünden, and +Goldmark's rooms, also at Gmünden, were not much further off, and so on with other friends. 'I have heard by chance,' writes Billroth from St. Gilgen to Brahms at Ischl on June 16, 'that Mandyczewski and Rottenberg are with you ... make up your mind quickly therefore and come over with them to - St. Gilgen and invite Bruell or Goldmark also in my name....' + St. Gilgen and invite Brüll or Goldmark also in my name....' -Brahms always dined when at Ischl in the 'Keller' of the Hotel +Brahms always dined when at Ischl in the 'Keller' of the Hôtel Elisabeth, which was reached by a flight of steps leading downwards from the street, and is thus described by Billroth: 'I passed a couple of pleasant hours with Brahms at Ischl. We dined - in a damp, underground room belonging to the Hotel Elisabeth. The + in a damp, underground room belonging to the Hôtel Elisabeth. The same dishes are served there as in the better class dining-room but at rather cheaper prices; it is very cool in the summer and no toilet is required; everything as if made for Brahms.' @@ -8842,15 +8807,15 @@ fashion that he seems to have regretted when he saw his words in print. In acknowledgment of the honour bestowed on him, Brahms composed three eight-part choruses _a capella_, which he entitled 'Fest and -Gedenksprueche' (Festival and Commemoration Sayings) and dedicated to the -mayor of Hamburg, Herr Oberbuergermeister Dr. Petersen. Patriotic +Gedenksprüche' (Festival and Commemoration Sayings) and dedicated to the +mayor of Hamburg, Herr Oberbürgermeister Dr. Petersen. Patriotic remembrances and hopes were vividly present to his mind as he composed them, and the work is to be accepted as a second great musical memorial and glorification of the events of 1870-71. The texts are again selected from the Bible: from Deuteronomy, the Psalms, and the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke. The choruses were studied by the Cecilia Society, and performed under Spengel at the first of three festival concerts -arranged by Buelow for the opening of the Hamburg Industrial Exhibition. +arranged by Bülow for the opening of the Hamburg Industrial Exhibition. Sittard calls them 'a splendid musical gift,' and places them amongst the best and finest of the composer's works. @@ -8870,13 +8835,13 @@ obliged to come forward to acknowledge the long-continued plaudits which followed its conclusion. It was the last time that he stood on a concert platform of his native city. -Spengel, who witnessed with Buelow the presentation of the citizens' +Spengel, who witnessed with Bülow the presentation of the citizens' document, which took place at Dr. Petersen's house, relates that Brahms gave warm verbal expression to the deep feeling animating the written acknowledgment by which he had supplemented his telegram of thanks. This letter ran as follows:[74] - /* 'YOUR MAGNIFICENCE 'MOST HONOURABLE HERR BUeRGERMEISTER */ + /* 'YOUR MAGNIFICENCE 'MOST HONOURABLE HERR BÃœRGERMEISTER */ 'I feel with my whole heart the need to add a few words to my hasty, short telegram. Kindly permit me again to assure your @@ -8904,7 +8869,7 @@ obliged to reply prettily,' he wrote to Hanslick.[75] Another of the distinctions bestowed upon Brahms late in his career, which gave him, as a German musician, extraordinary pleasure, was that -of his election as foreign member of the Academie francaise. He +of his election as foreign member of the Académie française. He endeavoured to write his letter of acknowledgment in French, but, not being able to satisfy himself, was obliged to be content with expressing his gratification in his own language. @@ -9041,7 +9006,7 @@ course her two boys were always remembered by the master, and his gifts to them, generally books, were found punctually on the table at the hour appointed for the commencement of the festivity. -The publications of the year 1890 were the 'Fest und Gedenksprueche,' as +The publications of the year 1890 were the 'Fest und Gedenksprüche,' as Op. 109, and three Motets for four and eight part Chorus _a capella_, Op. 110. @@ -9052,8 +9017,8 @@ shall we have next?' said Joachim to Brahms in the course of supper; 'a quintet; we have one, a very fine one; we will have another.' A second string quintet, with two violas, composed during the summer at Ischl, was the next work produced by Brahms, and was heard for the first time -in public from the manuscript in Vienna at the Rose Quartet concert of -November 11 (Rose, Bachrich, Hummer, Jenek, and Siebert). An anecdote +in public from the manuscript in Vienna at the Rosé Quartet concert of +November 11 (Rosé, Bachrich, Hummer, Jenek, and Siebert). An anecdote which appears to the author worth preserving, as expressive of Brahms' appreciation of his friend's incomparable playing, may find a place here. At a period when the two men had not met for a couple of years an @@ -9131,21 +9096,21 @@ enjoyment was the greater since the Duke, to whom the master had often spoken of Widmann, had invited this gentleman to meet his friend. Several delightful details of the time are related by Widmann. For us, however, the fact of particular interest is that it was now that Brahms' -admiration of the performances of the clarinettist Muehlfeld, of the +admiration of the performances of the clarinettist Mühlfeld, of the Meiningen orchestra, culminated in the determination to write for his -instrument. Muehlfeld had gained particular reputation as a soloist by +instrument. Mühlfeld had gained particular reputation as a soloist by his performances of Weber, whose Concertino for clarinet and orchestra had been introduced by him at Meiningen on December 25, 1886, the hundredth anniversary of the composer's birth. Our master, who since -that date had had many opportunities of listening to Muehlfeld's +that date had had many opportunities of listening to Mühlfeld's wonderful tone and execution, now asked for a private recital with only himself as audience, in the course of which the clarinettist played to -him one piece after another from his repertoire, and discussed his +him one piece after another from his répertoire, and discussed his instrument with him. The sequel was the composition by Brahms, during his annual residence at Ischl, of a trio for pianoforte, clarinet, and violoncello and a quintet for clarinet and strings. These works were performed from the manuscripts before the ducal circle at Meiningen -Castle on November 24 of the same year, the Trio by Brahms, Muehlfeld, +Castle on November 24 of the same year, the Trio by Brahms, Mühlfeld, and Hausmann, the Quintet by the same musicians, Joachim, and two members of the Meiningen orchestra. @@ -9184,14 +9149,14 @@ works were favourably noticed by the Berlin press, which waxed enthusiastic over the quintet, and especially the adagio. The trio was played in Vienna the same month at a Hellmesberger concert; -the quintet on January 5, 1892, by the Rose Quartet party, with the +the quintet on January 5, 1892, by the Rosé Quartet party, with the clarinettist Steiner. Both works were heard again in the Austrian capital a fortnight later at a concert given there by the Joachim -Quartet party, with the co-operation of Brahms and Muehlfeld. The quintet +Quartet party, with the co-operation of Brahms and Mühlfeld. The quintet was introduced to a London audience at the Monday Popular concert of -March 28 by Muehlfeld, Joachim, Ries, Straus, and Piatti, and repeated at +March 28 by Mühlfeld, Joachim, Ries, Straus, and Piatti, and repeated at the Saturday concert of April 2, when the trio was also played by Miss -Fanny Davies, Muehlfeld, and Piatti. +Fanny Davies, Mühlfeld, and Piatti. The Clarinet Trio appears to us one of the least convincing of Brahms' works, and this in spite of the fact that it bears its composer's name @@ -9218,7 +9183,7 @@ performed, are of surprisingly attractive effect. A fancy that suggested itself to one of the Berlin critics, as to the position assigned in this movement to the clarinet, seems to have commended itself to Brahms, who was ever afterwards in the habit of introducing the distinguished artist -for whom it was written, to intimate friends, as 'Fraeulein von Muehlfeld, +for whom it was written, to intimate friends, as 'Fräulein von Mühlfeld, meine Primadonna.' In 1891 were published the String Quintet in G, Op. 111; six Vocal @@ -9231,7 +9196,7 @@ The Clarinet Trio and Quintet and three books of short Pianoforte Pieces, Op. 116, Nos. 1 and 2, and Op. 117, appeared in 1892. Brahms departed in good time in the spring of 1893 for what was to be -his last holiday in the south, meeting Widmann and two Zuerich friends +his last holiday in the south, meeting Widmann and two Zürich friends (Friedrich Hegar and Robert Freund) in Milan and proceeding with them to Sicily, whose scenery and general romantic charm had made an indelible impression on his mind when he had travelled in the country with @@ -9243,7 +9208,7 @@ congratulatory functions in which he would be asked to take part. To his mind, such a predicament left but one course open to him--flight; and for this he had made arrangement months beforehand. As early as the year 1892 he had refused Hegar's invitation to celebrate his birthday by some -festival performances at Zuerich in the following terms: +festival performances at Zürich in the following terms: 'VIENNA, _September 29th, 1892_. @@ -9272,7 +9237,7 @@ to be present this year, but sent his kindest greetings to all friends who should assemble on the occasion. Instead of postponing the party on account of this disappointment, Herr Ehrbar decided not only to gather the old friends about him as usual, but to hold the festivity at the -Hotel Sacher, and to invite some additional guests to drink the health +Hôtel Sacher, and to invite some additional guests to drink the health of the absent composer, bringing up the number to about thirty. Widmann, who had an accident during the return journey which injured his @@ -9299,14 +9264,14 @@ surgeon's care, has thus described how Brahms spent May 7: It was rumoured in Vienna, nevertheless, that Brahms was present at Herr Ehrbar's luncheon; that he was seen in the Augustinestrasse in the evening of the 6th; that he astonished his friends by joining them at -the Hotel Sacher at twelve o'clock on the 7th, just as they were about +the Hôtel Sacher at twelve o'clock on the 7th, just as they were about to sit down to table; and that he vanished from the city immediately after the festivity, to come back no more until the usual time of his return in October. The sixtieth birthday of its honorary president was celebrated by a special meeting and musical performance in the club-rooms of the -Tonkuenstlerverein, and the Gesellschaft had a gold medal cast in the +Tonkünstlerverein, and the Gesellschaft had a gold medal cast in the master's honour. A note to Frau Caroline, written in June from Ischl, headed by a @@ -9358,8 +9323,8 @@ chit-chat where it had been left. Brahms always expected his stepmother to be present at his public appearances in Hamburg, and continued to stay with her, when visiting the city, until she went to live at Pinneberg. On an occasion of his -coming, after her retirement, to conduct a symphony at one of Buelow's -Hamburg concerts, he took a room for her next his own at the Hotel +coming, after her retirement, to conduct a symphony at one of Bülow's +Hamburg concerts, he took a room for her next his own at the Hôtel Moser, that they might be as much as possible together during the few days of his stay, and led her on his arm to her seat at rehearsals and concert. Frau Caroline did not, perhaps, entirely fathom the depths and @@ -9451,14 +9416,14 @@ Fantasias, Rhapsodies, Ballades, Intermezzi, the vaguest of all possible titles.[81] The book Op. 117 has become really popular, and is sold in the United Kingdom alone in its thousands. One of the first persons--perhaps the first--to hear books Op. 116 and 117 was Frau -Schumann's pupil, Fraeulein Ilona Eibenschuetz (now Mrs. Carl Derenberg), +Schumann's pupil, Fräulein Ilona Eibenschütz (now Mrs. Carl Derenberg), to whom Brahms played them on their completion, inviting her especially to hear them. Asking Brahms to be present in October at a festival meeting of the Imperial and Royal Society of Physicians, Billroth says: - 'I should like to see you for once in evening dress [_schoen + 'I should like to see you for once in evening dress [_schön decorirt_]. If, however, you object to this, you will find a place among the younger doctors in the (not high) gallery in walking costume.' @@ -9509,7 +9474,7 @@ bereavement on the deaths of brother and sister had been less enduring in its sting. His friend Pohl, librarian of the Gesellschaft, died in 1887, but with this exception the old circle of chums remained as it had been. Joachim, Stockhausen, Grimm, Dietrich, Kirchner, Hanslick, Faber, -Billroth, Goldmark, Epstein, Gaensbacher, all had continued with him, +Billroth, Goldmark, Epstein, Gänsbacher, all had continued with him, whilst in Frau Schumann's presence he was at the age of sixty-one still young, with youthful feelings of veneration in his heart. The death of Billroth dealt him a severe blow. Who shall say that even at this time @@ -9540,7 +9505,7 @@ out of doors in October.' The lady sent word to the kitchen that the dinner was to be put back for twenty minutes, and, begging her visitors to walk in the garden meanwhile, gave orders for the alteration of her arrangements. 'But what did Brahms say when he found he was causing such -trouble?' someone asked Fraeulein Conrat afterwards. 'Then he was good +trouble?' someone asked Fräulein Conrat afterwards. 'Then he was good again,' she replied. Such incidents could be multiplied from the experiences of many of Brahms' friends. They serve chiefly to prove that the master's mind lost its pliancy as he grew older, and that he became @@ -9552,9 +9517,9 @@ trouble themselves to criticise the outer crust of irritability and roughness that sometimes concealed it from the appreciation of less indulgent observers. -[Illustration: SILHOUETTE BY DR. BOeHLER. +[Illustration: SILHOUETTE BY DR. BÖHLER. -_Photograph by R. Lechner (Wilh. Mueller), Vienna._] +_Photograph by R. Lechner (Wilh. Müller), Vienna._] 'All that you tell me is very nice,' said Brahms one day to Herr Conrat's two gifted young daughters, who, paying the master a visit in @@ -9569,7 +9534,7 @@ prouder of it than of all your other studies.' After the completion of the Clarinet Quintet and Trio in 1892, Brahms allowed his mind the refreshment of change of work. The only original compositions belonging to the following year are the two books of -'Clavierstuecke,' Op. 118 and 119, the appearance of which we have +'Clavierstücke,' Op. 118 and 119, the appearance of which we have already chronicled. He was, however, engaged with his collection of German Folk-songs, arranged with pianoforte accompaniment, six volumes for one voice, and the seventh for leader and small chorus. @@ -9593,17 +9558,17 @@ and artistic culture, a child of the people by sympathy. He loved, and ever had loved, the simple peasant folk of the country places where he dwelt, as part of the great life of nature which was his delight. His partiality for them had in it something which resembled his feeling for -children. He was pleased with their naivete, valued their confidence, +children. He was pleased with their naïveté, valued their confidence, and perhaps, idealist as he was, gave them credit for a genuineness and simplicity not always theirs. In their songs, it was this same naturalness that attracted him, and whether in his original settings of national texts, or in his arrangements of the people's melodies, nearly always, as we have seen, left the words as he found them in their -spontaneous directness of expression. Writing to Professor Baechtold, to +spontaneous directness of expression. Writing to Professor Bächtold, to whom he sent a copy of his collection, he says: '... I think you will find some things new to you, for if you have - been interested in the music of our folk-songs, Erk and now Boehme + been interested in the music of our folk-songs, Erk and now Böhme will have been your guides? These have hitherto led the (very Philistine) tone, and my collection stands in direct opposition to them. I could and should like to gossip more if I knew that you @@ -9620,7 +9585,7 @@ cleaning of windows, and other preparations visible from outside--were eagerly looked forward to by the country people near as the first tokens of the approaching season. -Frau Grueber's little house, of which Brahms occupied the first-floor, +Frau Grüber's little house, of which Brahms occupied the first-floor, was built on a mountain slope, and a short flight of steps at the side led to a small garden furnished with a grass plot, a garden bench, and a summer-house. Visitors had to mount the steps, cross the garden, find a @@ -9641,7 +9606,7 @@ inspecting some of his belongings. One or other of his friends frequently called for him about half-past eleven, and soon afterwards he would start out and gradually make his -way to the Hotel Kaiserin Elisabeth. Between two and three o'clock he +way to the Hôtel Kaiserin Elisabeth. Between two and three o'clock he usually made his appearance on the promenade by the side of the river. Stopping at Walter's coffee-house, he would seat himself at a table under the trees outside, where a cup of black coffee and the daily @@ -9693,7 +9658,7 @@ and another to gain a prize. Two Sonatas for clarinet and pianoforte, the last works of chamber music composed by Brahms, were completed during the summer of 1894, and -towards the end of September Muehlfeld arrived at Ischl to try them with +towards the end of September Mühlfeld arrived at Ischl to try them with the composer. The first private performance took place very soon afterwards, when the two artists played them before the ducal circle of Meiningen at the palace of Berchtesgarten. @@ -9704,43 +9669,43 @@ complete one of the kind we shall have to record. For the last time we find Frau Schumann and her husband's and her own two dearest musician-friends assembled and making music together. Brahms arrived at her house on a few days' visit on the 9th of the month; on the 10th -Muehlfeld spent the evening there, having come from Meiningen at the +Mühlfeld spent the evening there, having come from Meiningen at the composer's especial request, and the new works were played to the illustrious lady, 'the revered Frau Schumann,' as Brahms used to call her to his younger friends, who had now completed her seventy-fifth year. The next day Joachim, prince of violinists at sixty-three as at twenty-one, the age at which he entered these pages, gave a concert with his colleagues of the Quartet, and on the 12th there was a party at Herr -and Frau Sommerhoff's, when Brahms and Muehlfeld again played the two -Sonatas, and Frau Schumann, Joachim, and Muehlfeld, Mozart's beautiful +and Frau Sommerhoff's, when Brahms and Mühlfeld again played the two +Sonatas, and Frau Schumann, Joachim, and Mühlfeld, Mozart's beautiful Clarinet Trio, a favourite work of Brahms. The reunion of old friends was completed by the presence of Stockhausen, who, like Frau Schumann, had been resident in Frankfurt since 1878. On the 13th, the third -Frankfurt performance of the Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms and Muehlfeld +Frankfurt performance of the Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms and Mühlfeld took place at a large music-party at Frau Schumann's, and another memorable item of the evening's pleasures was the playing by Frau -Schumann and Muehlfeld of Schumann's Fantasiestuecke for pianoforte and +Schumann and Mühlfeld of Schumann's Fantasiestücke for pianoforte and clarinet. Joachim had left to fulfil other engagements before the evening, and Brahms departed on the 14th. -The master's journeys and performances with Muehlfeld gave him +The master's journeys and performances with Mühlfeld gave him extraordinary pleasure, and the publication of the two sonatas, which in the usual course of things would have taken place in the autumn of 1894, was delayed until the summer of 1895, that his possession of the -manuscripts might be prolonged. Both works were performed at the Rose +manuscripts might be prolonged. Both works were performed at the Rosé concerts, Vienna, by the composer and his friend--No. 2 in E flat on January 8, 1895, when the Clarinet Quintet was also played; and No. 1 in F minor at an extra concert on January 11, the programme of which included the G major String Quintet. Amongst other towns visited by -Brahms and Muehlfeld in the month of February were Frankfurt, Rudesheim, +Brahms and Mühlfeld in the month of February were Frankfurt, Rudesheim, and Meiningen, and the master was seen for the last time in public by his Frankfurt friends on the 17th, when he listened to a performance of his D major Symphony, and conducted his Academic Overture at a Museum concert. The two sonatas were performed for the first time after publication at Miss Fanny Davies' concert of June 24 in St. James's -Hall, London, by the concert-giver and Muehlfeld, engaged expressly to +Hall, London, by the concert-giver and Mühlfeld, engaged expressly to come to England for the occasion. The manuscripts of both works are in -the possession of Muehlfeld, to whom the composer presented them on +the possession of Mühlfeld, to whom the composer presented them on publication, with an appreciative autograph inscription. With the publication of the two Clarinet Sonatas, our master's career is @@ -9792,7 +9757,7 @@ of the work included in the complete edition. 1895-1897 The Meiningen Festival--Visit to Frau Schumann--Festival at - Zuerich--Brahms in Berlin--The 'Four Serious Songs'--Geheimrath + 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 @@ -9810,7 +9775,7 @@ been called, from the circumstance that the programmes were devoted to works by Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Those of Brahms selected for performance included the Song of Triumph, the fourth Symphony, the B flat Pianoforte Concerto, with d'Albert as pianist, the Clarinet Sonatas -performed by the same artist with Muehlfeld, some of the Vocal Quartets, +performed by the same artist with Mühlfeld, some of the Vocal Quartets, amongst them the early favourite 'Alternative Dance Song,' and others. The festival was an immense success, and the pleasure which the master @@ -9835,10 +9800,10 @@ particular suggestion, invited to spend the evening at Frau Schumann's house. Professor Kufferath, a pupil of Mendelssohn at Leipzig, and on a very old footing of intimacy at the Schumanns', had been for more than twenty years on terms of cordial friendship with Brahms also, though the -two men met but seldom. Frau Schumann's daughters Marie and Eugenie, and +two men met but seldom. Frau Schumann's daughters Marie and Eugénie, and Stockhausen, were the only others present. The hours were spent in pleasant chat as between old friends, and music was represented only by -a few of Brahms' folk-songs sung by Mrs. Speyer (Fraeulein Antonia +a few of Brahms' folk-songs sung by Mrs. Speyer (Fräulein Antonia Kufferath) to the master's accompaniment. Brahms left the next morning, but before his departure he requested his @@ -9857,7 +9822,7 @@ October morning, the final link had been added. Frau Schumann and Brahms were not to meet again on earth. A four days' festival in October (19-22) to celebrate the inauguration -of the new concert-hall at Zuerich seems to carry us more than one stage +of the new concert-hall at Zürich seems to carry us more than one stage nearer the end. It brought Brahms for the last time to Switzerland to conduct his Triumphlied; a fine close--for as such it may almost be regarded--to a noble career. @@ -9893,11 +9858,11 @@ When he bade the master farewell on the day after the concert, the two friends clasped hands in a final grasp. One of Brahms' late public appearances was on the occasion of the -concert given in the Boersendorfer Hall, Vienna, by Signorina Alice Barbi +concert given in the Börsendorfer Hall, Vienna, by Signorina Alice Barbi (now the Baroness Wolff Homersee) shortly before her marriage. He pleased himself by acting as accompanist to the distinguished cantatrice, whose programme included a number of his songs. He held the -baton for the last time on a Vienna platform when he directed the +bâton for the last time on a Vienna platform when he directed the performance of his Academic Overture by the students of the conservatoire at the festival concert given to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary (1895) of the opening of the present home of @@ -10008,7 +9973,7 @@ out, as it were, to meet the thought of his death. On the other hand, his repeated assertion that the songs had been composed for his own birthday points to the possibility that his mind may have been under the influence of forebodings of which he was, perhaps, but vaguely -conscious. 'Yes, Grueber, we are in the front line now,' he said to his +conscious. 'Yes, Grüber, we are in the front line now,' he said to his landlord on hearing of the death of some of the old people in the course of one of his last summers at Ischl. @@ -10067,7 +10032,7 @@ Death, and Resurrection of Christ; and yet, as we have endeavoured to show, it contains the presentiment, the inspiration, of something positive. From Brahms' standpoint the attempt to go behind the mysteries of life and death, to construct the unspeakable, the unthinkable, into -verbal formulae, is not only predoomed to failure, but is almost +verbal formulæ, is not only predoomed to failure, but is almost irreverent. Yet, as we may remember, 'he had his faith,' and if anything may be judged of it from the story of his life, the spirit of his works, this faith lay in acceptance of the immutability of truth, the @@ -10099,7 +10064,7 @@ train, and his consequent anxiety lest he should be late, went to Honnef to stay till the next day with Herr and Frau Wehermann, the near relatives of his Crefeld friends, the von Beckeraths and von der Leyens, who were at the time on a visit there. Professor Richard Barth and his -wife, Dr. Ophuels, and two of the Meiningen musicians, Concertmeister +wife, Dr. Ophüls, and two of the Meiningen musicians, Concertmeister Eldering and Herr Piening, were also of the party. The master was very much excited and overcome on his arrival at Honnef, but the soothing influence of the Rhine country, so closely associated with the @@ -10115,7 +10080,7 @@ emotion, which communicated itself to his companions, played through the birthday,' he said in the same words which he afterwards used to Dr. Engelmann. He then played some new organ preludes. -He was agreeably interested in Dr. Ophuels' project of arranging a +He was agreeably interested in Dr. Ophüls' project of arranging a collection of his composed texts. 'I have often wished for such a thing, for though I do not care to look closely at my music, it would be quite pleasant to recall it now and then by reading the texts.' The collection @@ -10205,7 +10170,7 @@ cheer him; and Faber came to be near him, accompanied him in his daily walks, and took tender care of him. The report written to Hanslick by the distinguished Carlsbad physician -Dr. Gruenberger, after three weeks' careful observation, was ominous. +Dr. Grünberger, after three weeks' careful observation, was ominous. There was considerable swelling of the liver, with complete blocking of the gall-passages, and the inevitable results--jaundice, indigestion, etc. The eminent medical authority could not but regard the condition of @@ -10232,7 +10197,7 @@ Quartet gave him touching pleasure; he was with them as much as possible during the day, and generally remained with them, after attending their concerts, until late at night. He continued to take interest in important new compositions, and begged Hausmann to come to his rooms to -play him Dvorak's Violoncello Concerto. He accompanied the entire work +play him Dvorák's Violoncello Concerto. He accompanied the entire work on the piano, and broke into enthusiastic admiration at the end of each movement, exclaiming after the last one, 'Had I known that such a violoncello concerto as that could be written, I would have tried to @@ -10251,10 +10216,10 @@ whose joy it was to feel that they were privileged to afford him some solace in his weakness and suffering. The Joachim party returned to Vienna after a tour in the Austrian -provinces, and gave two concluding concerts in the Boersendorfer Hall on +provinces, and gave two concluding concerts in the Börsendorfer Hall on January 1 and 2, 1897. Ill as he was, Brahms not only attended both concerts, but came on the morning of the 2nd to Joachim's rooms at the -Hotel Tegethof to listen to the rehearsal of his G major Quintet, which +Hôtel Tegethof to listen to the rehearsal of his G major Quintet, which was in the evening's programme. He derived peculiar pleasure from hearing it. 'That is not a bad piece,' he said, as though half ignoring that it was his own. The scene which took place after the performance of @@ -10302,13 +10267,13 @@ February passed, and Brahms grew continually worse. Every day he spent a good deal of time in looking through and destroying old letters and other papers. 'It is so sad,' he would say, when one or other intimate friend called and found him thus employed, his stove filled with ashes. -He attended the Philharmonic concert on March 7, when Dvorak's +He attended the Philharmonic concert on March 7, when Dvorák's Violoncello Concerto, played by Hugo Becker, and his own fourth Symphony in E minor were in the programme. Going into the concert-room he met his -old friend Gaensbacher. 'Ah,' he said, 'you have been so often to see me, +old friend Gänsbacher. 'Ah,' he said, 'you have been so often to see me, and I cannot go to you, I am so suffering;' then, rousing himself a little, went on, 'You will hear a piece to-day, a piece by a man!' -(Dvorak's concerto). +(Dvorák's concerto). The fourth symphony had never become a favourite work in Vienna. Received with reserve on its first performance, it had not since gained @@ -10332,13 +10297,13 @@ Brahms appeared after the concert at a luncheon-party given by Excellenz Dumba, a distinguished protector of art in Vienna. About twenty-five gentlemen, chiefly artists and art-lovers, and the ladies of the house were present. Brahms was placed near to several of his intimate -friends--Epstein, Conrat, Hanslick, Gaensbacher, and Mandyczewski--but he +friends--Epstein, Conrat, Hanslick, Gänsbacher, and Mandyczewski--but he was not able to remain long. Within a few days of this date his Ischl landlady received a postcard from him announcing his intention of going to Ischl earlier than usual, and desiring that his rooms might be got ready. The last opera he heard was his friend Goldmark's 'Das Heimchen'; he entered a theatre for the last time on March 13, sitting with -Hanslick at the production of Johann Strauss' 'Die Goettin der Vernunft,' +Hanslick at the production of Johann Strauss' 'Die Göttin der Vernunft,' but was obliged to leave at the end of the second act, and, much against his will, suffered a friend to accompany him home in a cab. @@ -10350,7 +10315,7 @@ every day in his carriage to take him to drive in the Prater, where the fresh air somewhat revived him. His strength of will remained phenomenal to the last. He dragged himself to a rehearsal of the Roeger-Soldat Quartet party held at Frau Wittgenstein's less than a fortnight before -his death, to hear Weber's Clarinet Quintet with Muehlfeld's +his death, to hear Weber's Clarinet Quintet with Mühlfeld's co-operation. A performance of the work at Meiningen had particularly pleased him, and its inclusion in the Soldat programme was by his suggestion. In the same week he paid his last visit to the Fabers, and, @@ -10490,14 +10455,14 @@ societies of Vienna; by the Philharmonic Society, Society of Music-lovers, Cecilia Society of Hamburg; by the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin; by the various musical societies of Berlin, Leipzig, Budapest, Cologne, Salzburg, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Jena, Laubach, Lemberg, Graz, -St. Petersburg, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cambridge, Basle, Zuerich, and many +St. Petersburg, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cambridge, Basle, Zürich, and many other towns. Six cars scarcely sufficed to hold them. The arrangements of the public funeral with which the city of Vienna honoured the remains of the great composer formed a singular contrast to the simplicity which had marked the daily habits of his life. Details may be read in the journals of the time. We shall confine ourselves to -the record of a few of those appropriate to our narrative. The cortege, +the record of a few of those appropriate to our narrative. The cortège, followed by the long train of mourners, started from Carlsgasse about half-past two, and, proceeding to the building of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, halted before the principal entrance, where arrangements @@ -10523,7 +10488,7 @@ distress. At the entrance to the Friedhof the coffin was surrounded by personal friends of the deceased composer, carrying lighted wind-torches, and was -accompanied by them to the grave. They were Ignaz Bruell, Anton Dvorak, +accompanied by them to the grave. They were Ignaz Brüll, Anton Dvorák, Arthur Faber, Dr. Fellinger, Robert Fuchs, Richard Heuberger, Max Kalbeck, Ludwig Koch, Eusebius Mandyczewski, Dr. von Miller-Aichholz, Richard von Perger. At the grave-side Dr. von Perger spoke a few words @@ -10572,7 +10537,7 @@ stated as follows: Brahms is said to have left, besides his library, which included valuable autograph musical manuscripts, and a very few personal -possessions, about L20,000 in investments. In the original will three +possessions, about £20,000 in investments. In the original will three societies--the Liszt Pensions-Verein of Hamburg, the Czerny Verein and the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde of Vienna--were named as the inheritors, subject to the payment of a legacy to the composer's @@ -10607,19 +10572,19 @@ Festival in October, 1899. The bust of the master which it displays is the work of Professor Hildebrandt. The memorial erected at the grave by the heirs, after the final -settlement of the property, designed and executed by Fraeulein Ilse +settlement of the property, designed and executed by Fräulein Ilse Conrat, was unveiled on May 7, 1903, the seventieth anniversary of Brahms' birth. It consists of a marble bust and pedestal in front of a marble headstone, on which are allegorical figures in bas-relief. Memorial tablets have been placed by the respective municipalities on the houses in which Brahms lived in Vienna, Ischl, and Thun, and the -garden of the house at Muerz Zuschlag has been bought by the town and +garden of the house at Mürz Zuschlag has been bought by the town and made into a music-garden. A bronze bust of the master by Frau Dr. Fellinger stands in the musicians' pavilion. A Brahms-Haus has been erected by Dr. von Miller-Aichholz in his private -grounds at Gmuenden, the rooms of which are constructed to the exact +grounds at Gmünden, the rooms of which are constructed to the exact dimensions of those occupied by Brahms in Ischl, and furnished with the Ischl furniture as it used to stand. They contain an interesting collection of musical and other autographs of the master, photographs, @@ -10651,11 +10616,11 @@ hope and love, these three; and the greatest of them is love.' [86] See for an account of Herzogenberg's church music 'Heinrich von Herzogenberg und die evangelischen Kirchenmusik,' by Friedrich Spitta. -Reprint from the _Monatschrift fuer Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst_, +Reprint from the _Monatschrift für Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst_, 1900, No. 11. -[87] Preface to the 'Vollstaendige Sammlung der von Johannes Brahms -componirten und musikalisch bearbeiteten Dichtungen,' by Dr. G. Ophuels. +[87] Preface to the 'Vollständige Sammlung der von Johannes Brahms +componirten und musikalisch bearbeiteten Dichtungen,' by Dr. G. Ophüls. [88] 'Der musikalische Nachlass von Johannes Brahms,' by Ludwig Karpath. _Signale_, March 26, 1902. @@ -10908,7 +10873,7 @@ _The references are to the pages of this work._ | | | 270. 81 | Tragic Overture for Orchestra | 1881 | II. 189, 190, 192, | | | 195, 201. - 82 | Naenie (by Friedrich Schiller) | 1881 | II. 29, 192, 193, + 82 | Nänie (by Friedrich Schiller) | 1881 | II. 29, 192, 193, | for Chorus and Orchestra | | 196-198, 205, | (Harp _ad libitum_) | | 206. 83 | Concerto for Pianoforte in | 1882 | I. 27, 33; @@ -10966,7 +10931,7 @@ _The references are to the pages of this work._ 107 | Five Songs for one voice | 1889 | II. 238. 108 | Sonata in D minor for | 1889 | II. 238. | Pianoforte and Violin | | - 109 | Fest and Gedenksprueche for | 1890 | II. 240, 241. + 109 | Fest and Gedenksprüche for | 1890 | II. 240, 241. | double Chorus | | | _a capella_ | | 110 | Three Motets for four- and | 1890 | II. 242, 246. @@ -11044,10 +11009,10 @@ WORKS WITHOUT OPUS NUMBER WORKS EDITED BY BRAHMS - Couperin: Clavier Compositions. (Chrysander's 'Denkmaele der + Couperin: Clavier Compositions. (Chrysander's 'Denkmäle der Tonkunst.') - Mozart: Requiem. (Breitkopf and Haertel's critically revised + Mozart: Requiem. (Breitkopf and Härtel's critically revised complete edition.) Schubert: Three Pianoforte pieces. @@ -11209,12 +11174,12 @@ MIXED CHORUS WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT. Op. 22. Marienlieder Op. 29. Two Motets; five-part - Op. 42. Three Songs (Gesaenge); six-part + Op. 42. Three Songs (Gesänge); six-part Op. 62. Seven Songs (Lieder) Op. 74. Two Motets; four- and six-part Op. 93A Songs (Lieder) and Romances - Op. 104. Songs (Gesaenge) - Op. 109. Fest and Gedenksprueche + Op. 104. Songs (Gesänge) + Op. 109. Fest and Gedenksprüche Op. 110. Three Motets; four- and eight-part German Folk-songs (dedicated to the Vienna Singakademie) @@ -11237,7 +11202,7 @@ VOCAL MUSIC WITH ORCHESTRAL ACCOMPANIMENT. Op. 53. Rhapsody: Contralto Solo and men's Chorus Op. 54. Song of Destiny: mixed Chorus Op. 55. Triumph-Song: double Chorus - Op. 82. Naenie: mixed Chorus + Op. 82. Nänie: mixed Chorus Op. 89. Song of the Fates: mixed Chorus VOCAL MUSIC VARIOUSLY ACCOMPANIED. @@ -11279,23 +11244,23 @@ VOCAL DUETS WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. - Op. 3. 6 Gesaenge + Op. 3. 6 Gesänge Op. 6. 6 " Op. 7. 6 " Op. 14. 8 Lieder und Romanzen Op. 19. 5 Gedichte - Op. 32. 9 Lieder und Gesaenge + Op. 32. 9 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 33. 15 Magelone Romanzen - Op. 43. 4 Gesaenge + Op. 43. 4 Gesänge Op. 46. 4 " Op. 47. 5 Lieder Op. 48. 7 " Op. 49. 5 " - Op. 57. 8 Lieder und Gesaenge + Op. 57. 8 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 58. 8 " " Op. 59. 8 " " Op. 63. 9 " " - Op. 69. 9 Gesaenge + Op. 69. 9 Gesänge Op. 70. 4 " Op. 71. 5 " Op. 72. 5 " @@ -11309,7 +11274,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Op. 105. 5 " Op. 106. 5 " Op. 107. 5 " - Op. 121. 4 Gesaenge + Op. 121. 4 Gesänge Mondnacht (Total 195 Songs) German Folk-songs @@ -11338,7 +11303,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Arien, d', I. 84. Arnim, Bettina v., I. 144. " Gisela v., I. 195. - Artot, I. 83. + Artôt, I. 83. Asmus, Christiana, I. 46. Astor, II. 134. Austria, Francis Joseph, Emperor of, II. 242. @@ -11358,7 +11323,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. 272; II. 13, 39, 40, 54, 60, 71, 86, 102. Bachrich, II. 143, 246. - Baechthold, II. 229, 262. + Bächthold, II. 229, 262. Backhaus, I. 73. Bade, Carl, I. 54; II. 57, 80, 175. @@ -11396,7 +11361,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Bergmann, Carl, I. 163. Berlioz, Hector, I. 100, 124, 135, 136, 138, 139, 147, 286, 288; II. 139. - Bernhard de Treves, I. 290. + Bernhard de Trèves, I. 290. Berninger, II. 73. Bernsdorf, Edward, I. 227, 228, 229; II. 134, 154, 178. @@ -11415,19 +11380,19 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. " Calculator, I. 97. " " Frau, I. 98. Bocklet, C. M. v., I. 64. - Boehm, Josef, I. 92, 102. - Boehme, F. M., II. 262. - Boeie, John, I. 261, 268, 270, 277; + Böhm, Josef, I. 92, 102. + Böhme, F. M., II. 262. + Böie, John, I. 261, 268, 270, 277; II. 143, 175. - Boeie, Marie, I. 123, 266. - See also under Voelckers. + Böie, Marie, I. 123, 266. + See also under Völckers. Boieldieu, F. A., I. 236, 255; II. 71. - Boelling, Bertha, I. 176, 184. + Bölling, Bertha, I. 176, 184. Boni, II. 94. Borrisow, Rev. L., II. 103. - Boers, I. 84. - Boersendorfer, II. 9, 10. + Börs, I. 84. + Börsendorfer, II. 9, 10. Borwick, Leonard, II. 201. Bosshard, II. 196. Boston Symphony Orchestra, I. 273. @@ -11447,12 +11412,12 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. See also under Nissen. " Peter, I. 45, 46. " Peter Hinrich, I. 47. - Brahmueller, II. 51. + Brahmüller, II. 51. Brandes, Emma, See Engelmann. Brandt, Auguste, I. 239. Branscheidt, II. 187. Brassin, Louis, II. 88. - Breitkopf and Haertel, I. 123, 124, 129, 135, 141, 144, 162, 187, 191; + Breitkopf and Härtel, I. 123, 124, 129, 135, 141, 144, 162, 187, 191; II. 26, 138. Brendel, Franz, I. 102, 128, 138, 139, 249-253, 274, 275; II. 95. @@ -11462,10 +11427,10 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Brodsky, II. 179. Brouillet, II. 94. Bruch, Max, II. 51, 73, 141, 168, 177. - Brueckner, Anton, II. 4. - Bruell, Ignaz, II. 153, 163, 202, 207, 240, 288. + Brückner, Anton, II. 4. + Brüll, Ignaz, II. 153, 163, 202, 207, 240, 288. Bruyck, Carl Debrois van, I. 193, 194. - Buelow, Hans v., I. 26-31, 100, 103, 124, 128, 133, 139, 154, 211, + Bülow, Hans v., I. 26-31, 100, 103, 124, 128, 133, 139, 154, 211, 217, 252; II. 50-52, 148, 183, 191, 192, 198, 216, 217, 218, 231, 232, 238, 241. @@ -11501,7 +11466,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Cornelius, Peter, I. 103, 124; II. 4, 14. Cornet, Madame, I. 83, 84, 85, 90. - " Fraeulein, I. 83, 84. 85. + " Fräulein, I. 83, 84. 85. See also under Passy-Cornet. Cossel, Frau, I. 69; II. 34, 175. @@ -11512,7 +11477,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. II. 175, 244. Cossmann, Bernhard, I. 103, 140; II. 31. - Couperin, Francois, I. 283; + Couperin, François, I. 283; II. 86. Cramer, John, I. 58. Cranz, August, I. 86; @@ -11540,7 +11505,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. II. 4, 77, 78, 81, 94, 122, 154, 162, 189, 272. Denninghoff-Giesemann, I. 263-265. See also under Giesemann. - Derenberg See under Eibenschuetz. + Derenberg See under Eibenschütz. Dessoff, Otto, II. 2, 15, 128, 142, 147. Detmering, I. 61. Detmold, Lippe-- @@ -11559,21 +11524,21 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. " Clara, I. 255. Dobyhal, II. 6. Doetsch, II. 188. - Doehler, Theodor, I. 83. - Doempke, II. 217. + Döhler, Theodor, I. 83. + Dömpke, II. 217. Donizetti, I. 84. Donnhorf, II. 186, 188. Doppler, Franz, II. 16. Door, Anton, I. 185; II. 103, 202, 217, 237. " Frau, II. 284. - Doerffel, A., II. 134, 152, 164, 165, 178, 179, 217. - Draeseke, Felix, I. 252. + Dörffel, A., II. 134, 152, 164, 165, 178, 179, 217. + Dräseke, Felix, I. 252. Dumba, II. 282. Dunkl, II. 98. Dustmann, Louise, I. 277; II. 128. - Dvorak, Anton, II. 143, 185, 280, 282, 288. + Dvorák, Anton, II. 143, 185, 280, 282, 288. E. @@ -11584,7 +11549,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Ehlert, Louis, II. 153. Ehrbar, Friedrich, II. 153, 163, 207, 208, 217, 237, 252, 253. Ehrlich, Heinrich, I. 107, 122. - Eibenschuetz, Ilona, II. 258. + Eibenschütz, Ilona, II. 258. Eichendorff, J. v., I. 89, 137. Eldering, II. 276. Ella, John, I. 197; @@ -11593,7 +11558,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. II. 42. Engelmann, Dr. and Frau, II. 121, 138, 145, 154, 191. " Dr., II. 274, 276. - Eoetoos, Baroness, II. 191. + Eötoos, Baroness, II. 191. Epstein, Julius, II. 4, 6, 16, 202, 214, 217, 236, 259, 282. Erard, I. 197. Erk, II. 262. @@ -11629,14 +11594,14 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Frank, Ernst, II. 146, 156. Franz, Frau, II. 202. " Robert, I. 126. - Fraesch, I. 85. + Fräsch, I. 85. Frege, I. 228. Freund, Robert, II. 251. Fribberg, Franz, II. 15. - Friedlaender, Theka, II. 103. + Friedländer, Theka, II. 103. Froude, J., I. 276. Fuchs, II. 202, 217, 288. - Fuerchtgott, II. 9. + Fürchtgott, II. 9. G. @@ -11667,11 +11632,11 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Gompertz-Betteheim, II. 233. Gompertz, Richard, II. 183. Gotha, Friedrich, Prince of, II. 84. - Goetz, Hermann, II. 138, 156. - Goetze, I. 138. + Götz, Hermann, II. 138, 156. + Götze, I. 138. Gouvy, Theodor, I. 136, 180. Gozzi, II. 92, 159. - Graedener, I. 207, 239; + Grädener, I. 207, 239; II. 5, 173. Graun, II. 98. Grimm, Hermann, II. 92. @@ -11684,8 +11649,8 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. II. 71, 72, 91, 106, 122, 126, 127, 128, 173, 176, 229, 234, 235. Grove, George, I. 198. - Grueber, II. 262, 273, 283. - Gruenberger, II. 279. + Grüber, II. 262, 273, 283. + Grünberger, II. 279. Grund, Elise, II. 286, 290. See also under Brahms. " Wilhelm, I. 88, 235, 268, 277; @@ -11695,8 +11660,8 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. H. Hafner, Carl, I. 260, 261, 263. - Halle, Charles, II. 103. - " Lady, See Norman-Neruda. + Hallé, Charles, II. 103. + " Lady, See Norman-Néruda. Hallier, I. 258, 259, 262; II. 175. " Julie, I. 268, 269. @@ -11717,7 +11682,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Hauptmann, Moritz, I. 136, 187. Hauser, II. 31. " Frau, II. 94. - Hausmann, Fraeulein, II. 94. + Hausmann, Fräulein, II. 94. " Robert, I. 40; II. 204, 222, 223, 230, 231, 280. Heermann, II. 102, 204. @@ -11738,7 +11703,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Herzog, I. 84. Herzogenberg, Heinrich v., II. 134, 154, 274, 275. " Elisabeth v., II. 134, 154. - Hesse, Anna, Landgraefin of, II. 32. + Hesse, Anna, Landgräfin of, II. 32. " Alexander Friedrich, Landgraf of, II. 32, 33, 146, 216, 229, 230, 236, 271. Heuberger, Richard, I. 99; @@ -11753,10 +11718,10 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Hoch, II. 122. Hoffmann, E. T. A., I. 89, 93, 116, 121, 164. " J. F., I. 66, 188. - Hoelderlin, F., II. 77, 104, 105, 205. + Hölderlin, F., II. 77, 104, 105, 205. Hohenemser, II. 82. Hohenlohe, II. 195. - Hohenthal, Ida, Graefin v., I. 135, 144. + Hohenthal, Ida, Gräfin v., I. 135, 144. Holmes, Henry, II. 103. " W. H., II. 102. Holstein, Franz and Hedwig v., I. 136; @@ -11768,7 +11733,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Hoplit, See Pohl, R. Hornbostel, v., II. 279. Hubay, Eugen, II. 222. - Huebbe, Walter, I. 241, 258. + Hübbe, Walter, I. 241, 258. Hullah, John, II. 56, 87. Hummel, J. N., II. 95. Hummer, II. 246. @@ -11836,15 +11801,15 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. " Sophie, I. 91. " General-Secretary, II. 285. " Ludwig, II. 288. - Koehler, Louis, I. 227. + Köhler, Louis, I. 227. " Dr., I. 96. " Rector, I. 73, 78; II. 32. - Koenigslow, Otto v., I. 256, 277; + Königslow, Otto v., I. 256, 277; II. 40. Koning, II. 203. - Koeppelhoefer, I. 85. - Koestlin, Professor, II. 203. + Köppelhöfer, I. 85. + Köstlin, Professor, II. 203. " Josephine Lang, II. 203. Krause (Pianist), I. 138. Krause, (Singer), II. 38. @@ -11863,7 +11828,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Kuhnau, Johann, II. 80. Krummholtz, I. 270. Kundemann, II. 285. - Kuerner, II. 94. + Kürner, II. 94. Kyllmann, I. 256, 257; II. 187. @@ -11872,7 +11837,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Lachner, Franz, I. 180; II. 88, 230. - Lallement, Ave, I. 207, 232, 233, 258, 268, 277; + Lallement, Avé, I. 207, 232, 233, 258, 268, 277; II. 10, 11. Lamond, Frederic, II. 201, 216. Lange, S. de, II. 116. @@ -11903,11 +11868,11 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Little, Lena, II. 233. Lohfeldt, Rudolph, I. 86. Lorscheidt, II. 187. - Loewe, I. 74. + Löwe, I. 74. " J. C. G., II. 70. " Sophie, II. 103. - Loewenherz, Aaron, I. 76, 77, 264. - Luekbe, II. 46. + Löwenherz, Aaron, I. 76, 77, 264. + Lükbe, II. 46. Luther, Martin, II. 63. @@ -11916,7 +11881,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Maier, II. 26. Mangold, C. F., I. 126. Manns, August, II. 102, 179. - Mannstaedt, II. 207, 216. + Mannstädt, II. 207, 216. Mara, La, I. 59, 67, 85, 131, 140, 147. Marks, G. W. (ps. Joh. Brahms), I. 86. Martucci, II. 229. @@ -11941,7 +11906,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. " Hermann v., I. 214, 217, 240. " Hofmarschall v., I. 208, 246. " Frau v., I. 214, 216. - " Fraeulein v., I. 204, 208, 240. + " Fräulein v., I. 204, 208, 240. Michalek, II. 285. Miller, Christian, I. 69, 90. " Victor v. zu Aichholz, II. 202, 239, 279, 283, 284, 285, 288, @@ -11957,9 +11922,9 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Mozart's works played by Brahms, I. 59, 192, 215, 216, 262. " 'Figaro's Hochzeit', I. 80, 81, 83, 84, 180; II. 90. - Muehlfeld, Richard, I. 39, 40; + Mühlfeld, Richard, I. 39, 40; II. 248-251, 265-267, 283. - Mueller, II. 203, 204. + Müller, II. 203, 204. N. @@ -11967,14 +11932,14 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Nagy, Zoltan, II. 233. Naumann, Ernst, I. 120, 126, 157, 158; II. 94, 95. - Neruda, Franz, II. 147. + Néruda, Franz, II. 147. Neumann, Carl, I. 167; II. 197. Niebuhr, I. 46. Nissen, the sisters, I. 54. " Johanna H. Christiana, See under Brahms. Norman, Ludwig, I. 126. - Norman-Neruda, Wilhelmine, II. 103, 147, 183, 204. + Norman-Néruda, Wilhelmine, II. 103, 147, 183, 204. Nottebohm, M. G., II. 3, 16, 22. Novello, Clara, I. 104. @@ -11984,7 +11949,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Oldenburg, Grand-Duke of, I. 267; II. 10. " Grand-Duchess of, II. 68. - Ophuels, G., II. 276. + Ophüls, G., II. 276. Oser, Dr. and Frau, II. 163, 202. Ossian, II. 84. Otten, G. D., I. 186, 192, 206, 253. @@ -11998,7 +11963,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Paganini, Nicolo, II. 60. Palestrina, G. P. da, I. 188, 250; II. 292. - Paenzer, II. 60. + Pänzer, II. 60. Paque, W., II. 53. Passy-Cornet, II. 5, 9, 13. See also under Cornet. @@ -12021,7 +11986,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. See also under Faber. Possart, Ernst v., II. 188. Potter, Cipriani, II. 87. - Prueckner, Dionys, I. 108, 124. + Prückner, Dionys, I. 108, 124. Pyatt, G., II. 103. Pyllemann, Franz, II. 117. @@ -12061,24 +12026,24 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Risch, I. 83. Ritter, I. 113. Ritterhaus, II. 188. - Rittermueller, Philippine, See under Grimm. + Rittermüller, Philippine, See under Grimm. Roeger-Soldat, Marie, II. 179, 283. - Roentgen, I. 270. + Röntgen, I. 270. Rosa, Carl, I. 55. - Rose, Arnold, II. 22, 246, 250, 266. + Rosé, Arnold, II. 22, 246, 250, 266. Rosegger, II. 215, 216. Rosenhain, J., I. 83; II. 28, 230. - Roesing, Elisabeth, I. 265, 276; + Rösing, Elisabeth, I. 265, 276; II. 10. Rossini, G. A., I. 83. Rottenberg, v., II. 186, 237, 240. - Roever, II. 6. + Röver, II. 6. Rovetta, Giovanni, I. 188; II. 22. Rubinstein, Anton, I. 3, 65, 191, 192, 217; II. 28, 108, 133, 139. - Rueckert, Friedrich, II. 211. + Rückert, Friedrich, II. 211. S. @@ -12096,7 +12061,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Scarlatti, D., I. 5, 6, 18, 38, 197; II. 54, 71, 102. Schaafhausen, II. 188. - Schaefer, Julius, I. 126. + Schäfer, Julius, I. 126. Schelle, II. 52, 54, 62, 119. Schelper, II. 99. Schiller, Friedrich, I. 89, 137, 138, 289; @@ -12113,15 +12078,15 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Scholz, Bernhard, I. 251; II. 103, 104, 140, 166, 183, 275. " Dr., II. 18. - Schroeder, I. 73, 74, 90, 96. - Schroeder-Devrient, I. 177. + Schröder, I. 73, 74, 90, 96. + Schröder-Devrient, I. 177. Schubert, Franz, I. 21, 84, 235, 238, 267; II. 5, 15, 116, 119, 130, 136, 162, 174, 212, 274, 287. " Works played by Brahms, I. 5, 186, 199, 205, 209, 215, 236, 263, 268; II. 42, 54, 60, 70, 71, 86. - Schuebring, A., I. 118, 274, 275; + Schübring, A., I. 118, 274, 275; II. 73. Schultz, A., II. 18. Schulze, I. 209, 245. @@ -12143,14 +12108,14 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. II. 7, 13, 39, 42, 54, 60, 70, 86, 102, 189. " Elise, I. 168, 173. - " Eugenie, I. 220; + " Eugénie, I. 220; II. 268. " Felix, I. 219. " Julie, I. 169, 279; II. 93. " Marie, I. 168, 173, 252, 262; II. 48, 73, 268. - Schuetz, Heinrich, II. 22. + Schütz, Heinrich, II. 22. Schwarz, Johanna, II. 106. Schwenke, I. 63. Sechter, Simon, II. 3. @@ -12196,7 +12161,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Stegmayer, F., II. 3, 17, 18, 26. Stein, I. 180. Steinbach, Fritz, II. 232, 267. - Steinbruegger, II. 31. + Steinbrügger, II. 31. Steiner, A., II. 47, 138, 197, 229, 250, 269. Stern, Adolph, II. 95. Stern, Capellmeister, II. 88. @@ -12207,7 +12172,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. 154, 167, 187, 211, 259, 265, 268, 275, 289. " Frau, II. 35, 73. Stone, I. 277. - See also Minna Voelckers. + See also Minna Völckers. Stradella, A., II. 71. Straus, Ludwig, II. 103, 147, 238, 250. Strauss, Richard, II. 216. @@ -12242,7 +12207,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Verhulst, I. 180; II. 173, 191. Versan, Raoul de, II. 103. - Vesque v. Puettlingen, Helene, I. 136, 137. + Vesque v. Püttlingen, Helene, I. 136, 137. Viardot-Garcia, Pauline, II. 31, 94, 95, 102. Vienna Singakademie concerts under Brahms, II. 20, 22, 23, 25, 26. Vienna Gesellschaft concerts under Brahms, II. 116-120, 129-131, 136, @@ -12251,14 +12216,14 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Vinci, Leonardo da, I. 218. Viotti, II. 177. Vogel, II. 107. - Voegl, Bernhard, II. 217. + Vögl, Bernhard, II. 217. Vogler, II. 18. - Voelckers, Herr, I. 258, 265, 266. + Völckers, Herr, I. 258, 265, 266. " Betty, I. 255, 265, 266; II. 175. " Marie, I. 255, 265, 266; II. 72, 82, 175. - See also under Boeie. + See also under Böie. " Minna, I. 266; II. 73. Volkland, Alfred, II. 134. @@ -12269,7 +12234,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. W. Wachtel, Theodor, I. 84. - Waefelghem, II. 102. + Wäfelghem, II. 102. Wagner, Friedchen, I. 192, 218, 219, 238, 239, 240, 241, 269; II. 175. " Thusnelda, I. 239. @@ -12279,7 +12244,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Waiz, I. 113. Wallace, Lady, II. 91. Walter, Gustav, II. 85, 94, 233. - " Fraeulein, II. 233. + " Fräulein, II. 233. Wasielewsky, Josef v., I. 114-116, 118, 132, 195; II. 121. Webbe, Septimus, II. 201. @@ -12315,7 +12280,7 @@ SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. Wolff-Homersee, Baroness, See under Barbi. Woronzow, I. 56. Wrede, II. 187. - Wuellner, Franz, I. 116; + Wüllner, Franz, I. 116; II. 117, 166. @@ -12501,7 +12466,7 @@ knows when he is beaten. _With numerous Illustrations, many in Photogravure or on Japanese Vellum, including facsimile Reproductions from Sketches by Landseer, Chantrey, Turner, etc. - Demy 4to._ =L2 2s. net.= _Limited to 350 copies._ + Demy 4to._ =£2 2s. net.= _Limited to 350 copies._ This sumptuous volume, which gives the history of one of the oldest and most famous fishing clubs, on that finest of all English streams, the @@ -12620,7 +12585,7 @@ interpret the aims of Oriental painting, and to appreciate it from the standpoint of a European in relation to the rest of the world's art. It is the general student and lover of painting,' he continues, 'whom I have wished to interest. My chief concern has been, not to discuss -questions of authorship or of archaeology, but to enquire what aesthetic +questions of authorship or of archæology, but to enquire what æsthetic value and significance these Eastern paintings have for us in the West.' Besides its stimulating artistic criticism, the book is full of interesting glimpses of Eastern history and thought in so far as they @@ -12665,7 +12630,7 @@ to throw much new light on the life of 'The Angelic Princess.' _With 32 Full-page Coloured Plates. Crown 4to._ =21s. net.= - _Also an Edition de Luxe, limited to 250 copies, at_ =L2 2s. net=. + _Also an Edition de Luxe, limited to 250 copies, at_ =£2 2s. net=. This work is the outcome of a desire to produce a volume worthy in every respect of the beautiful gardens of Scotland. Sir Herbert Maxwell, whose @@ -12703,9 +12668,9 @@ combines a light and genial style with sound practical information, so that his books are at once readable and instructive. Some idea of the scope of the present volume may be gained from the list of chapters, which is as follows: 1. Of Shrubs and their Placing. 2. Of Shrubs, -Mostly Evergreen. 3. Ranunculaceae, Papaveraceae, Cruciferae. 4. A +Mostly Evergreen. 3. Ranunculaceæ, Papaveraceæ, Cruciferæ. 4. A Collecting Day above Arolla. 5. Between Dianthus and Epilobium. 6. From -Epilobium on through Umbelliferae and Compositae. 7. Of Odd Treasures. 8. +Epilobium on through Umbelliferæ and Compositæ. 7. Of Odd Treasures. 8. The Big Bog and its Lilies. 9. The Greater Bog Plants. 10. Iris. 11. The Mountain Bog. 12. More of the Smaller Bog Plants. 13. The Water Garden. @@ -12799,7 +12764,7 @@ the gold of Elizabeth. _Crown 8vo._ =5s. net.= The author of this interesting book, who speaks, as it were, _ex -cathedra_, has here collected a series of eight lectures on architecture +cathedrâ_, has here collected a series of eight lectures on architecture delivered in the Royal Academy. In them he has endeavoured to establish a standpoint from which architecture should be studied and practised. His general position is that architecture is an art with a definite @@ -12959,10 +12924,10 @@ possible, dietetic foods have been avoided in the recipes, as they are often difficult to procure. Every recipe given has been tested to ensure accuracy, and the simplest language is used in explaining what has to be done. A special feature of the book is the large number of vegetable -souffles and creams. The various chapters deal with Stock and Soups; +soufflés and creams. The various chapters deal with Stock and Soups; Sauces; Pastes, Borders and Garnishes; Casseroles, Patties, Pies, Puddings and Timbales; Curries, Stews and Scallops; Galantines; -Croquettes; Vegetables; Aspics, Creams and Salads; Souffles, Omelettes +Croquettes; Vegetables; Aspics, Creams and Salads; Soufflés, Omelettes and Egg Dishes; Aigrettes and Fritters; Savouries; Macaroni and Rice; Sweets; and Menus. @@ -13002,7 +12967,7 @@ The hero, who tells his own story, is an All Hallows child, born in the one weird hour which makes him kith and kin to the spirits of the air. The mystery of Flodden and the strange events grouped round the ancient tradition as to the fate of the gallant James are stirringly told, and -lead up to the denouement, which comes with vivid unexpectedness at the +lead up to the dénouement, which comes with vivid unexpectedness at the close of the book. The lonely orphan of a wronged father is unwittingly schooled to @@ -13236,7 +13201,7 @@ Page 139, "Solennis" changed to "Solemnis". (On December 6--Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D major.) On Pages 143, 185, 280, 282, 288 and 307, the caron over the letter "r" -in "Dvorak" has been omitted. +in "Dvorák" has been omitted. "Wiesemann, I. 203." moved to page 319 to restore the Index's alphabetical order. @@ -13252,367 +13217,4 @@ is, none the less, absolutely and distinctly Brahms.) 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2) - -Author: Florence May - -Release Date: September 27, 2012 [EBook #40644] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIFE OF JOHANNES BRAHMS *** - - - - -Produced by Linda Cantoni, Veronika Redfern, Bryan Ness -and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian -Libraries) - - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: J. Brahms] - - - - - THE LIFE - OF - JOHANNES BRAHMS - - BY - FLORENCE MAY - - IN TWO VOLUMES - VOL. II. - - _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_ - - LONDON - EDWARD ARNOLD - 41 & 43 MADDOX STREET, BOND STREET, W. - 1905 - - (_All rights reserved_) - - - - - CONTENTS OF VOL. II. - - - 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 Hamburg Philharmonic--First - Serenade at Gesellschaft concert--Brahms' second concert--Richard - Wagner--Second Serenade at Vienna Philharmonic concert--Return - to Hamburg--Brahms elected conductor of Vienna - Singakademie--Return to Vienna--Singakademie concerts under - Brahms 1 - - - CHAPTER XIII - 1864-1867 - - 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 - Trio--Frau Caroline Schnack--Last visit to Detmold--First - Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello--The German Requiem--Brahms - at Zürich--Billroth--Brahms and Joachim on a concert-tour - in Switzerland--Hans v. Bülow--Reinthaler 27 - - - CHAPTER XIV - 1867-1869 - - 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 Stockhausen in - North Germany and Denmark--Performance of the German - Requiem in Bremen Cathedral--Brahms settles finally in Vienna--Brahms - and Stockhausen give concerts in Vienna and Budapest 57 - - - CHAPTER XV - 1869-1872 - - Brahms and Opera--Professor Heinrich Bulthaupt--The - Liebeslieder--First performance--The Rhapsody (Goethe's 'Harzreise') - performed privately at Carlsruhe--First public performance at - Jena--Geheimrath Gille--The 'Song of Triumph'--Performance of - first chorus at Bremen--Bernhard Scholz--The 'Song of Destiny'--First - performance--Death of Johann Jakob Brahms--First - performance of completed 'Triumphlied' at Carlsruhe--Summary - of Brahms' work as a composer since 1862 89 - - - CHAPTER XVI - 1872-1876 - - 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 - Engelmann--String Quartets--First performances--Anselm Feuerbach - in Vienna--Variations for Orchestra--First performances--'Triumphlied' - at Cologne, Basle, and Zürich--Resignation of - appointment as 'artistic director' to the Gesellschaft--Third - Pianoforte Quartet 115 - - - CHAPTER XVII - 1876-1878 - - 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--Second - Symphony--Vienna and Leipzig differ as to its merits 145 - - - CHAPTER XVIII - 1878-1881 - - Hamburg Philharmonic Jubilee Festival--Violin Concerto; first - performance by Joachim--Pianoforte Pieces, Op. 76--Sonata for - Pianoforte and Violin--First performances--Brahms at - Crefeld--Rhapsodies for Pianoforte--Heuberger's studies with - Brahms--Second Schumann Festival at Bonn--Brahms' two - Overtures--Breslau honorary degree 169 - - - CHAPTER XIX - 1881-1885 - - 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 - Fellinger--Pianoforte Trio in C major--First String - Quintet--The 'Parzenlied'--Third Symphony 193 - - - CHAPTER XX - 1885-1888 - - 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 Hausmann--Frau - Celestine Truxa--Double Concerto--Marxsen's death--Eugen - d'Albert--The Gipsy Songs--Conrat's translations from the - Hungarian--Brahms and Jenner--The 'Zum rothen Igel'--Ehrbar's - Brahms'-birthday asparagus luncheons--Third Sonata - for Pianoforte and Violin 214 - - - CHAPTER XXI - 1889-1895 - - Hamburg honorary citizenship--Christmas at Dr. Fellinger's--Second - String Quintet--Mühlfeld--Clarinet Quintet and Trio--Last - journey to Italy--Sixtieth birthday--Pianoforte Pieces--Billroth's - death--Brahms' collection of German Folk-songs--Life at - Ischl--Clarinet Sonatas--Frau Schumann, Brahms, and Joachim - together for the last time 239 - - - 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 - - - - - CHAPTER XII - 1862-1864 - - Vienna--Musical societies--Leading musicians--The Prater--Brahms' - appearance at a Hellmesberger Quartet concert--Brahms' first - concert in Vienna--Conductorship of the Hamburg Philharmonic--First - Serenade at Gesellschaft concert--Brahms' second concert--Richard - Wagner--Second Serenade at Vienna Philharmonic concert--Return - to Hamburg--Brahms elected conductor of the Vienna - Singakademie--Return to Vienna--Singakademie concerts under Brahms. - - -It would be interesting, on accompanying Johannes Brahms in imagination -on his first visit to Vienna--a visit that was to lead to results -scarcely less important to his career than those of the first -concert-journey through the provincial towns of Hanover undertaken nine -years and a half previously--to describe the gradual change which had -taken place in the musical life of the imperial city since the times -when it had counted Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven in turn among its -inhabitants. It would, however, lead too far from the purpose of this -narrative to follow the course by which the art of music, from being a -luxury to be enjoyed chiefly by the rich--and in Vienna, perhaps, -especially amongst the great capitals of Europe--had been opened to the -cultivation of the masses of citizens. Suffice it to say that in the -autumn of 1862 the conditions of musical activity in the Austrian -capital were essentially the same as we know them in 1905. - -The Court Opera, the home of which was the Kärthnerthor Theater, was -conducted by Otto Dessoff, who had been a distinguished pupil of the -Leipzig Conservatoire, and had succeeded the celebrated capellmeister, -Carl Anton Eckert, on his resignation of the post in 1860. In intimate -though not official connection with the opera were the Philharmonic -concerts given in the same building. These, started in 1849 by the -orchestral musicians of the opera as their own undertaking, had, after a -period of varying fortune, entered upon a flourishing phase of -existence. They were conducted by Dessoff in virtue of his position as -capellmeister of the opera, and though his rather cold style at first -prevented his winning Austrian sympathy, he by-and-by succeeded in -making good his footing by his musicianship and thoroughness, and by the -perfect finish of rendering that was attained by the orchestra under his -direction. - -The annual orchestral concerts given by the great Gesellschaft der -Musikfreunde (Society of Music-lovers), founded in 1813, took place in -the Redoubtensaal, and, though given under the Society's own 'artistic -director,' had, during the eight or nine years preceding the appointment -of Johann Herbeck to this post (1859), been dependent on the services of -the opera orchestra. Herbeck, feeling the inconveniences of such an -arrangement, determined to form an orchestra of his own, and, whilst -successfully carrying out his project, sought to make amends for the -first inevitable lack of complete finish in his performances by -cultivating a liberal spirit in the choice of programmes, and -introducing from time to time unfamiliar works by the best modern -classical composers. From this period the Gesellschaft and the -Philharmonic concerts came more or less to represent severally the -liberal and the conservative spirit of classical art, though it must be -added that Dessoff cherished the wish to educate his audience to wider -powers of appreciation, and sometimes included the name of Schumann in -the Philharmonic programmes, which, before his advent, had been closed -to works of more modern tendency than those of Mendelssohn. - -Parallel with these two institutions for the performance of instrumental -music were two choral societies, both supplied by amateurs. The -Singverein, a branch of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, which in 1862 -was, like the orchestra, under Herbeck's direction, occupied itself with -every kind of classical choral music in turn, and, occasionally giving -concerts independently, often joined forces in public performance with -the orchestra. The Singakademie, founded in 1858 by a circle of -amateurs, made a special point of early church music, and of _a capella_ -singing, but usually devoted one of its three or four annual concerts to -the performance of an oratorio or other great work, when, of course, the -services of an orchestra were engaged. Under the direction of its first -conductor, F. Stegmayer, the Singakademie gave the first performance in -Vienna of portions of Schumann's 'Faust' (January 6, 1861) and of Bach's -'Matthew Passion' (April 15, 1862). - -Occupying a position in Vienna at the very top of his profession, partly -in virtue of the musical prestige attaching to his family name, but -mainly as the result of his personal gifts and attainments, was the -violinist Josef Hellmesberger, director and professor of the -conservatoire (itself another branch of the great Gesellschaft der -Musikfreunde), concertmeister of the opera, and therefore also of the -Philharmonic concerts, late artistic director of the Gesellschaft -(1851-1859), leader of the only resident and justly celebrated string -quartet party called by his name, and accomplished virtuoso. -Hellmesberger's playing lacked broadness of tone, but was distinguished -by grace, poetic sentiment, and a facile instinct for his composer's -intention. He possessed a good knowledge of the orchestra, and was a -fair pianist. - -Of other musicians resident in the Austrian capital in 1862 are to be -mentioned the great contrapuntist Sechter, nearly approaching the end of -his career, who, in his position of professor of composition at the -conservatoire, had in his time taught several of the younger men next to -be referred to; Nottebohm, professor of counterpoint at the -conservatoire, known to the world by his writings on music, especially -those on Beethoven's sketch-books; Rudolph Bibl, organist of the -cathedral, and later, of the imperial chapel; Julius Epstein, professor -of the pianoforte at the conservatoire, distinguished pianist and -widely-reputed teacher, and esteemed, not only on account of his -professional standing, but also by reason of his kindness to all persons -having any sort of claim on his courtesy. - -The composer Carl Goldmark, who has since attained European reputation -with his opera 'The Queen of Sheba,' had been almost entirely resident -in Vienna since his sixteenth year, and now at thirty was rising to -fame. Peter Cornelius, composer of the comic opera 'The Barber of -Bagdad,' and already mentioned in our narrative as a disciple of Weimar, -was living at this time in the Austrian capital. Anton Brückner was -favourably esteemed by some of the first resident musicians, though he -had not yet been called there. Carl Tausig, one of the greatest of -pianoforte virtuosi, whose sympathies were much with the New-Germans, -settled in Vienna for a few years from 1861, and gave occasional -concerts there which were but partially successful. - -Of writers and critics, Edward Hanslick, Carl Ferdinand Pohl, and Selmar -Bagge, all believers in the art of tradition and in its modern -development as represented by the name of Schumann, were in the flower -of their activity. Bagge's name is interesting in the history of Brahms' -career on account of the sympathetic and detailed reviews of the -composer's works which appeared from time to time in the _Deutsche -Musikzeitung_, a paper founded by him in 1860. It became defunct at the -close of 1863, when Bagge left Vienna to take up the editorship of the -_Allgemeine Musikzeitung_, which he retained for two years. Very able -articles were published in this periodical of Brahms' works as they -appeared, some of them written by Bagge himself, and others by Hermann -Deiters, a musical scholar and critic of exceptional insight and power -of happy expression. Bagge remained just long enough in Vienna to -witness the interest aroused by Brahms' first appearances there, to -which, very likely, the remembrance of the articles of the _Deutsche -Musikzeitung_ gave additional stimulus. - -Of publishers, the name of C. A. Spina should be gratefully remembered -as that of the man to whom the world is indebted for the publication of -many great and long-neglected works of Schubert. A large number of the -master's half-forgotten manuscripts--those of the Octet, the C major -Quartet, the B flat and B minor Symphonies amongst them--were found by -Spina when he took over the business of his predecessors, the firm of -Diabelli, and were gradually placed by him in the possession of the -world. - -On his arrival in Vienna, Brahms put up at the Hôtel Kronprinz in the -Leopoldstadt, moving soon afterwards into a room at 39, Novaragasse, of -the same inexpensive quarter, then called the Jägerzeil. Several of his -old friends were fortunately at hand. Grädener had given up his position -in Hamburg the preceding year to try his fortune in Vienna; Frau -Passy-Cornet, whose name calls the concert of 1848 to remembrance, was -now a professor of singing at the Vienna Conservatoire; and, a very few -weeks after Brahms' arrival, Arthur Faber, lately married to Fräulein -Bertha Porubszky, brought his bride to their home in the imperial city. -His house was, of course, open to Johannes, who spent many, and -especially Sunday, evenings with these friends. Amongst the most -treasured memories of their early wedded life are those of performances -of his compositions, played as he could play when quietly at ease with a -few sympathetic friends for all audience. - -From the first he felt at home in Vienna. The good-natured, easy-going -Austrian people attracted him, and he at once conceived an affection for -the Prater, in the immediate vicinity of which his hotel was situated. -This great park of the Kaiserstadt contains, indeed, attractions to suit -every variety of taste. There is the Hauptallée, with its broad drive -and shady walks, its open-air cafés and music of military bands, which -play waltzes and various dance movements as they are played in no other -city. There is the Würstelprater, the playground of children and other -simple folk, where, in the fine-weather season, a continual fair goes -on with shows and games and entertainments of every kind likely to -attract the patronage of the multitude, and where in the Hungarian -restaurant, the 'Czarda,' real gipsy music played by a real gipsy band -may daily be heard. There is the wild portion, bounded on one side by -the Danube canal and stretching for some little distance beyond the -town, where the solitary walker may fancy himself in a forest far from -human habitation. Brahms, on this occasion of his first visit to Vienna, -particularly attached himself to the Würstelprater, for which he ever -after retained his partiality. The motley life to be seen there amused -and interested him. He came to be a frequent listener at the 'Czarda,' -and it is whispered that the spirit of fun has occasionally prompted -him, when at the height of his fame, to prevail upon a party of friends -to take a turn in his company on the curvetting horses of one or other -of the 'carrousels' which are amongst the most popular attractions of -this part of the grounds. - -One of Brahms' first visits was to Julius Epstein. He did not send in -his name, and, as the professor was engaged with someone else at the -moment, was not admitted. A second call was successful. 'My name is -Johannes Brahms,' he said as he entered; and his simple manner at once -attracted Epstein, who was well acquainted with his published works. An -opportunity was arranged without delay for his introduction to some of -the leading musicians of the city. - - 'Brahms in 1862 played the Quartets in G minor and A major with the - members of the Hellmesberger Quartet (Hellmesberger, Dobyhal and - Röver) at my house in the Schulerstrasse, in the first place,' - writes Professor Epstein to the author. 'We were all delighted and - carried away. The works were shortly afterwards played in public by - Brahms with the same colleagues.' - -The G minor Quartet was, in fact, included in the list of works -announced by Hellmesberger for the ensuing season, and the immediate -interest awakened in musical circles by the arrival of the composer is -even more strikingly testified by the fact that on October 14, only -five weeks after his departure from Hamburg, the name of the orchestral -Serenade in D major appeared in the forecast of the Gesellschaft season -published in the _Blätter für Theater, Künst und Musik_. - -On Sunday evening, November 16, Brahms made his first appearance before -his new public at Hellmesberger's Quartet concert, which took place, as -usual, in the Vereinsaal (the concert-room of the Gesellschaft der -Musikfreunde) before an audience that crowded every part of the house in -anticipation of the début in Vienna of 'Schumann's young prophet.' The -first and last numbers of the programme of three works were severally -Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E flat and Beethoven's in C sharp minor, -Op. 131, Brahms' G minor Pianoforte Quartet occupying the place of -honour between them. If we were to judge of the result by the press -reviews of the day, which were either unfavourable or reserved, it would -be impossible to chronicle a success, and yet that the work was -essentially successful is established by the fact that the composer -received overtures after the concert from more than one Vienna -publisher, which, however, he declined. He had certainly made his mark -in his own characteristic way even before the 16th. A private circle of -admirers began to form round him, and he was sufficiently encouraged to -venture on a concert of his own, which took place in the Vereinsaal on -November 29. - -On this occasion the Pianoforte Quartet in A major headed the programme, -the composer being assisted in its performance by the three members of -the Hellmesberger party with whom he had already appeared. The remaining -instrumental numbers were pianoforte solos, the concert-giver's Handel -Variations and Fugue, Bach's F major Toccata for organ, and Schumann's C -major Fantasia, Op. 17. - -As regards the general audience, the concert was an unmistakable -success. The room was fairly filled, and enough money taken to cover -expenses. This, however, by the way. The circumstance most worthy of -record is that artist and public found themselves _en rapport_. The -performer had the infallible instinct of having with him the sympathy of -his hearers, and played his best, giving out what was really in him as -he had probably never been able to do before his indifferent or -sceptical audiences in Germany. A friendly reception was accorded to the -quartet, which was followed with close attention. Enthusiasm could -scarcely have been looked for on a first hearing of so original a work. -The variations and fugue, however, called forth a storm of applause that -was renewed after the performance of Schumann's fantasia, the divine -last movement of which was given with ideal insight and noble -inspiration. The press notices, though respectful, were disappointing in -regard to Brahms the composer. - - 'The quartet by no means pleased us, and we are glad that the - unfavourable impression it created was obliterated by the - variations which followed....' Hanslick wrote (_die Presse_). - 'Brahms' talent has hitherto been displayed at its best in - variation form, which requires, above all, facility in inventing - figures, and unity of mood.... The unsatisfactory features of his - creative style are more apparent in the quartet. The first subject - has not enough significance. The composer chooses themes rather - with a view to their capacity for contrapuntal treatment than on - account of their intrinsic merit, and those of the quartet sound - dry and flat.... The quartet and others of the composer's works - remind us of Schumann's last period; the early works of his first - period; but none of Brahms' yet known compositions can take their - place beside those of Schumann's ripe middle period.' - -As a pianist, Brahms was mentioned in the papers in more decided terms -of appreciation. Bagge says: - - 'We have to bestow high praise not only on the enormous technical - acquirement, but also on a performance instinct with musical - genius, on a treatment of the instrument as fascinating as it was - original.' - -The playing of Bach's organ toccata is especially mentioned in terms of -high admiration; the touch employed for the passages written for the -pedals 'gave the pianoforte the effect of an organ.' The performance of -each number was musical through and through, and although 'he has not -the unfailing certainty nor the outward brilliancy of the virtuoso, he -reaches and fascinates his audience by other means.' - -The delightful natural letter to his parents, published by Reimann, -written after the concert, shows the pleasure derived by Brahms from -feeling his audience in sympathy with him: - - 'DEAR PARENTS, - - 'I was very happy yesterday, my concert went quite excellently, - much better than I had hoped. - - 'After the quartet had been sympathetically received, I had great - success as a player. Every number was greatly applauded, I think - there was real enthusiasm in the room. - - 'Now I could very well give concerts, but I do not wish to do so, - for it takes up too much time so that I can do nothing else.... - - 'I played as freely as though I were sitting at home with friends; - one is certainly influenced quite differently by the public than by - ours. - - 'You should have seen the attention and seen and heard the - applause.... I am very glad I gave the concert. You are probably - rid of your guests again now and will be able to find a moment of - time to write to me? - - 'Tell the contents of this letter to Herr Marxsen and say also that - Börsendorfer[1] will not be able to send a piano before the New - Year as so many are required for concerts. Shall I see about - another for him? I await orders.... - - 'I think my serenade will be given next Monday. - - 'I should have liked to introduce some of my vocal things in my - concert yesterday, but it gave me a terrible amount of running - about and unpleasantness and that is one of my reasons for wishing - to be quiet now.[2] - - 'Did you sit together on Wednesday over the egg-punch? Write to me - about it and anything else.[3] - - 'The publishers here, especially Spina and Levi, have been pressing - me for things since the quartet, but much pleases me better in - North Germany and particularly the publishers, and I would rather - go without the two or three extra Louis-d'ors that these would - perhaps pay. - - 'Does Avé often go to see you? Has he told you anything particular - about Stockhausen? - - 'How about the photograph of the girls' quartet? Am I not to have - it? N.B. Every time I write I forget to ask about Fritz.... Is he - very industrious? He ought to make up his mind to give Trio - concerts in Hamburg next winter. I would help him in every way.... - - 'Write soon and have love - 'from your - 'JOHANNES. - - 'Hearty greetings to Herr Marxsen, and do not forget about - Börsendorfer.'[4] - -The two Pianoforte Quartets were despatched to Simrock, and were -published by the firm early in 1863--the first one in G minor, being -dedicated to Baron Reinhard von Dalwigk, Court Intendant to the -Grand-Duke of Oldenburg, a really musical amateur and a warm supporter -of Brahms; and the second, in A major, to Frau Dr. Elisabeth Rösing of -Hamm, in whose house it was written. - -The tone of the above extracts tells how lovingly the composer's -thoughts turned to his home at the moment he was feeling conscious of a -real success; and the question about Stockhausen may be taken as an -indication of the clinging wistfulness with which he was bringing -himself to resign the hope of being able to settle near his family as -conductor of the Philharmonic--a position he would at the time have been -proud to accept. The decision of the committee was now almost a foregone -conclusion, though it was not formally arrived at till the following -year. What it was may be told in the following extract from a letter -written to Avé Lallement on January 31, 1863, by Joachim, whose -influence with the committee had been energetically exerted in favour of -his Johannes: - - '... What can I say further about your plan with Stockhausen? You - know how highly I esteem his talent, and he is certainly the best - musician among the singers, but how anyone, having to choose the - director of a concert institution between him and Johannes, can - decide for the former, I, with my limited musical understanding, - cannot comprehend! It is precisely as a man upon whom one can rely - that I regard Johannes so highly, with his gifts and his will! - There is nothing he cannot undertake, and, with his earnestness, - overcome! You know that as well as I, and if all of you in the - committee and orchestra had met him with confidence and affection - (as you, his friend, always do in private) instead of with doubt - and airs of protection, it would have removed the asperity from his - nature; whereas it must constantly make him more bitter, with his - touching, almost childlike patriotism for Hamburg, to see himself - put second. I dare not dwell on the thought, it would make me too - unhappy, that his narrow compatriots have deprived themselves of - the means of making him more contented and gentle, and happier in - the exercise of his genius. I should like to give the committee a - moral cudgelling (and a bodily one too!) for having left you in the - lurch with your plan. The slight to Johannes will not be forgotten - in the history of art! But basta!'[5] - -To the advertisement of the Hamburg Philharmonic programme of March 6, -1863, the words were added, 'Herr Julius Stockhausen has kindly -undertaken to conduct the second and third numbers'; and a fortnight -later Stockhausen's appointment as capellmeister to the society for the -following season, 1863-64, was announced. - -Meanwhile Johannes in Vienna may still, in the beginning of November, -1862, have clung to hope in view of the forthcoming performance of his -serenade at the Gesellschaft concert of the 14th under Herbeck. The -reception of the work proved, in fact, as favourable as might reasonably -have been expected. It was listened to with respect by public and -critics, and some of its parts, notably the first minuet, were greeted -with manifestations of decided approval. - -'The serenade, a fine, interesting, and intellectual work, deserved -warmer acknowledgment,' wrote Speidel in the _Wiener Zeitung_. -Hanslick, in the _Presse_, pronounced it one of the most charming of -modern orchestral compositions, but took exception to the first subject -of the opening movement, as he had objected to that of the A major -Quartet, as being workable rather than original or significant. - - 'The first minuet seems to us the pearl of the work and perhaps the - prettiest movement as yet written by Brahms. The instrumental - colouring and the grace of the melody give it the characteristic of - night music, and it is full of moonlight and the scent of lilac.' - -A remarkable review--remarkable from its admirable appreciation of -Brahms' creative personality--was despatched to Leipzig by the Vienna -correspondent of the _Neue Zeitschrift_, who signs himself 'S.,' and -appeared in the Vienna résumé contained in the paper's issue of March -23: - - 'As regards Brahms' serenade which has been favourably received, - albeit in my opinion too severely criticised, only thus much; it is - one of the most charming examples, not only of the class of - composition from which it has sprung, but of all that has followed - Beethoven up to the comprehensive conquests, as to contents and - form, of the rising New Germany. - - 'It is fresh and rich in themes of which nearly every one is - pervaded by a rare grace, and a brightness of tone becoming every - day more unusual. The score convincingly exhibits, moreover, one of - the most prominent sides of Brahms' musical individuality. I would - call this a power of refashioning, in the best spirit of the - present day, the contrapuntal forms of canon and fugue and of their - degenerate and inferior representatives. Brahms succeeds in this, - as in the majority of his works, in reconsecrating and carrying on - the spiritual treasure inherited from Bach, Beethoven and Schumann, - in the light of modernity. This fundamental characteristic is still - more striking in a second great work of the composer, for the - hearing of which opportunity is promised. I will therefore go on to - remark on the orchestral colouring of the serenade, which, without - being exaggerated, is, throughout, fresh and significant of - youthful power. I should find it very difficult to express a - preference for either of the six movements, whilst to speak of - either of the several parts of this, in its way, masterly whole as - inferior in excellence to others, appears to me utterly impossible. - The _vox populi_, however, with which the principal journals here - coincide on this occasion, has pronounced in favour of the first - minuet and scherzo and the certainly wonderfully tender slow - movement.' - -Brahms appeared on December 20 at Frau Passy-Cornet's concert in the -Vereinsaal, playing Beethoven's E flat Sonata for pianoforte and violin -with Hellmesberger, and some Schumann solos (Romance and Novelette), -and, in spite of his frequently avowed distaste for public appearances, -gave a second concert on January 6, 1863, in order to bring forward some -of his songs. On this occasion he played Bach's Chromatic Fantasia, -Beethoven's C minor Variations, his own Sonata in F minor Op. 5, and -Schumann's Sonata in the same key Op. 14, with omission of the scherzo. - - 'Brahms' playing,' wrote the Vienna correspondent of the _Signale_, - 'is always attractive and convincing. His rendering of Bach's - Chromatic Fantasia and of Beethoven's Variations was of the highest - interest.... After repeated recalls Brahms treated his audience to - another piece, a four-hand march by Schubert arranged for two - hands. The delightful freshness of this composition gave no little - pleasure.' - -Frau Wilt, one of the first resident singers, performed several of the -concert-giver's songs, amongst them being 'Treue Liebe' (Op. 7, No. 1), -'Parole' (Op. 7, No. 2), and 'Liebestreue' ('O versenk,' Op. 3, No. 1). - - 'This new experience was most agreeable and welcome to the whole - public. All these songs breathe a fine sensibility, and are full of - truth to life and nature.' - -This second concert, indeed, stamped Brahms' visit to Vienna with the -seal of decisive and permanent success--a success not immediately wide -or popular, but which marked the beginning of a new epoch in the musical -life of the city. Though he could not stoop to the attempt to dazzle his -public by phenomenal feats of virtuosity, the grace, tenderness, and -truth of his musical nature appealed to his southern audience, whilst -the significance of his genius dawned on the perception of one or two -discerning musicians. In a word, he had found a public which partially -understood him; and a performance of the second serenade was announced -for one of the Philharmonic concerts. - -Before the opening of the New Year, musical attention in Vienna was -turned to Richard Wagner, who conducted three concerts devoted to -selections from his own compositions, and was received and discussed -with the extremes of enthusiasm and disapproval that usually attended -his appearances and the early productions of his works. - - 'One evening,' writes Hanslick many years later,[6] 'when we - listened to Brahms' sextet after attending a concert of excerpts - from Wagner's "Tristan" in the afternoon, it was as though we were - suddenly transported to a world of pure beauty.[7] ... The general - impression made in public by the two men was almost as different as - that of their music. Brahms approached the conductor's desk with - almost awkward modesty; he responded reluctantly and doubtfully to - the most stormy calls and could not disappear again quickly - enough.' - -The attraction felt by Hanslick for Brahms' art increased with each -opportunity of becoming acquainted with it. He secured his services as -pianist at a lecture on Beethoven--one of a series--given by him in -January, when Johannes, whose pianistic répertoire was almost -inexhaustible, performed the thirty-three Variations on a waltz by -Diabelli. - -Wagner remained at Penzing, a suburb of Vienna, until the spring, and -Brahms, who was on cordial terms with Tausig and Cornelius, paid him a -visit in Tausig's company. He was much pleased by Wagner's reception of -him, and spoke heartily of the pleasure he had found in his society. -There was no future personal intercourse between the two composers, who -were too widely separated by disposition, tastes, and artistic faith to -grow into intimacy, though it should never be forgotten that Brahms -felt, from first to last, immense respect for Wagner's gifts and -achievement. - -One of our composer's engrossing occupations during his nearly eight -months' stay in Vienna was the study of Schubert's manuscripts, which -Spina was delighted to show him, generously allowing him to copy from -them for his own pleasure as he felt inclined. Shortly before his return -home he sent some of the treasures thus obtained for Dietrich's perusal. - - '... It occurs to me that I can send you my Marienlieder and - Variations for four hands which arrived lately, and I enclose with - them some extracts from an Easter cantata of Schubert's which I - copied from the manuscript. They are not specially selected - portions of Lazarus. By no means; I merely wrote the beginning and - end of the first part. The music is as fine throughout; Simon's - aria--oh, if I could send you the whole, you would be enchanted - with such loveliness!...' - -He decides to send in the same parcel, for Albert's inspection, the -string quintet which he had taken to Vienna to get quite to his liking. - -The second Serenade was announced for the Philharmonic concert of March -8 as the opening number of the programme, to be followed by Joachim's -Hungarian Concerto, with Laub as solo violinist, and this by a new -symphony by M. Kässmeyer--an astonishingly progressive list, which was -due to Dessoff's influence and was approvingly remarked upon by Hanslick -in his review of the 11th of the month. Meanwhile difficulties presented -themselves.[8] The discontent of the members of the orchestra was -apparent during the first rehearsals of Brahms' work; complaints were -heard of the great difficulty of performing many of the passages, and at -the general rehearsal open mutiny broke out. The first clarinettist -suddenly rose, and, in the name of the body of instrumentalists, -declared their refusal to perform the composition. Dessoff, white with -agitation, instantly replied by laying down his bâton and announcing his -resignation of the post of conductor; Hellmesberger, as concertmeister, -followed suit, and the first flutist, Franz Doppler, a celebrated -performer, joined them. This decided matters. The malcontents gave way, -the rehearsal proceeded, and the performance on the 8th was so greatly -appreciated by the public that R. Hirsch, who made his début as Brahms' -critic in the _Wiener Zeitung_ in connexion with the occasion, and who -for many years systematically (and perhaps conscientiously) decried his -works, could find nothing worse to say than that the serenade would find -many friends amongst those able to content themselves with modest gifts. - - 'Brahms should be on his guard against excess of things. The - exorbitant applause raised by his friends had the effect of - procuring him very loud hisses from other parties.' - - 'If either of the younger composers has the right not to be - ignored, it is Brahms,' wrote Hanslick. 'He has shown himself, in - each of his lately-performed works, as an independent, original - individuality, a finely-organized, true, musical nature, as an - artist ripening towards mastership by means of unwearied, conscious - endeavour. His A major Serenade is the younger, tender sister of - the one in D lately produced by the Gesellschaft and is conceived - in the same peaceful, dreamy garden mood.... The work had an - extremely favourable reception. The hearty applause became - proportionately greater at the close as the modest composer made - himself ever smaller in his seat in the gallery.' - -Hanslick pronounced the Hungarian Concerto - - 'a tone-poem full of mind and spirit, of energy and tenderness. One - might almost regret Joachim's achievements as a virtuoso, which - must be the only cause that his powers are so seldom concentrated - on the composition of a great work.' - -The music season was now coming to a close, but the many attractions of -Vienna--and not least among them its beautiful neighbourhood, with which -Brahms' frequent long walks with Nottebohm, Faber, Epstein, and others -gradually made him familiar--inclined him to stay on for some weeks -longer; and it was not until the spring had well set in that he set out -for Hanover _en route_ for Hamburg, carrying with him many new -possessions as mementoes of his visit, engravings of some of his -favourite pictures in the Belvedere Gallery,[9] and the entire -collection of the then published works of Schubert, presented to him by -Spina, being the principal. He had a particular reason for wishing to -pass a day or two with his friend. He was to be introduced to Fräulein -Amalie Weiss, to whom Joachim had lately become engaged. This lady had -entered into a three years' engagement as first contralto on the stage -of the Hanover court opera in the spring of 1862, and it was not long -before her gifts attracted the enthusiastic interest of the celebrated -court concertmeister of the same capital. The two artists were betrothed -in February, 1863, and the birthday of the Queen of Hanover, April 14, -was celebrated by a festival performance of Gluck's 'Orpheus,' -conducted, by Her Majesty's express desire, by Joachim, in which -Fräulein Weiss appeared with brilliant success in the title-rôle. -Brahms, on his arrival a little later on, was a delighted witness of a -repetition of the opera. Frau Amalie Joachim, who retired from the stage -on her marriage (June, 1863), gradually acquired a very great reputation -as a concert-singer, and was a much-admired interpreter of Brahms' -songs. - -Brahms returned to Hamburg on May 5, and, after passing his thirtieth -birthday with his family, took a lodging at Blankenese, on the Elbe, -where an unexpected meeting with some of the former members of his -Ladies' Choir agreeably reminded him of the charming society that had -now quite fallen through, having served its purpose in the composer's -course of self-training. Various plans for work and recreation for the -summer and autumn months were under consideration, but were to be set -aside. Before the month was out, Brahms received a convincing proof of -the impression his visit had made in Vienna by getting a call to return -there. The post of conductor to the Singakademie had fallen vacant by -the death of Stegmayer, and, at the general meeting of the society in -the course of May, Brahms was elected successor to the post. There was a -severe competition between two sections of the members, a large and -influential party, led by Prince Constantin Czartoriska, being strongly -in favour of the election of Franz Krenn, an excellent musician of the -old school, who belonged to Vienna as choir-master of the parish church -of St. Michael, and professor of composition at the conservatoire, and -who had conducted one of the Singakademie concerts during Stegmayer's -illness. It happened, however, that amongst those members of the -committee who desired that the practices and performances of the society -should be placed under the direction of a young, resolute, and energetic -musician, were several gentlemen belonging to the circle of enthusiastic -admirers of Brahms' art which had sprung into existence almost -simultaneously with his first appearance in Vienna, and had increased -with each opportunity that had offered itself there for the hearing of -his music. Amongst them were Dr. Scholz, a surgeon; Herr Adolf Schultz, -a merchant; and Herr Franz Flatz, an insurance official of Vienna; and -at their head Dr. Josef Gänsbacher, son of the distinguished musician -and church composer Johann Gänsbacher, the pupil of Vogler and -Albrechtsberger, acquaintance of Haydn and Beethoven, friend of Weber -and Meyerbeer, and capellmeister of the cathedral from 1823 until his -death in 1844. - -Dr. Josef Gänsbacher, whose name has become known in the musical world -of many countries by its appearance on the title-page of Brahms' first -sonata for pianoforte and violoncello, was, in 1863, a young doctor of -jurisprudence and advocate's draughtsman. Later on he adopted music as a -profession, and became a valued teacher of singing, professor at the -conservatoire, and violoncellist. He was one of Brahms' earliest and -truest friends in Vienna, and became a devotee of his art even before -making his personal acquaintance. He had considerable influence with the -members of the Singakademie, and representatives of both sections of the -committee called on him at his bureau to solicit his help, Prince -Czartoriska presenting himself in person in Krenn's favour. Gänsbacher's -sympathies, however, were all the other way; and, being selected by his -party to make a speech at the general meeting in Brahms' interest, he -used such forcible arguments as to bring over several of Krenn's -supporters and to win the election for his own side by a majority of -one. - -It was in every way characteristic of our composer that he could not at -once decide either to accept or reject the offer of the appointment, and -was only at length brought to a resolution by a telegraphic request for -his final answer. - - 'The resolve to give away one's freedom for the first time is - exceptional,' he wrote to the committee, 'but anything coming from - Vienna sounds doubly pleasant to a musician and whatever may call - him thither is doubly attractive.'[10] - -Something of what it cost Brahms to send his affirmative decision may be -perceived in a letter to Hanslick, which indicates, also, the quick -advance of friendship between the two men: - - 'DEAR FRIEND, - - 'You will wonder that most glad and grateful reply has not arrived - sooner to yours and many other kind letters received by me. I seem - to myself as one who has been praised beyond desert, and should - like to creep into hiding for awhile. I resolved, on receipt of the - telegraphic despatch ... to be content with such a flattering - summons and not to tempt the gods further ... and since nothing - more is in question than whether I have the courage to say "yes," - it shall be so. Had I refused, my reasons would not have been - understood by the academy or by you Viennese generally....' - -These occurrences put an end to the various holiday projects which -Brahms had been considering. 'I cannot make up my mind to deprive my -parents of any of our short time together,' he wrote in answer to -Dietrich's pressing invitation, and remained quietly near and at -Hamburg. He began at once to occupy himself with plans for his -programmes, and begged Dietrich's advice 'as a very experienced and -learned court-conductor' on matters connected with his new duties. 'I -feel enormously diffident,' he says, 'about trying my talent for these -things in Vienna.' - -Allowing himself but three days _en route_ for a visit to beautiful -Lichtenthal, a suburb of Baden-Baden, where Frau Schumann had purchased -a house the previous year on giving up her residence in Berlin, Brahms -was back again in Vienna by the last week of August, and soon engaged -with characteristic earnestness in work connected with his new -appointment. His scheme for the weekly practices of the Singakademie -season included works by Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and -masters of the earlier period whose music was a speciality of the -society. The first concert of the season 1863-64, given on November 15 -under his direction, presented the following programme: - - 1. Bach: Cantata, 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmerniss.' - (First time in Vienna.) - - 2. Beethoven: 'Opferlied.' - - 3. H. Isaak (late - 15th cent.): Three German Folk-songs-- - _a._ 'Innsbruck ich muss dich lassen.' - _b._ 'Es ist ein Schnitter heisst der Tod.' - _c._ 'Ich fahr dahin wenn es muss seyn.' - - 4. Schumann: 'Requiem für Mignon.' (First time in Vienna.) - -The co-operating artists were Frau Wilt and Frau Ferrari; Herr Danzer, -Herr Dalfy, and Herr Organist Bibl. No doubt could be felt at the close -of the performances of Brahms' gifts as a conductor. - - 'The concert was not only excellent in itself, but was, with - exception of the first performance in Vienna of Bach's "Matthew - Passion," by far the most noteworthy achievement in the record of - the Singakademie, and gave us the opportunity of recognising - Brahms' rare talent as a conductor.' - -Bach's cantata was rendered 'with splendid colouring and spiritual -insight'; the three delightful Volkslieder 'opened all hearts.' These -were received with such stormy applause that a fourth, not less -acceptable, was added. Considerable surprise seems to have been -excited, not by the conductor's inspired conception of the works -performed, but by the precision and clearness of his beat, which, -remarks one critic, - - 'could hardly have been expected of an artist who has shown - himself, in his creations and performances, so essentially a - romanticist and dreamer.' - -These last words sound strange as coming from a writer in Vienna who may -be supposed to have gained some knowledge of the serenades, the B flat -sextet, and the two pianoforte quartets, and they are quoted, not -because of their aptness, but as illustrating a difficulty which the -composer's individuality, reflected in his works as in a mirror, caused -for many a long year to some of his less competent, even though -friendly, critics--the difficulty of knowing how to classify him. From -an early period his determination was strong to bring the womanly -tenderness and dreamy romance that were in him under the complete -control of his energetic will, to give supreme dominance in art, as in -life, to understanding rather than to emotion, to possess and be master -of his powers; but, during the earlier years of his activity, the subtle -poetic charm dwelling within his works made itself felt by many -sympathetic listeners who could not immediately follow their -closely-woven texture, and who were puzzled by his independent -treatment--at times almost amounting to a re-creation--of traditional -form. Hence, he has not seldom been spoken of as essentially a -romanticist long since his position as the representative descendant of -Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven was recognised by those most competent to -judge. - -Meanwhile his art was gradually spreading through Europe. On November 10 -the first serenade was given at Zürich under Fichtelberger, the -conductor of the subscription concerts. The work deserved a warmer -reception than was accorded it, in the opinion of the _Neuer Zürcher -Zeitung_, whose critic recognised in Brahms a composer, not only of -profound knowledge, but of inborn genius. He did not commit himself to -pronouncement as to whether the composer's creative power would be of -sufficient force to discover really 'new paths,' or would prove better -qualified for making further developments within the already conquered -domain of musical art, but thought the serenade pointed to the latter -probability. - -The B flat Sextet was performed at a concert given in Hamburg in -November by Rosé and Stockhausen, whose friendship with Brahms had not -been allowed to suffer by the action of the Philharmonic committee. The -composition was given in Vienna at the Hellmesberger concert of December -27, when it awakened extraordinary interest and sympathy. In the -Austrian capital, as elsewhere, it was the first of the composer's -important works to become popular. - -Christmas Eve was passed with the Fabers, Brahms being, as ever, the -most cordial, happy, childlike guest. He continued, during the first -years of his subsequent residence in Vienna, to spend the festival with -these friends, who took pains to invite his favourite companions to meet -him. Nottebohm was always of the party. Amongst his presents one -Christmas for the gift-making ceremony at home in Hamburg, was a -sewing-machine for his sister, who had expressed a wish for such a -possession as a help in her employment. After the lapse of a few -seasons, however, Brahms for a great many years habitually declined all -invitations for Christmas Eve, only breaking his rule by occasionally -spending it with Frau Schumann. Within the last decade of his life he -again changed his custom, and passed the evening regularly in the happy -home circle of some friends to whom the reader will be introduced in a -later chapter. - -The second and third concerts of the Singakademie took place on January -6 and March 20, with the subjoined programmes: - - PROGRAMME OF JANUARY 6. - - 1. Mendelssohn: Eight-part Motet. - - 2. Joh. Eccard (1553-1611): 'The Christian's Easter - Day Song of Triumph' - (double chorus). - - 3. Heinrich Schütz (1583-1672): 'Saul's Conversion' - (triple chorus). - - 4. Giov. Gabrielli (1557-1613): 'Benedictus' (double - chorus). - - 5. Giov. Rovetta (1643-1668): 'Salve Regina.' - - 6. Beethoven: 'Elegischer Gesang' (chorus - with string accompaniment). - 7. Three German Folk-songs. - - 8. J. S. Bach: Motet, 'Liebster Gott wann - werd' ich sterben.' - - PROGRAMME OF MARCH 20. - - J. S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio. (First performance in Vienna.) - - With the assistance of the Imperial and Royal Court-Opera Orchestra. - -They do not seem to have been so successful as the first. The public -found the programme of January 6 monotonous. Hirsch, in his notice of -the concert in the _Wiener Zeitung_, goes so far as to speak of -'shipwreck,' while Hanslick himself owns that the performance of the -earlier numbers had the 'character of an improvisation or a practice -rather than a concert production.' The three German folk-songs (the two -last harmonized by Brahms) were so warmly received that the conductor's -Minnelied, 'Der Holdseliger' was given in addition. The success of the -Bach cantata was injured by a contretemps. The Börsendorfer piano, sent -in the absence of an organ, was too high in pitch and therefore -unavailable. - -The concert of March 20, at which the Christmas Oratorio was given, -seems to have been rather overshadowed by the performance of Bach's 'St. -John's Passion' by the Gesellschaft forces at a somewhat earlier date. - -The satisfaction and confidence extended to the conductor by the -Akademie remained undiminished, however, by the falling-off in the -success of the second and third public performances, and were expressed -at the close of the subscription season by the arrangement of an extra -concert devoted to Brahms' compositions. The instrumental numbers on -this occasion were the B flat Sextet, played by the Hellmesberger party, -and a Sonata for two pianofortes--in reality the arrangement in this -form of the manuscript string quintet with two violoncelli, to which -reference has already been made. Tausig, a great admirer of Brahms' -genius, who took the Paganini Variations under his especial care later -on, was the composer's colleague in the performance, for which, -therefore, every advantage was secured; but Brahms had not yet, as it -seemed, found the right medium for the expression of his thoughts. The -sonata fell flat, making no impression on the audience. There were -several vocal numbers, and amongst them was the charming 'Wechsellied -zum Tanze,' No. 1 of the three Quartets for solo voices, Op. 31, which -stand in an anticipatory relation to the 'Liebeslieder.' They show -Brahms in his graceful, playful, genial mood. The 'Wechsellied' is in -dance measure, and has two alternative melodies severally adapted to the -character of Goethe's verses--the first in E flat, allotted to the -contralto and bass, the 'indifferent' pair; the second in A flat, to the -soprano and tenor, the 'tender' pair. Brahms has delightfully expressed -the difference of mood animating the two couples, and, by the simple -device of writing the first of the two little duets in imitation, the -bass following the contralto at a bar's distance, has suggested a tone -of bright enjoyment which contrasts effectively with the romantic spirit -of the lovers' song. The four voices combine towards the close of the -composition, which comes to an end in the key of the lover's melody. - - ALTERNATIVE DANCE SONG BY GOETHE. - - THE INDIFFERENT PAIR. - - Come, fairest maid, come with me to the dancing; - Dancing belongs to our festival day. - Though not my sweetheart, yet that may soon follow, - Follows it never, then let us still dance. - Come, fairest maid, come with me to the dancing; - Dancing belongs to our festival day. - - THE TENDER PAIR. - - Loved one, without thee what were there in pleasure? - Sweet one, without thee what joy in the dance? - If not my sweetheart, what care I for dancing? - Art thou it ever, then life is a feast. - Loved one, without thee what were there in pleasure? - Sweet one, without thee what joy in the dance? - - THE INDIFFERENT PAIR. - - Let them go loving and let us go dancing! - Languishing love careth not for the dance. - Circle we gaily amid the gay couples, - Wander the others in forest's dim shade. - Let them go loving and let us go dancing, - Languishing love careth not for the dance. - - THE TENDER PAIR. - - Let them go twirling and let us go wander! - Wand'ring of lovers is heaven's own dance. - Cupid is near, and he hears them deriding, - Certain and swift he will have his revenge. - Let them go twirling and let us go wander, - Wand'ring of lovers is heaven's own dance. - -No. 2 of the same opus--'Neckereien' (Raillery), the text of which is a -Moorish folk-song, is full of graceful fun. In this the tenors and -basses alternate with the sopranos and contraltos; the youths court the -girls, who will rather be transformed into little doves, little fishes, -little hares, than have anything to do with them. The suitors, on the -other hand, hint that such changes may be of small avail against little -guns, little nets, little dogs. - -No. 3, also set to a national text, this time Bohemian, is a charming -four-part song, with a graceful accompaniment in waltz rhythm, and is -developed from the melody used by Brahms in No. 5 of his set of waltzes -for pianoforte. These quartets were composed at Detmold. - -On May 10 the annual foundation concert of the Singakademie took -place--as usual, before a private audience. The programme will be -perused with interest by English-speaking readers: - - 1. Schumann: First and second movements from - 'Requiem für Mignon.' - - 2. Haydn: Duet for Soprano and Tenor. - - 3. Schumann: Stücke im Volkston for Violoncello - and Pianoforte. - - 4. John Bennet (1599): Madrigal (for chorus). - - 5. John Morley (1595): Dance Song (for chorus). - - 6. Schumann: Two Duets from the 'Spanisches - Liederspiel.' - - 7. Brahms: Two Songs for Soprano. - - 8. Schumann: Fifth and sixth movements from the - 'Requiem für Mignon.' - -The fourth and fifth numbers of the programme were no doubt selected by -Brahms from a collection of early English madrigals, edited by J. J. -Maier of Munich. - -Our composer's appointment as conductor of the Singakademie lapsed at -the end of the season. By the rules of the society, election took place -triennially, and Stegmayer's death had left only a year to run. Brahms' -re-election was a matter of course, and was accepted by him, though not -without doubt and hesitation; but his resolution failed him later on, -and before the end of the summer he sent his resignation to the -committee. - -In the course of the year, Spina of Vienna (Cranz of Hamburg) published -a setting of the 13th Psalm for three-part women's Chorus, with -accompaniment for organ or pianoforte; and four Duets for Contralto and -Baritone, dedicated to Frau Amalie Joachim. Breitkopf and Härtel issued -two Motets for five-part mixed Chorus _a capella_ (the first set to a -verse of a church hymn by Paul Speratus, 1484-1551; the second to words -from the 51st Psalm); a Sacred Song by Paul Fleming, 1609-1640 (set for -two-part mixed Chorus, and written in double canon); and the three -Quartets for Solo voices to which we have already referred as Op. 31. - -Rieter-Biedermann published a set of nine Songs (Op. 32), No. 9 of which -is the exquisite 'Wie bist du meine Königin,' one of the most fragrant -love-songs ever composed; and a set of German Folk-songs, without opus -number, dedicated to the Vienna Singakademie. - -An Organ Fugue in A flat minor was published as a supplement to No. 29 -of the _Allgemeine Musikzeitung_, edited, as the reader may remember, by -Selmar Bagge. - -[1] Head of the celebrated Vienna firm of pianoforte-makers. - -[2] The _Deutsche Musikzeitung_ of November 29, the very day of the -concert, announces vocal duets and choruses by Brahms as part of the -programme. The review of the concert in the same paper concludes: 'Frau -Passy-Cornet and Herr Fürchtgott assisted the concert-giver, whose -programme was altered, by performing songs and ballads.' - -[3] Egg-punch was a birthday institution in the family. The Wednesday in -question was probably the birthday of Brahms' mother. - -[4] Reimann's 'Johannes Brahms.' Published in facsimile opposite p. 28. - -[5] Moser's 'Joseph Joachim,' p. 177. - -[6] 'Aus meinem Leben.' - -[7] Probably a private performance. Hellmesberger's published programmes -give the first concert performance of the work by his quartet party as -on December 27, 1863. - -[8] 'Brahms Erinnerungen,' by Franz Fribberg (_Berliner Tagblatt_, -December 18, 1898). - -N.B.--Fribberg was a member of the Philharmonic orchestra of Vienna at -the period in question. - -[9] The collection is now in the Imperial Gallery on the Burg Ring. - -[10] This and the extract immediately following are from some letters -first published by Hanslick in the _Neue Freie Presse_ of July 1, 1897, -and republished in _Am Ende des Jahrhunderts_ ('Der Modernen Oper,' Part -VIII.): 'Johannes Brahms.' - - - - - CHAPTER XIII - 1864-1867 - - 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--Concert-journey--The - Horn Trio--Frau Caroline Schnack--Last visit to Detmold--First - Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello--The German Requiem--Brahms - at Zürich--Billroth--Brahms and Joachim on a concert-tour in - Switzerland--Hans von Bülow--Reinthaler. - - -In the year 1864, or possibly at the end of 1863, the domestic troubles -that had arisen from Jakob Brahms' early marriage with a delicate woman -nearly twenty years his senior came to a crisis which Johannes, loving -both father and mother with tender devotion, could no longer bear. By -his wish the ill-assorted couple separated. Jakob had long since become -fairly prosperous in a small way, holding a recognised position as a -double-bass player amongst the orchestral musicians of Hamburg, and had -even been appointed a member of the Philharmonic band since -Stockhausen's election as the society's conductor. He now found quarters -for himself in the Grosser Bleichen; the home in the Fuhlentwiethe was -given up. Fritz, who, in spite of his want of energy, was doing well as -a teacher, took lodgings in Theaterstrasse, and Frau Brahms and Elise -removed to comfortable rooms in the Lange Reihe, Johannes, poor as he -was, taking upon himself the sole responsibility of their maintenance. -The time was still distant, in spite of the composer's steadily-growing -fame, when his circumstances were to become prosperous. Had money-making -been one of his immediate objects, he could certainly have attained it -with little difficulty; but his aims were wholly ideal, and directly -included pecuniary profit only so far as this was necessary for his own -decent maintenance and for the exercise of ungrudging generosity to his -family. His income, derived from the sale of his copyrights and from his -public activity as a pianist--for he practically gave up teaching on -going to Vienna--sufficed for these ends; he had learned from early -youth to find happiness in the realities of life, and to treat as -superfluities as many things as possible. The cultivation of happiness -he viewed, not only as a part of wisdom, but as a duty. 'Let us, so far -as we may, retain a fresh, happy interest in life, which we have at any -rate to live' was not with him a mere phrase to be offered for the -benefit of a friend in trouble, but one of the abiding principles by -which he shaped his own daily existence. - -No year would have been possible to Brahms without sight of his parents -and he stayed near them for part of the summer, his first visit after -embracing father and mother being, as usual, to Marxsen. Further plans -were not difficult to arrange, and chief among them was that of a long -visit to Baden-Baden. 'Johannes took us by surprise on July 30' is Frau -Schumann's entry, in her diary, of his arrival. He stayed on for the -remainder of the season, residing in a charming villa close to the -grounds of the Kurhaus, which was placed at his disposal by Rubinstein, -who had taken it for the summer, but left in August. - -Frau Schumann's residence at Baden-Baden brought in its train results -which are of much interest in the history of Brahms' career. The -not-distant capital of the duchy of Baden, Carlsruhe, was to become, in -the course of the next few years, an important centre for the -cultivation of his art. It seems convenient, therefore, to mention at -once the names of a few members of a group of friends belonging to Frau -Schumann's circle who resided or stayed frequently in the neighbourhood, -and with whom Brahms became more or less intimate. - -Jakob Rosenhain (born 1813), a composer now forgotten, but esteemed in -his day, and recognised both by Schumann and Mendelssohn, lived at -Baden-Baden, and was sometimes to be met at Frau Schumann's house. His -name heads the programme of Johannes' first public concert of 1848. The -painter Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880), a little-known and disappointed -man in 1864, whose art has attained great posthumous celebrity, came -annually with his mother to pass a few weeks there. The name of Frau -Henriette Feuerbach appears on the title-page of Brahms' work 'Nänie,' -which was composed soon after the premature death of her son. With the -mention of Feuerbach must be associated that of Julius Allgeyer, -introduced to our readers in an early chapter as a student of -copperplate engraving at Düsseldorf, and now settled in Carlsruhe as a -high-art photographer. Allgeyer had a genius for friendship. He was -extraordinarily attached to Feuerbach, of whose art he made himself the -apostle; but though his four years' residence in Rome (1856-1860) in -close intercourse with the painter caused an interruption of his -personal intimacy with Brahms, the two men remained in occasional -correspondence, and held each other in cordial esteem. Now the old -friendship was renewed, and it was not long before Brahms came to occupy -a place in the engraver's affections second only to that of Feuerbach. -The thought that he had known and loved both musician and painter -through the period of their dawning fame was, in after-years, a source -of satisfaction and pride to Allgeyer, whose name has become well known -in Germany as that of Feuerbach's biographer. - -In the middle of the sixties Carlsruhe, under the encouragement of its -reigning Grand-Duke Frederick, occupied an exceptionally brilliant -position amongst the smaller European centres of dramatic and musical -art, to which it had been raised by the talents and devotion of Edward -Devrient, the eminent stage-director of its court theatre, whose name -may be familiar to some English readers as that of one of Mendelssohn's -intimate friends. A man of wide general culture, the author of the -standard work on its subject--'The History of German Dramatic -Art'--playwright, singer, actor, possessed of an intimate knowledge of -the best traditions of the German stage in the wide sense that includes -opera, which had been derived from thirty years of professional -association with the court theatres of Berlin and Dresden, Devrient was -an ideal man for his post. His own sympathies remained faithful to the -classical school of opera upon which his taste had been formed, but he -did not allow his devotion to Gluck and Mozart and his interest in the -revival of works of an early period to narrow the sphere of his -activity. Taking a broad view of the duties of his position, he -recognised the claim to hearing of the New-German school, and several of -Wagner's musical dramas had been performed in the Carlsruhe court -theatre by his permission, if not on his initiative, before his -resignation of his post soon after the celebration of his artistic -jubilee in April, 1869. - -Not the least of his services to music was his choice of a successor to -the post of court capellmeister at Carlsruhe, which fell vacant on the -resignation of Joseph Strauss (not of the celebrated Vienna family) -early in 1864. By recommending Hermann Levi (1839-1900) for the -appointment, famous after the middle of the seventies amongst the famous -Wagner conductors, and director of the first performances of 'Parsifal' -(July-August, 1882), and by the generosity with which he permitted the -youthful musician to profit by the fruits of his own ripe experience, he -contributed in no small degree towards perfecting the technical -education of an artist whose name will be remembered in musical history -as amongst those of the great in his chosen branch of activity. - -A gifted pupil of the Leipzig Conservatoire, Levi resolved, at an early -age, to aim at achieving distinction as a conductor, and, on entering -the service of the Grand-Duke of Baden in his twenty-sixth year, he had -already laid the foundation of his future celebrity in successive posts -at Saarbrück, Mannheim, and Rotterdam. He had a large and enthusiastic -nature which caused him to reject the formal and stereotyped in art and -to sympathize with what seemed to him genuinely progressive, and, -becoming early in his career a great admirer of Schumann's music, he -passed easily to a recognition of the genius of Brahms, with whom he -had a slight acquaintance before settling at Carlsruhe. - -The singer Hauser, the violoncellist Lindner, the hornist Segisser, the -authoress Fräulein Anna Ettlinger--all resident in Carlsruhe--the -learned Oberschulrath Gustav Wendt, called there in 1867, whose rooms -were the scene of many distinguished gatherings, are to be included in -our list; and of particular interest is the name of the violoncellist -Bernhard Cossmann, of Weimar celebrity, who settled at Baden-Baden in -1870. Brahms was a willing and heartily welcome visitor at his house, -and took part there in performances of his E minor Violoncello Sonata, -and, with the hornist Steinbrügger, of the Horn Trio. - -A noteworthy and picturesque figure, familiar in the artist circle, was -that of Tourgenieff, who visited Baden-Baden annually from early in the -sixties until the opening of the seventies. In conclusion is to be added -the name of Pauline Viardot-Garcia, who settled at Baden in 1863, -building a spacious villa in the Lichtenthaler Allée for her summer -residence, which contained a gallery of fine paintings, chiefly of the -Spanish and Netherlands schools. Amongst her possessions was Mozart's -autograph score of 'Don Giovanni,' which she kept enshrined in a -valuable casket. Madame Viardot was a musician in a very comprehensive -sense of the word. Her triumphs on the operatic stage belong to the -history of musico-dramatic art; she had been a pupil of Liszt on the -pianoforte, had studied counterpoint and composition, and composed a -good deal. Several of her operettas, for which Tourgenieff furnished the -text-books, were performed privately by her pupils and children in her -miniature theatre in Baden-Baden, where she was accustomed to entertain -many of the celebrities of the time. One was given in German translation -by Richard Pohl, as 'Der letzte Zauberer,' on the Court stages of -Carlsruhe and Weimar. At the request of some of her girl pupils, Brahms -composed a short choral serenade for her birthday one summer subsequent -to our present date, and conducted its performance by the young ladies, -outside her house, at an early hour of the morning. This pleasant -incident of the seventies recalls that of the forties, when the youthful -Johannes consented to fill the offices of composer and conductor at -Winsen on the occasion of Rector Köhler's birthday. - -Brahms was presented by Frau Schumann, in the course of this his first -lengthened stay at Baden-Baden, to the Princess Anna, Landgräfin of -Hesse on an occasion when the two artists performed his sonata for two -pianofortes privately before Her Royal Highness. The work, which, as we -have seen, had failed to win public sympathy when performed in a Vienna -concert-room, made its mark on this occasion. It appealed strongly to -the royal listener, who, at the close of the last movement, warmly -expressed to the composer her sense of its beauty. Brahms, gratified and -pleased at the Princess's unreserved appreciation, called on her the -following day, and begged permission, which was readily granted, to -dedicate the work to her; and on its publication the following year in -its final form--a quintet for pianoforte and strings--Her Royal -Highness's name appeared on the title-page. The Princess acknowledged -the compliment of the dedication by presenting Brahms with one of her -treasures--the autograph score of Mozart's G minor Symphony. It passed -after his death, as part of his library, into the possession of the -Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna. - -An interesting reference to the dedication and the time is in the -possession of the present Landgraf of Hesse, whose musical talent was -recognised and encouraged by Brahms twenty years later, and is contained -in a letter of thanks written by the master in 1892 on the dedication to -him of a fantasia for pianoforte published that year by the Prince: - - 'YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS MOST GRACIOUS HERR LANDGRAF! - - 'Whilst I venture to express to Your Royal Highness my most - respectful and hearty thanks for the dedication of the fantasia, - very many and very pleasant recollections occur to me. - - 'The high and agreeable distinction, as which I regard the - dedication, reminds me of the similar pleasure I experienced when - I was permitted to inscribe my quintet to your highly-honoured - mother, the Frau Landgräfin. That was in beautiful Baden-Baden, and - it would be too tempting to go on chatting about the unforgettable - music-hours and pleasant days; but much else crowds upon the - memory: Meiningen, Frankfurt, Vienna, Baden, etc. I think that by - my mere mention of these names Y.R.H. will know what a valued - memorial your work and its dedication, by which I am so much - honoured, will be to me of many pleasant times. - - 'With my hearty thanks for the valuable present, I unite the wish - that our glorious art may bring to Y.R.H. many more hours as happy - as those were of which this fantasia gives such convincing testimony. - - 'Your Royal Highness's deeply obliged - 'JOHANNES BRAHMS. - - 'VIENNA, _Jan. 1892_.' - -On September 12 Frau Joachim's first child was born, and there was no -doubt as to what he should be called. Johannes must, of course, be -godfather, and give his name to Joachim's boy. Brahms was not present at -the christening, but he sent to the parents as his congratulatory gift -the manuscript of the little song published long afterwards as No. 2 of -Op. 91, the 'Geistliches Wiegenlied,' or, as it is called in the -published translated title, 'The Virgin's Cradle Song.' The words are -imitated by Geibel from a text of Lope de Vega, 'Die ihr schwebt um -diese Palmen' (Ye who o'er these palms are hov'ring). The music, -composed for contralto, viola, and pianoforte, is founded upon the -melody of an old song,[11] which, given in Brahms' composition to the -viola, serves as the basis for the contrapuntal treatment of the voice -and pianoforte parts. - -Brahms left Baden-Baden on October 10, and, returning to Vienna, passed -the next few weeks in quiet pursuit of his ordinary avocations, happy at -knowing himself in complete possession of his time, yet perhaps not -without an occasional passing regret at the thought of the pleasure he -had derived the previous season, as conductor of the Singakademie, from -his association with choir and orchestra. The change he had advised in -the family arrangements at Hamburg was not greatly to prolong for his -mother the peaceful old age he had desired to secure for her. Frau -Brahms had taken her last farewell of her dearly-loved son when he -quitted Hamburg in the summer. Her health, which had for some time been -growing weaker, continued to fail, and on February 2, 1865, she quietly -breathed her last. - -Johannes, who took the next train to Hamburg after receiving his -sister's summons, arrived soon after all was over, and turned -immediately towards his mother's bed-chamber. He had once before passed -through a great sorrow, but in Schumann's case death had come in the -guise of a friend. This was another kind of bereavement, and the loss of -the dear, simply-loving old mother wrung his heart. 'Do not go in yet, -Hannes,' said Elise, trying to prevent him, and, indeed, as he passed on -into the room the sudden complete realization of the mother's tenderness -gone from his life broke down his self-command on the instant. He knelt -down by the quiet bed and sobbed aloud in uncontrollable grief. When he -had somewhat collected himself he presently went out. Solitude, however, -often welcome to him, was not what he wanted to-day, nor over-much -sympathy, but affection--and affection of a kind that perhaps may have -seemed to him something akin to the assured, unreasoning mother's love. -He turned into kind Frau Cossel's and asked her to let him have a child. -His own little goddaughter Johanna was most willingly at his service as -a companion, and as soon as she was ready the pair walked away together -hand in hand back to Elise, the little girl somewhat awed by the -situation and the changed demeanour of the friend whom she was -accustomed to regard as the merriest of her companions, but glad to be -in his society on any terms. Leaving his godchild with Elise, Johannes -almost immediately went out again, and returned after a while with his -father, whom he drew with him into the adjoining room, accidentally -leaving the door of communication a little open. The scene of the -death-chamber was thus made visible to the frightened Johanna from her -position in the parlour, and imprinted itself indelibly on her brain. -She watched it spellbound, and was not too young a child to be -penetrated and touched by what she saw. - -The two men stood together by the bedside for a few seconds without -stirring. Then Johannes, putting his hand on his father's arm, gently -guided it towards the motionless figure, and, placing the husband's hand -over that of the dead wife, kept both covered with his own in a last -reconciliation. Kind friends came to the funeral, and true sympathy was -at hand, but Johannes shrank in his grief from hearing the expression of -condolence. 'I have no mother now: I must marry,' he said miserably when -the service was over. Stockhausen and his wife insisted that he and -Elise should dine quietly with them that day, and there is little doubt -that Brahms was helped by the affectionate consideration shown on all -sides, and was quietly grateful for it. He returned to his work in a few -days, but the responsibility for the maintenance of Elise, who, having -strongly felt the mother's side of the family difficulties, shrank from -the idea of rejoining her father, remained entirely his. - -The two first books of the 'Magelone Romances,' dedicated to -Stockhausen, and the Pianoforte Quintet were published by -Rieter-Biedermann early in the year. The version of the quintet as a -Sonata for two Pianofortes was issued by the same house in 1872. - -The Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, is unquestionably one of the greatest -works of chamber music for pianoforte and strings ever written. Some -distinguished writers go so far as to give it the first place amongst -the composer's works of its class; and if regard be had to the -largeness of its proportions, the stormy grandeur and the deep pathos of -its ideas, its extraordinary wealth of thematic material, and the -astonishing power with which this is handled, it must be admitted that -there is something to be said in support of such a view. To the author -it certainly appears impossible to select one of Brahms' works of this -period and this class for preference as compared with the others. All -are so great as, so to say, to defy future competition. They seem as -unapproachable and secure on their own lines as the immortal '48' -themselves in another category. The imaginative power which surges -through the first movement of the quintet recalls the daring of the -youthful Johannes, and is guided now by a master-hand. This movement -dominates the whole work. Its contrasted tones of passionate splendour -and scarcely less passionate mystery are reflected in the rich pathos of -the 'andante un poco adagio,' in the weird fitfulness of the scherzo -with its heart-gripping trio, and in the doubtful tranquillity of the -finale, bursting in the coda into a rushing impetuosity which carries -the movement to a triumphant conclusion. Few of Brahms' compositions -contain more striking illustrations than this one of his power of -fertilizing his themes and bringing new, out of previous, material, a -power which gives to his works a coherence and solidity hardly equalled -save in the compositions of Bach himself, and which has a certain -artistic analogy with the secret force that governs all natural organic -development. - -The summer of this year was again spent near Frau Schumann. Brahms took -lodgings--two small rooms well provided with windows--in Frau Becker's -house, which was situated a little apart from the village of Lichtenthal -in an idyllic spot amongst the hills. His plan of life, essentially the -same wherever he fixed his summer residence, was to rise with the dawn, -and, after making himself an early cup of coffee, to enjoy the fresh -delights of early morning by going for a long walk in the surrounding -forest. He then returned to work in his rooms until the time arrived -for his mid-day dinner, taken usually in the garden of the 'Golden -Lion'; for in these days he only dined occasionally, when accompanied by -a friend, at the somewhat more expensive 'Bear.' By four o'clock he was -generally in Frau Schumann's balcony for afternoon coffee and to pass an -hour with her in music, conversation, or walking. More often than not he -returned to supper at half-past seven, when his place was laid at table, -as a matter of course, at Frau Schumann's right hand. - -All the circumstances of his surroundings were favourable to his -creative activity, which was unceasing, and the profound emotional -experience that had recently moved and enriched his spirit had already -caused in him the stirrings of the impulse that was to grow and -gradually to dominate him until it had become embodied in a work which, -had it been the only child of his genius known to the world, would have -sufficed to immortalize his name. - -Before Brahms' departure from Lichtenthal a communication from Hamburg -added to his feelings of tenderness and regret the shadow of a grave -family apprehension. - -Having accepted engagements in Switzerland and Germany for the -ante-Christmas concert-season, he remained on till the end of October in -his quarters at Frau Becker's, and here, about a week before the -commencement of his _tournée_, he received the news that his father had -resolved to marry again, and had become engaged to a widow. The -intelligence, such as it was, came direct from Jakob, but it contained -no particulars whatever to soften the anxiety it aroused, no mention -being made in it even of the name of the intended wife, and it threw the -son into a state of the strongest agitation, in which the tender pang -for the dear old mother may very possibly not have been the -predominating element. Who could the wife-elect be? Would she make Jakob -happy? Could the marriage state be happy except under the rarest -combination of circumstances? Were there children of the widow's first -marriage to be provided for? if so, by whom? Jakob's means could bear no -additional burden. And yet, the dear, homely, uncultured father, often -enough a butt for the wit of the younger musicians standing by his side -in the Philharmonic orchestra; this musician without musical endowment, -who loved his music and his instruments, as Johannes sometimes declared, -if such affection were to be measured by proof given, better even than -he himself loved his art; who had persevered doggedly through long years -of privation and struggle in his endeavours to attain to some small -place in the world of art, and had won it, his father--and it needs no -prophet to realize the pathos of this thought to the loving heart of the -great composer--did he not deserve happiness if happiness should follow -the step? Johannes was that day capable of but two resolutions on the -subject: first, that his father should be made happy if anything he -could say or do could help to make him so, and, secondly, that as soon -as his engagements should permit, he would go to Hamburg and judge for -himself of the wisdom of Jakob's choice. - -The first of Brahms' concert undertakings for the autumn was fulfilled -on November 3 in the hall of the Museum, Carlsruhe, where he performed -his Pianoforte Concerto at the first subscription concert of the season, -accompanied by the grand-ducal orchestra under Levi. The work was -received, for the first time, with every sign of approval. 'The people -had the surprising kindness to be quite satisfied, to call for me, -praise me, and all the rest of it,' he wrote to Dietrich. - -Two of the vocal quartets, Op. 31, were included in the programme, and -Brahms played some unaccompanied Schumann solos in the second part of -the concert. - -On the 6th of the month two new 'Magelone Romances' were sung for the -first time in public by Krause, at a concert given in the same hall by -Frau Schumann and Joachim; and before Brahms left Carlsruhe the first -private performance took place of the newly-completed Trio in E flat for -pianoforte, violin, and horn, a composition which has now long occupied -a peculiar place in the affection of genuine lovers of his music on -account of the tone of pure beauty that pervades it--beauty of sound, -of mood, and idea. The noble simplicity of its themes and the -spontaneous character which distinguishes their development hold the -attention even of the unfamiliar listener from beginning to end of this -inspired work, and the great musicianship of the composer has wrought it -to a flawless example of its kind, in which no weak spot can be detected -by deliberate examination. The adagio has the character of a lament, and -can hardly be matched as an expression of profound sadness excepting by -a few others of Brahms' and some of Beethoven's slow movements. The work -was a favourite with the composer, and it is of interest to know from -his own lips that its inception was due to an inspiration that came to -him in the course of one of his walks near Lichtenthal. A year or two -later than our present date, as he was ascending one of his beloved -pine-clad hills in Dietrich's company, he showed his friend the exact -spot where the opening theme of the first movement had occurred to him, -saying: 'I was walking along one morning, and as I came to this spot the -sun shone out and the subject immediately suggested itself.'[12] - -From Carlsruhe Brahms proceeded to Switzerland, where he appeared at -Basle, Zürich, and Winterthur. At Zürich he conducted his D major -Serenade, given there two years previously under Fichtelberger, and -performed the solo of Schumann's Pianoforte Concerto, and Bach's -Chromatic Fantasia; and at Winterthur he gave a chamber music soirée in -combination with his friend Theodor Kirchner and the young violinist F. -Hegar. Of this Widmann, who saw and heard Brahms for the first time on -the occasion, has given some account in his 'Recollections.' - - 'There was,' he writes, 'a something in his countenance which - suggested the certainty of victory, the beaming cheerfulness of a - poet happy in the exercise of his art.' - -Returning to Germany, Brahms appeared next at Mannheim, and, on December -12, conducted his D major Serenade and played Beethoven's E flat -Concerto at the fifth Gürzenich subscription concert of the season at -Cologne. He had but little success on this occasion either as pianist or -composer. The serenade was criticised as being too lengthy and its -themes as too 'naïve' for his elaborate treatment of them. A different -reception was accorded him at a soirée of chamber music held at the -conservatoire, when he performed with Hiller his Duet Variations, Op. -23, and with von Königslow and his colleagues the G minor Pianoforte -Quartet. Both works were received with acclamation, and the composer -achieved a success worthy of his position in the world of art. Before -leaving Cologne Brahms played at a meeting of the Musikverein to a -private audience of the members, most of them professors and students of -the conservatoire. Amongst the pieces chosen by him for performance on -this occasion were Bach's great Organ Prelude and Fugue in A minor. - -And now the anxious son found opportunity to hurry with beating heart to -Hamburg to see his father and to make the acquaintance of his -stepmother-elect. To find, also, every probability that Jakob had chosen -wisely, and that his contemplated change of life bade fair to ensure a -happy and peaceful close to a career that had been full of hardship and -uncertainty. - -Frau Caroline Schnack, a handsome widow who had already been twice a -wife, was just turned forty-one, and therefore more than seventeen years -the junior of her proposed third husband. She had an only child, her son -Fritz, born of her second marriage, now a lad of about thirteen. Capable -and managing, she kept an excellent public dining-room for single men -not far from the musicians' 'Börse,' described in an early chapter of -our narrative, and had a regular _clientèle_ amongst the members of the -Stadt Theater orchestra. Since the time when Johannes had thought it -advisable for his parents to separate, Jakob had been one of her daily -customers, and her good cooking and substantial capacity had gradually -opened for her the way to his affection. Johannes, on his interview with -Frau Schnack, was at once favourably impressed by her personality and -gave his consent to the engagement, only insisting that full time for -consideration on both sides should be allowed before the taking of the -irrevocable step of marriage; and after a day or two in Hamburg he set -out with a greatly relieved mind for Detmold, where he had arranged with -Bargheer to spend the Christmas week and to reappear as composer and -pianist on the scenes of his former activity. - -The visit passed off most happily. The great composer, to whom, with -some disappointment, much success and fame had come since his last -sojourn in the little capital six years previously, was merry according -to his wont when in the midst of familiar associates. Such changes as -had taken place in the circle were for the better. Bargheer was married, -Carl von Meysenbug engaged. The reunions of the former bachelor friends -were enlivened by the presence of ladies--charming young married women -and pretty girls--and Brahms was ready to abandon himself to any amount -of fun, his almost extravagant buoyancy of spirits being no doubt -assisted by the reaction from his late tension of mind in regard to his -father's affairs. These social occasions were but the interludes between -more serious pleasures. Every day there was music at the palace, the -castle, or one or more of the private musical houses. Brahms conducted -his A major Serenade and played Beethoven's E flat Concerto at an -orchestral concert, and took part in a soirée at the palace, where, -amongst other things, he performed the Kreutzer Sonata with Bargheer -before the well-remembered sympathetic court circle. The visit, which -was the last paid by him to Detmold, formed a fitting close to his -association with Prince Leopold's court, to whose memory, and especially -to that of the various members of the princely family, must ever attach -the artistic distinction of their early recognition of the composer's -genius and their appreciation of his personality. - -Brahms' next destination was Oldenburg, where he arrived in time to -celebrate the New Year's festival of 1866 with the Dietrichs. He played -his own Concerto and an unpublished composition of Schubert at the -subscription concert of January 5, and at the chamber music soirée of -the 10th contributed some Bach solos to the programme and took part with -Dietrich in a performance of Schumann's Variations in B flat, and with -Engel and Westermann in the first public performance of his own Horn -Trio, which created a deep impression. It is important to add here that -Westermann used the natural horn on the occasion by the particular -desire of Brahms, who now and always insisted to the hornists of his -acquaintance on the impossibility of securing a poetical interpretation -of his work with the ventil horn. - - 'If the performer is not obliged by the stopped notes to play - softly the piano and violin are not obliged to adapt themselves to - him, and the tone is rough from the beginning.'[13] - -The appearances at Oldenburg closed the _tournée_. Gratified as our -musician declared himself to be with the results of his journey, which, -if it had not brought him a series of triumphs, had at least -demonstrated the fact that his works were gradually making their way -through the musical circles of Europe, it was not, as we know, part -either of his inclination or his aim to prolong his occasional artistic -travels. He chafed at the restriction to personal freedom resulting from -fixed engagements, and at the disturbance of mind inseparable from -hurried journeys from place to place, and this year he had more than -ordinary reason for desiring to be settled again to the quiet -concentration of thought essential to all art-creation worthy to be so -called. After a second and longer stay in Hamburg that confirmed the -satisfaction with which he had lately contemplated the idea of his -father's approaching marriage, he returned to Carlsruhe to pass the rest -of the winter in Allgeyer's house in Langenstrasse, now known as -Kaiserstrasse. - -The first quarter of the year 1866 witnessed the publication of a long -list of works. By Rieter-Biedermann, the two sets of extraordinarily -difficult and brilliant Paganini Variations for Pianoforte, which, when -in the hands of a competent executant, are found to be full of original -and striking effects, even if they be inferior in musical value to the -composer's other achievements in this form[14]; the three Sacred -Choruses, Op. 37, for unaccompanied women's voices, and mentioned in our -first volume in connection with the Ladies' Choir. By Simrock, the -second String Sextet in G major, worthy sister to its companion work, -though it has not obtained quite so wide a popularity, and the Sonata in -E minor, dedicated to Dr. Josef Gänsbacher. The Horn Trio was issued by -the same house quite at the end of the year.[15] - -The Sonata in E minor for pianoforte and violoncello, the earliest of -Brahms' seven published duet sonatas for pianoforte and another -instrument, all of which are characteristic examples of certain sides of -his genius, is a valuable number in the comparatively short list of -works of its class for the violoncello. The first movement is of -graceful, expressive, delicately melodious character, rising at one -point of the development section towards passion, but returning -immediately to the dainty, dreaming mood by which the composer so often -subdues his hearers to the spell of his imagination. The 'allegretto -quasi menuetto' which follows is an exquisite example of a species of -movement in the making of which Brahms stands unrivalled. It fascinates -with irresistible certainty by its ethereal, playful, poetic fancy, to -which the touch of seriousness in the trio offers just sufficient, not -too pronounced, contrast. The finale is written _con amore_ in the form -of a free fugue, which, full of spirit and energy throughout its course, -rattles to its close in a lively coda. Care should be taken not to -exaggerate the pace of this movement in performance. If taken too -quickly, the violoncello passages lose their due effect. - -On his return to Carlsruhe, Brahms settled down to the actual writing of -the German Requiem, with which he was occupied during the succeeding -months, and it was one of Allgeyer's favourite recollections in later -years that a portion of the inspired work had been put on paper under -his roof. - -It is well known that Brahms' nearest friends accepted the composition -as his memorial of his mother. 'We all think he wrote it in her memory, -though he has never expressly said so,' Frau Schumann told the author -some years later. 'Never has a nobler monument been raised by filial -love,' said Joachim, referring to the German Requiem in the course of -his address at the Brahms Memorial Festival held at Meiningen in -October, 1899; and we may at least say with certainty that the work, -which must be regarded as the crowning point of much of the composer's -previous activity, is, on the whole, a memorial of the emotions by which -he was stirred during the period that immediately succeeded his mother's -death, apart from the question of whether or not he had planned it at an -earlier time. It is, however, a circumstance of great interest that the -strains he had conceived in his grief for the tragedy of Schumann's -illness recurred to him as appropriate for the solemn mourning -march--one of the most vivid and extraordinary of his inspirations--of -the Requiem,[16] and we cannot be wrong in assuming that the remembrance -of his beloved friend was with him as he worked. Perhaps we may venture -to think that two of the strongest affections and griefs of Brahms' -life, associated with strangely contrasted objects--Schumann, the great -genius and master, Johanna, the simple old mother--live together in this -exalted music. There is no warrant for the statement of anything more -precise as to the composer's intention excepting with regard to the -fifth number, the soprano solo with chorus, which was added some time -after the completion of the other movements. Of this it may be said -definitely, as will presently appear, that whilst Brahms was engaged in -writing it the thought of his mother was present in a special sense to -his memory. - -Jakob's marriage with Frau Schnack took place in March, rather more than -a year after the death of his first wife. Johannes sent a substantial -sum of money as a wedding present, and his great contentment in the -anticipation of his father's happiness was a constant and favourite -theme in his talks with Allgeyer, always an interested and sympathetic -listener. - -Frau Caroline's business was given up, and the newly-married pair -settled into a comfortable flat on the fourth floor of No. 5, -Anscharplatz, at the corner of Valentin's Camp, a respectable business -quarter of Hamburg, where there was sufficient accommodation to allow -Frau Caroline to turn her housekeeping talents to account by taking two -or three men boarders. A large airy room, 'the corner room,' was -reserved for Johannes, who was ultimately responsible for the rent of -the flat, and to it were transferred his books, bookcase, and other -belongings, from the apartments that had been his mother's in the Lange -Reihe, whilst Elise arranged to live near an aunt in another quarter of -the city. A photograph of Johannes, taken by Allgeyer, was sent to Jakob -a few weeks after the wedding as a permanent souvenir of his son's -felicitations on the occasion. It is still in existence, and is now in -the possession of Herr Fritz Schnack, 'the second Fritz,' as Johannes -caressingly called his quasi stepbrother. - -Persuaded by Theodor Kirchner, who was at this time resident in Zürich, -to spend the summer near him, Brahms, arriving in the middle of April, -found a lodging in a small house on the Zürichberg which commanded a -splendid prospect of lake and mountain. Here every facility was -abundantly at hand for his enjoyment. Dividing his time, from a very -early hour of the morning until noon, between musing in the open air and -work in his room, he was usually to be met about twelve o'clock in the -museum, which became a place of rendezvous for his friends. After the -early dinner, always taken out of doors in fine weather, and a more or -less prolonged sitting over newspapers, or in chat with acquaintance, in -the open air, he would drop in at a friend's house, generally -Kirchner's, pass an hour or two in informal sociability, and often make -music with some of the resident musicians. It was at Kirchner's that he -became acquainted with the celebrated Swiss writer and poet, Gottfried -Keller, and with the distinguished Zürich professor of surgery, Dr. -Theodor Billroth, who was some four years our composer's senior, and -who, called subsequently to Vienna, became one of Brahms' most familiar -friends. Billroth's love for music was second only to his devotion to -his own great vocation. He had studied the violin under Eschmann, played -at a weekly trio meeting at his house in Plattenstrasse, Zürich, and was -sufficiently proficient to take part on the viola with professional -musicians in private performances of Beethoven's quartets and Brahms' -sextets. He could play the piano well, was a good sight-reader, and -acted occasionally as musical critic to one of the Zürich papers. - - 'Brahms arrived here a few days ago,' he writes on the 22nd of - April to his friend, Professor Lübke of Stuttgart. 'This morning he - and Kirchner played some of Liszt's symphonic poems on two - pianofortes. Horrible music!... We purged ourselves with Brahms' - new sextet that has just come out. Brahms and Kirchner played it as - a duet.'[17] - -The composer became intimate, also, at the house of Herr and Frau -Wesendonck, who had been Wagner's great friends during his residence at -Zürich, and could not hear enough about the composer of the -'Meistersinger,' of whom the Wesendoncks possessed inexhaustible -personal recollections and several valuable souvenirs. Amongst these was -the master's autograph score of the 'Rheingold,' an object that was -regarded by Brahms with a respect almost amounting to veneration. - -Traits of habit and character similar to those with which the reader is -familiar, and which recall the period of the Detmold visits, are -described in Steiner's 'Recollections,' by Capellmeister F. Hegar,[18] -who was the inseparable associate of Brahms and Kirchner: - - '... We were no less impressed by his extraordinarily sound health. - He could venture upon anything. How often has he passed the night - on the sofa of my bachelor's quarters when he was disinclined to - climb the Zürichberg in the late hours of evening. Once indeed, - when an older friend less hardy than himself claimed my - hospitality, he lay down underneath my grand piano, and declared - next morning that he had slept splendidly.' - -Hegar mentions that Brahms' musical memory and unusually rapid power of -apprehension excited the astonished admiration of the Zürich musicians. - - 'When we played him our compositions for the first time, he would - afterwards sit down and repeat long portions note for note from - memory, pointing out the weak places.' - -One or two reminiscences of the summer are to be found in the volume of -Billroth's letters from which quotation has already been made. Amongst -them is the description of a music-party at his house, at which Brahms -was present to hear a performance of his lately-published Sextet in G -major. The consciousness of the composer's presence so unnerved Billroth -that he was obliged to ask Eschmann, who was amongst the listeners, to -relieve him of his part of second viola. - - 'I have learnt never to play before a composer,' he wrote a few - days afterwards, 'unless his work has been well rehearsed. As I was - quite familiar with the composition, I could imagine the vexation - Brahms must have felt, although he put the matter aside in the - kindest way. Kirchner, Brahms and Hegar had been up late together - the night before and were tired. Everything contributed to make the - evening dull.' - -Of the sextet he says: 'I think it wonderfully fine; so clear, so -simple, so masterly.' - -Brahms remained in Switzerland until the middle of August, and, arriving -on the 17th of this month to stay for a few weeks at his old lodgings in -Lichtenthal, surprised Frau Schumann by appearing before her for the -first time with a beard. He did not at this period persevere very long -in wearing the appendage, which changed his appearance in an unusual -degree, but he adopted it a second time, and, as it proved, permanently, -about fourteen years later. - -The composer had worked steadily on at the German Requiem during the -months of his residence in Zürich, and that he now completed it in -Lichtenthal--save and excepting only the fifth number--is to be inferred -from the inscription on the manuscript score--'Baden-Baden im Sommer, -1866'--now in possession of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at Vienna. -Great additional interest is given to this date by a short entry made by -Frau Schumann in her diary early in September, which is, without doubt, -the earliest written note upon the now famous work. - - 'Johannes has been playing me some magnificent movements out of a - Requiem of his own and a string quartet in C minor. The Requiem - delighted me even more, however. It is full of tender and again - daring thoughts. I cannot feel clear as to how it will sound, but - in myself it sounds glorious.'[19] - -The extract has a double interest, as furnishing a new illustration of -Brahms' caution with regard to publication, and especially in the case -of works which constituted for him a new artistic departure. The String -Quartet in C minor was not published until 1873, seven years from our -present date. - -About the middle of September Joachim appeared in Lichtenthal, and after -a few days' stay there carried Brahms away with him. He had become a man -at large through the political events of the year, by which the kingdom -of Hanover became part of Prussia, having felt it impossible to accept -the offer made him to retain his appointment after the deposition of -King George, and was able to follow his inclination as to his -arrangements for the autumn and winter season. These included tours in -Switzerland and France, and it was ultimately arranged between the -friends that Johannes should combine with him in some of his Swiss -concerts. - -Brahms spent most of the intervening time in Hamburg, and was so happy -in his comfortable corner room in the Anscharplatz that he began -seriously to entertain the idea of settling down again under his -father's roof. Frau Caroline managed the household with careful but -judicious thrift, and there was peace and contentment in the home. In -his own way Jakob was as regular in his habits as his son. Every morning -he went to the 'Börse' to inquire for work, and was generally successful -in obtaining small engagements, often to act as substitute in the -theatre orchestras. His position as bassist at the Stadt Theater had -come to an end in the course of the fifties, owing to changes in the -management, but he continued a member of the Philharmonic orchestra -until a year before his death. He was proud and fond of Frau Caroline, -always came home as soon as his work was done to enjoy the good plain -fare which she had ready for him, and was perfectly happy as he sat in -the kitchen with his pipe and a large cup of thin coffee, watching her -movements. Once a week he amused himself by walking in the Jews' quarter -of the city and inspecting the cheap second-hand wares with which the -vendors sought to tempt his custom. His weakness for bargains was -sometimes a source of embarrassment to his wife, in spite of her -firmness in limiting his loose pocket-money to the sum of a few pence. -Now he would send home to her a quantity of wardrobe hooks, another time -many pounds'-weight of honey. 'Goodness, Brahms! what are we to do with -it?' she would despairingly inquire. 'Yes, Lina, but I couldn't let it -stand at the price,' he would answer. Johannes used to lecture his -father on his weakness for spending money, telling him how careful he -himself was obliged to be, and could be seriously vexed if he found that -Jakob had been really extravagant or thoughtless. This, however, -occurred but seldom. - -A letter to Dietrich from the Anscharplatz mentions the Requiem, and -evidently answers an inquiry from Albert as to the long-delayed Symphony -in C minor of which we heard in the summer of 1862. - - 'DEAR DIETRICH! - - 'Before the summer is over you shall be reminded of me by a short - greeting.... - - 'Unfortunately I cannot wait upon you with a symphony, but it would - be a joy to have you here for a day, to play you my so-called - German Requiem. - - 'I have been till now living in Switzerland, in Zürich. I shall - stay here a little and think of going then to Vienna....'[20] - -The concert-journey with Joachim was very successful, and afforded -Brahms quite unexpected evidence of the progress his music was making in -Switzerland. This country was, in fact, one of the earliest in which his -art met with general appreciation, and much of the credit of its -acceptance there must be ascribed to the efforts of Theodor Kirchner, -who, as the reader may remember, was one of the most gifted musicians of -the Schumann circle, and who seized every opportunity that offered from -the beginning of Brahms' career, to spread the understanding of his -compositions. Kirchner filled an organist's post at Winterthur for -nearly ten years before his removal to Zürich in 1862, and, whilst -developing an active musical life in the little town, made his influence -felt far beyond its limits. - -The tour opened on October 24 in Schaffhausen, and included Winterthur, -Basle, and finally Mühlhausen in Alsace. An interesting incident of the -visit to Mühlhausen was the renewal of friendly relations, after ten -years of estrangement, between Joachim and von Bülow, who was resident -during the season 1866-67 at Basle, and gave Trio concerts there with -Abel and Kahnt. No communication took place between the former Weimar -intimates during the week passed by Brahms and Joachim at Basle, but -Bülow's affectionate nature was strongly stirred by seeing his old -friend again on the concert-platform and hearing his public -performances, which he describes as 'ideal perfection.' The sequel may -be told in the words of his letter to Raff, dated Basle, November 22. - - 'And now, a great piece of news. On Sunday the 10th I travelled to - Mühlhausen for the Brahms-Joachim concert, and the relation of - friendship between Joachim and me was renewed on French soil after - ten years' interruption. This will lead to no results of a positive - nature, but a stone has been taken from my heart, and from his also - as he has assured your sister-in-law. For my sake Joachim returned - to Basle for a few hours and then took the night train to - Paris.'[21] - -Some years were yet to elapse before Bülow could pretend to any -cordiality of feeling towards the art of Brahms. In another letter of -1866 we read: - - 'I respect and admire him, but--at a distance. The Pianoforte - Quintet seems to me the most interesting of his large - compositions.... Kiel is much more sympathetic to me.'[21] - -He prevailed upon himself, indeed, to play the Horn Trio at his Basle -Trio concert of March 26, 1867, when his colleagues were Abel and Hans -Richter, who commenced his artist's career as a hornist, and was at this -time living in Switzerland in the enjoyment of Wagner's intimacy; and he -included Joachim's Variations for viola and pianoforte in the same -programme; but as late as 1870 he wrote to Raff: - - 'What do the Br.'s matter to me? Brahms, Brahmüller, Bruch, etc. - Don't mention them again! Who knows whether a Riehl may not turn up - in 1950 to beplutarch them as maestrinelli? The only one who - interests me is Braff!' - -The fact that von Bülow's critical faculty was subject to the disturbing -influence of his capacity for warm friendship cannot lessen the -admiration inspired by his talents and his generous nature. His severe -animadversions on Brahms' works, together with his practical neglect of -them up to a period when his opinion as to their merits had become very -much a matter of indifference, may be pardoned by the lovers of our -master's art, who remember that they were, for the most part, the -outcome of his deep personal affection for Liszt, Wagner, and Joachim, -and of his long-continued intimate association with the leaders and -prominent disciples of the New-German school. - -Brahms returned to Vienna, after about a year and a half of absence, -immediately after his friend's departure from Mühlhausen, and spent the -winter quietly at work in his room on the fourth story of No. 6, -Poststrasse. The earliest event of any importance to his career that -marks the opening months of the year 1867 is the first public -performance of the Sextet in G major, which was given at the -Hellmesberger concert of February 3. The reader will by this time hardly -be surprised to learn that the work was received without enthusiasm. - - 'The composer was certainly called for and applauded,' says - Schelle, Hanslick's successor in the _Presse_, and a loyal though - unbiassed supporter of Brahms, 'but it was with a certain reserve. - One felt distinctly that the public was not carried away by the - work, but desired to do justice to so admirable an achievement.... - Brahms may be called a virtuoso in the modern development of the - quartet style, ... but only that can reach the heart which proceeds - from the heart, and the sextet comes from the hand and the head, - whilst the warm pulsations of the heart are to be felt only at - intervals.' - -So Bach's works were once spoken of, so Beethoven's in their day. So, it -may almost be said, must be criticised all musical creative achievement -that adequately expresses an original individuality. The composer of -genius has to go through a long apprenticeship before he acquires a -language of his own really capable of conveying his thoughts to the -world. By the time he is master of it, he has, by the nature of things, -placed himself outside the immediate comprehension of all but a few -specially qualified listeners, and must be willing to wait for his -reward until some of those to whom he speaks have had time to follow him -a certain distance along his appointed path, and opportunity to become -familiarized with his manner of utterance. Brahms was content to wait, -and he waited almost with equanimity of spirit, never losing faith in -the future, though he had something more pronounced to encounter than -indifference. Hirsch, of the _Wiener Zeitung_, wrote apropos of the -sextet: - - 'We are always seized with a kind of oppression when the new John - in the wilderness, Herr Johannes Brahms, announces himself. This - prophet, proclaimed by Robert Schumann in his darkening hours, who, - for the rest, has his energetic admirers in Vienna--we mention this - in our position, from pure love of truth--makes us quite - disconsolate with his impalpable, dizzy tone-vexations that have - neither body nor soul and can only be products of the most - desperate effort. Such manifest, glaring, artificiality is quite - peculiar to this gentleman. How many drops of perspiration may - adhere to these note-heads?' - -On the 25th of this same month of February, the earlier B flat Sextet, -by this time almost popular in more than one Continental city, and long -known in New York through Mason's concerts, was performed for the first -time in England at the Monday Popular Concerts, St. James's Hall, -London, by Joachim, Louis Ries, Henry Blagrove, Zerbini, Paque, and -Piatti. The director, S. Arthur Chappell, printed a notice in the -programme-books to the effect that he introduced the work by Joachim's -desire. It made no impression, and the composer was not again heard at -the Popular Concerts for five years. - -If the recognition of Brahms' exact claims as a composer, even by his -Austrian public, long remained dubious, his qualities as a pianist -seldom failed to evoke unmistakable signs of their warm approval. With -the arrival of March he prevailed upon himself this year to announce -concerts in Vienna, Graz, Klagenfurth, and Pesth, and the success of -his performances was unequivocal, in spite of the approach of spring and -the unusual warmth of the season. - - 'At last a pianist who entirely takes hold of one,' exclaims - Schelle, writing of the first concert; 'one only needs to hear his - first few chords to be convinced that Herr Brahms is a player of - quite extraordinary stamp. The musical critic of the _Wiener - Zeitung_ writes that Herr Brahms was cordially received by his - "party." We may remark that Brahms was received, not by a "party," - but by the entire very numerous public, with applause such as is - seldom heard in Vienna concert-rooms. If, however, the audience of - the evening is to be described as the "party" of the distinguished - artist, it must be said that his party consists of the cultivated - experts of musical Vienna.' - -The instrumental numbers of the programme were Beethoven's Fantasia, Op. -77; Bach's G major Fantasia; Brahms' Scherzo; Schumann's Etudes -Symphoniques; Brahms' Paganini Variations. The concert-giver played as -an additional piece his own arrangement for the pianoforte of the fugue -from Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 59, No. 3, - - 'which,' says Schelle, 'claims almost more admiration even than his - performance, for it is a most faithful reflection of the entire - score which we meet unchanged in the effective costume.' - -At the second concert in Vienna, which took place on April 7, after -Brahms' return from the provinces, the programme included Bach's F major -Toccata; Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 109; Brahms' Handel Variations and -Fugue; Schumann's Fantasia in C, Op. 17; and short pieces by Scarlatti -and Schubert. As an additional piece, an arrangement of a movement from -Schubert's Octet was conceded. Vocal numbers were included in both -programmes. - -Brahms himself mentions the concerts in a letter to Dietrich. - - 'The result was so good in every respect,' he writes, 'that I must - call myself doubly an ass for not having secured it earlier and - taken the opportunity to get rid of my Requiem.' - -He let the work lie for several months longer, however, without coming -to any decision about it. On July 30 he again wrote to Dietrich: - - '... In all haste: I start to-morrow with my father on a little - tour through Upper Austria. I do not know when I shall be back. - Keep the accompanying Requiem until I write to you. Don't let it go - out of your hands and write to me very seriously by-and-by what you - think of it. - - 'An _offer_ from Bremen would be very acceptable to me. - - 'It would have to be combined with a concert engagement. In short - _Reinthaler_ must probably be sufficiently pleased with the thing - to do something for it. - - 'For the rest, I am inclined to let such matters quietly alone, for - I do not intend to worry myself about them. - - 'I am ready for anything from Christmas onwards. Joachim and I - probably gave concerts here before.' - -There is a trace of nervous anxiety in this letter which leaves little -doubt that Brahms had within him the consciousness that in the German -Requiem he had transcended all his previous achievements, and that he -was even unusually anxious to ensure a favourable opportunity for the -hearing of his new work. Until now it had been submitted to none of his -companions, save, perhaps, Joachim, and it is evident that he did not -easily bring himself to the resolution of sending it away even for -Dietrich's sympathetic inspection, and that, whilst he hoped, he -somewhat dreaded to hear the result of a communication with Reinthaler. -We must postpone for awhile our account of the fortunes of the -manuscript in order to follow our musician on his holiday journey, on -which he no doubt started with a mind sufficiently relieved by the mere -fact of his decision to be able to await with composure the next issues -of fate. - -Herr königlich Musikdirektor Carl Martin Reinthaler (born 1822), -municipal music-director of Bremen and organist of the cathedral, to -whom the manuscript is meanwhile to be submitted, was a distinguished -musician and the composer of numerous works in very varied forms, vocal -and instrumental. His oratorio 'Jepthah' was performed in London in -1856 under John Hullah's direction; several of his operas--'Käthchen von -Heilbronn,' 'Edda,' etc.--composed later in his career, were given with -success in Bremen, Hanover, and other towns; and his 'Bismarck Hymn' won -the prize in a competition adjudged at Dortmund. By his talent and -earnestness in his position as conductor of the orchestral concerts at -Bremen, he did much to raise the standard of musical taste in the city. - -[11] 'Josef lieber, Josef mein, - hilf mir wieg'n mein Kindlein fein. - Gott der wird dein Lohner sein - in Himmelreich der Jungfrau Sohn, Maria.' - - (Joseph dearest, Joseph mine, - Help me rock the babe divine. - Heaven's blessing shall be thine - In th' kingdom of the Virgin's Son, Mariè.) - -[12] Personally communicated to the author by Herr Hofcapellmeister -Dietrich. - -[13] From a letter published by Richard Heuberger (_Beilage zur Allg. -Musikzeitung_, 1899, No. 260). - -[14] Brahms, by giving to the variations the second title of Studies for -the Pianoforte, has sufficiently indicated the intention with which he -placed them before the world. - -[15] The date of the publication of the Horn Trio is given in Simrock's -Thematic Catalogue as 1868. - -[16] See p. 167, vol. i. - -[17] 'Briefe von Theodor Billroth' (sixth enlarged edition). - -[18] 'Neujahrsblatt der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft in Zürich,' 1898. - -[19] The author is indebted for this and a few other extracts from Frau -Schumann's diary to the kindness of Fräulein Marie Schumann. - -[20] The date assigned to this letter in Dietrich's 'Recollections' is -one amongst several similar mistakes that occur in the volume. They are -to be explained by the circumstances that Brahms rarely put dates to his -letters, and that those in question were supplied from memory. - -[21] 'Briefe u. Schriften von Hans von Bülow.' Published by Marie von -Bülow. - - - - - CHAPTER XIV - 1867-1869 - - 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 Stockhausen in North - Germany and Denmark--Performance of the German Requiem in Bremen - Cathedral--Brahms settles finally in Vienna--Brahms and Stockhausen - give concerts in Vienna and Budapest. - - -Our composer's invitation to his father to accompany him on a tour -amongst the Austrian Alps had mightily gratified Jakob. The violinist, -young Carl Bade, happening to call at the Anscharplatz on the day of his -start for Vienna, found him carefully dressed for the journey, and in a -high state of elation and delight. Wrapping himself in an air of -mysterious mock dignity, he scarcely vouchsafed a word of greeting to -his wondering young friend, but, drawing himself up to his full height, -gravely adjusted his necktie and paced the room in silence. Then, coming -to a standstill, he pursed up his lips and looked at Bade with an -expression of sly significance. 'Min Hannes het mi inladt; ick reis mit -min Hannes' (My Hannes has invited me; I travel with my Hannes), he said -in answer to Bade's demands for an explanation. A glimpse of him on his -arrival is afforded by the recollection of Dr. Josef Gänsbacher, who was -to accompany father and son on their journey, and, calling to make last -arrangements with Johannes, found Jakob with him. The manuscript of the -beautiful song 'Mainacht,' which had that day been composed, was at -hand, and at his friend's request Gänsbacher sang it then and there, and -added the lovely 'Wie bist du meine Königin' for the benefit of the -elder Brahms, who expressed himself, as in duty bound, pleased with the -songs, and was undoubtedly gratified by the compliment paid him. - -The route chosen by the travellers lay through Styria and Carinthia, -regions abounding in grand and romantic scenery of mountain, lake and -forest; but though Johannes, an inveterate optimist in many ways, talked -afterwards of his father's enjoyment of the journey, it is to be feared -that Jakob, who had scarcely quitted Hamburg since his arrival there as -a youth of nineteen, did not develop any great appreciation of the -beauties of nature. He managed the ascent of the Hochschwab, or part of -it, on foot, but it was a great deal too much for him. He was too old -and too heavy to begin an apprenticeship as a mountaineer, and on the -next expedition of the kind made by Johannes and Gänsbacher he remained -behind at the village of Wildalpen. He got on much better when walking -on the even, but wisely made no attempt to emulate the indefatigable -pedestrian powers of his son, who would frequently stride on until he -was an hour ahead of his companions. Jakob was better able to appreciate -those parts of the journey which were accomplished by carriage or boat, -though even there he spoke but little, perhaps hardly knowing how to -express himself. One day, however, when the three travellers were on the -Grundlsee, one of the most secluded and romantic of the Austrian lakes, -he stood up and looked slowly round him, as if impressed by the beauty -of the scene. 'Just like the Alster at home in Hamburg,' he remarked at -length, as he sat down again. - -Johannes fell in with some parties of his Austrian friends during the -expedition, and was plainly gratified by the consideration shown to his -father by one and all. One enthusiastic lady went so far as to bestow a -kiss on the old man--an attention which procured him some good-natured -raillery from his son, and which he discreetly left unmentioned for some -time after his return to the Anscharplatz. He went back by way of -Heidelberg, stopping to see the castle and other attractions by the -desire of Johannes, and, a little while after reaching home, received -from Vienna a souvenir of the doubtful pleasures of his journey in the -shape of some mountain charts of the districts through which he had -travelled, with blue lines drawn to mark the summits he had been able to -attain by mountain railways or other mechanical means of transit. The -maps, carefully preserved by Jakob, remain as a memorial of the -composer's loving thought of his father, whom he indulged and spoilt -almost like a petted child at this period of his life. - -The journey over, Brahms' thoughts reverted to the manuscript which he -had confided to Dietrich's care, and as soon as he was back in Vienna he -wrote to beg for its return: - - 'DEAR ALBERT, - - 'Please send my score back to me as soon as possible and turn the - opportunity to good account by enclosing this and that--above all a - long letter. - - 'I had the great pleasure of having my father with me for some - weeks. We made a pleasant tour through Styria and Salzburg. Imagine - what enjoyment my father's pleasure gave me, he had never seen a - mountain.... - - 'Now I think of remaining here quietly; it is unfortunately useless - for me to make plans, for only that happens which comes of itself. - - 'Nevertheless I wish to have the Requiem in my own cupboard again, - so send....'[22] - -To this note Dietrich returned no answer, and Brahms, becoming -impatient, applied for information as to the whereabouts of his work to -Joachim, who wrote back that it was in Reinthaler's keeping. Possibly -Brahms may have been a little startled at finding that Dietrich, in his -eager friendship, had put such an elastic interpretation upon the -mention of the Bremen director quoted in our last chapter as to pass -over the injunction not to part with the manuscript; but however this -may be, he cannot but have been gratified at finding, as the result, -that the musician of his own selection had been so impressed by the work -as to wish to produce it at the earliest appropriate opportunity in the -cathedral of Bremen. It is known to some of Reinthaler's old friends -that he suggested the enlargement of the work to the dimensions of an -oratorio. That Brahms did not entertain the proposal is matter of -history. - -The first performance of the Requiem, as originally completed, to be -given under Brahms' direction in Bremen Cathedral, was fixed for Good -Friday, April 10, 1868. Meanwhile the composer's engagements kept him in -Austria. The first three numbers of the new work were to be produced -under Herbeck at the Gesellschaft concert of December 1, and a tour -arranged with Joachim for the ante-Christmas concert-season included -concerts in Vienna, Budapest, and various provincial towns. The journey, -which opened at Vienna on November 9, was triumphantly successful. -Joachim performed the great solos of his répertoire by Bach, Tartini, -and Spohr, and shorter pieces by Schumann and Paganini, with all of -which concert-goers are now familiar, appearing also on his own account -in several great orchestral concerts. Brahms played works by Bach, -Schumann, Schubert, and some of his own compositions. Together the -concert-givers were heard in several of Beethoven's duet Sonatas, -Schubert's Fantasia, Op. 159, and Rondo Brilliant, Op. 70, etc. - -'When Brahms and Joachim play Beethoven, Bach, Schubert together, the -conceptions are like living tone pictures,' says Billroth, who, called -to Vienna about a year after his first acquaintance with Brahms at -Zürich and settled there for good, had the delight of receiving and -hearing his two great artist friends at his house several times during -the two months of Joachim's stay. - -The Gesellschaft concert of December 1 was devoted to the memory of -Schubert, and the three first numbers of the German Requiem formed an -appropriate first portion of a programme of which the second half -consisted of a selection from Schubert's music to 'Rosamund,' given for -the first time in a concert-room. The choruses were, of course, sung by -the Singverein, and Dr. Pänzer, of the imperial chapel, was responsible -for the baritone solo of the Requiem. - -The performance of Brahms' movements did not result in a success, though -the two first were received with some tokens of approval. At the -conclusion of the third an extraordinary scene took place. The now -celebrated pedal point,[23] on which the last section of this number is -constructed, produced--partly owing to a mistake of the drummer, who -drowned the chorus by playing the famous 'D' _forte_ throughout--a -condition of nervous tension in a portion of the audience, a longing to -be relieved from the monotony of the one dominating sound; and when the -composer appeared on the platform in answer to the calls of some of his -hearers, unmistakable demonstrations of hostility mingled with the -plaudits. It may, indeed, be confidently surmised, and cannot appear -surprising, that but few even of those who supported him on this -occasion had any clear conception either of the meaning or importance of -his work. To Hanslick it appeared - - 'one of the ripest fruits in the domain of sacred music, developed - out of the style of Beethoven's late works.... The harmonic and - contrapuntal art learnt by Brahms in the school of Bach, and - inspired by him with the living breath of the present, is almost - forgotten in the expression of touching lament, increasing to the - annihilating death-shudder.' - -Of its reception he says: - - 'It is intelligible that a composition so difficult to understand, - and which deals only with ideas of death, is not adapted for - popular success and that it does not entirely answer to the demands - of a great public. We should have supposed, however, that a - presentiment of the greatness and seriousness of the work would - have suggested itself even to those who do not like it and would - have won their respect. This seems not to have been the case with - half a dozen gray-haired fanatics of the old school, who had the - rudeness to greet the applauding majority and the composer, as he - appeared, with prolonged hissing--a requiem on the decorum and good - manners of a Vienna concert-room which astonishes and grieves us.' - -Schelle, after reviewing the first number sympathetically and the second -almost enthusiastically, continues: - - 'Unfortunately the third is extremely inferior to it [No. 2]; the - text demanded a strong increase of effect which the composer has - been incapable of giving. The bass solo is not written gratefully - for the voice and there is much that is obtrusively bizarre and - unedifying in the chorus.... The movement was a failure....' - -Hirsch did not fail to make use of his opportunity in the _Wiener -Zeitung_. He speaks of the 'heathenish noise of the kettledrums,' and -declares 'in the interest of truth' that the opposition party in the -audience had an immense majority.' - -The concert is mentioned by Billroth in a letter dated December 24: - - 'I like Brahms better every time I meet him. Hanslick says, quite - rightly, that he has the same fault as Bach and Beethoven; he has - too little of the sensuous in his art both as composer and pianist. - I think it is rather an intentional avoidance of everything - sensuous as of a fault. His Requiem is so nobly spiritual and so - Protestant-Bachish that it was difficult to make it go down here. - The hissing and clapping became really violent; it was a party - conflict. In the end the applause conquered.' - -It is characteristic of Brahms that his belief in the future of his work -was not diminished by the untoward incidents of this occasion. He looked -forward to the result of the coming performance in Bremen with a -confidence that was even enhanced by the fact that he had gained -experience with respect to the instrumentation of the third chorus. - -He sent part of his manuscript to Marxsen with a letter from which the -following quotation was first published by Sittard in his 'Studien und -Charakteristiken': - - 'I send you some novelties and beg you, if time allows, to write me - _one_ or _many_ words about them. I enclose also something from my - Requiem and _on this I earnestly beg you to write to me_. It looks - rather curious in places and perhaps, in order to spare my - manuscript, you would take some music paper and put down useful - remarks. _I should like that very much._ The eternal "D" in No. 3. - If I do not use the organ it does not sound. There is much I should - like to ask. I hope you have time and some inclination; then you - will perceive at once what there is to ask and what to say.' - -It is, as Hanslick observed, by no means unintelligible that the first -part of the German Requiem was not immediately accepted by the general -body of listeners assembled at the Gesellschaft concert of December 1, -unprepared as they were for the new and important element underlying its -conception. The title chosen by the composer was at the time, and has -been occasionally since, demurred to as misleading, on account of the -long association of the term Requiem with the ritual of the Roman -Church. It should, however, be obvious that by the word 'German' -departure is indicated from the practice of previous composers, which -places the composition in a category of its own and gives to its message -an applicableness beyond the limitations of creed. Brahms arranged his -own words, and by the fact of doing so, by his inspired musical -treatment of his texts, and his direct avoidance of giving to his work -an association with a particular church service or a familiar musical -form, requiem or mass, cantata or oratorio, has preserved in it, whether -or not consciously, an element of personal fervour that constitutes part -of the secret of its spell. - -The texts, culled from various books of the Old and New Testaments and -the Apocrypha,[24] have been chosen, with entire absence of so-called -doctrinal purpose, as parts of the people's book, of Luther's Bible, the -accepted representative to Protestant nations of the highest aspirations -of man, and have been so arranged as to present in succession the -ascending ideas of sorrow consoled, doubt overcome, death vanquished. -That they open and close with the thought of love is not of necessity -to be ascribed solely to the artistic requirements of the work, or the -exigencies of its sacred theme. Whoever has studied Brahms' life and -works with sympathetic insight will be aware that the suggestion of love -triumphant runs through both like a continuous silver thread, and it is -open to those who choose, to accept this as indicative of a faith -dwelling within him, which was none the less fruitful for good because -it knew nothing of the dogma of the Churches. - -The opening chorus of the Requiem furnishes the key-note of its spirit: - -'_Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. He that -goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come -again with joy, bearing his sheaves with him. They that sow in tears -shall reap in joy._' - -What more reassuring prelude could prepare the human soul for encounter -with its most dreaded foe than these inspired words, heard in the -exquisite setting of consolation by which the composer has illumined -their meaning? The tenderness of the benediction, the passion of the -anticipation, the recurring mournful calm that dies away in the softest -whisper of comfort, place the mind in an attitude of awed suspense which -finds its solution in the opening bars of the solemn, mysterious march -of the second movement. Here we are surely in the majestic presence of -death incarnate, wrapped, however, in a haze of beauty, sorrow, -tenderness, compassion, that betoken, not the ruthless enemy of mankind, -but a deeply mournful messenger subdued to a Divine purpose. '_Behold, -all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of -grass_,' chant the altos and tenors in unison an octave above the -basses, something of unearthliness in their tones, with the alternate -repetitions of the march; and the delicate, evanescent harmonies of the -answering phrase, '_The grass withereth, the flower fadeth_,' strangely -deepen the impression of transitoriness conveyed by the text. Relief is -given by a middle episode of somewhat more animated character: '_Be -patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the -husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath, long -patience for it until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also -patient._' The final ending of the march, which is repeated after the -episode, is succeeded by the outburst of a transitional passage--'_God's -word endureth for ever_'--leading to the vigorous gladness of the second -section of the movement (fugato)--'_And the ransomed of the Lord shall -return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: -they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee -away_'--whose ringing, jubilant tones are checked only by the passing -shade of sorrow, until it subsides into the more tranquilly happy mood -in which the chorus terminates. - -In the third number the vision alters. To exaltation succeeds abasement. -We are shown the despondency, that is almost despair, of the soul -prostrate before its Lord: '_Lord, make me to know mine end, and the -number of my days what it is, that I may know how frail I am_.' The -movement opens with a baritone solo, supported by basses, drums, and -horn, which seems to crave nothing, hope for nothing. Words and melody -are, however, immediately repeated in chorus with plain harmonies that -somewhat relieve the first impressive gloom. Then there is a change. The -final cadence of the solo[25] becomes, in the chorus, a surprise cadence -upon which the baritone re-enters: '_Behold, thou hast made my days as -an handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee_.' The tension -relaxes, and a note of pleading makes itself felt that is strengthened -in the choral repetition of the phrase by the movement of the -accompanying instruments. Through despondency, through resignation, -through questioning, the soul gradually rises to hope: '_Verily man at -his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain -show, surely they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and -knoweth not who shall gather them. Now, Lord, what do I wait for?_' The -pleading becomes importunity, and the crisis is reached with the -reiteration of the last words, first in an increasing agitation, and -finally in deliberate, hushed tones that seem to challenge the Lord. The -effect that follows is, perhaps, unsurpassed in its pure loveliness -throughout the domain of sacred music. With the passage '_My hope is in -thee_' all doubt is resolved in a glow of warmth, reconciliation, and -trust, and the perfect assurance of faith, '_The souls of the righteous -are in God's hand_' becomes the subject of an accompanied choral fugue, -constructed from beginning to end upon a tonic pedal point, which -establishes the brief inspiration of the transition passage in a -protracted expression of unshakable confidence, and forms, not only the -climax of the movement, but the first climax of the entire work. In it -the soul attains to an elevation of faith from which it does not again -falter. Though sorrow may not yet be finally subdued, doubt is -conquered, and the fourth number--'_How amiable are thy dwellings, O -Lord of Hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the -Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Blessed are -they that dwell in thy house; they will be still praising thee_'--is a -clear, melodious choral song with a flowing accompaniment, harmonized -simply, and with an occasional point of imitation, that expresses simple -affection and trust, emphasized towards the close of the movement by the -employment of increased contrapuntal resource. - -The fifth number, added, as we have said, after the work was first -finished, and not essential to its conception as a whole, may have been -conceded to some need of contrast felt by the composer on hearing the -completed six movements consecutively. It consists of a very beautiful -soprano solo with chorus, of rather mystic character, to the words '_And -ye now are sorrowful. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I -comfort you._' - -The sixth chorus opens with a dirge--'_For we have no abiding city, but -we seek one to come_'--soon to be interrupted by the baritone solo: -'_Behold, I shew you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall be -changed._' The words are repeated by the chorus with a heightening -agitation of mysterious expectancy, that leaps suddenly at the clarion -call to tumultuous exultation: '_In a moment, in the twinkling of an -eye, at the trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be -raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed._' The wild agitation is -stayed by the quiet message of the solo, '_Then shall be brought to pass -the saying that is written_,' and a prolonged half-cadence leads to the -re-entry of the chorus in a magnificently-sustained inspiration of -triumphant joy: '_Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is -thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?_' The glorious movement, after -mounting from height to height of power and splendour, suddenly, with an -unexpected change of time and key, reaches its climax in a brilliant -fugue, that seems, with its passion of never-ending praise, to reopen -the door of heaven and to transport the soul of the hearer to the -dazzling scene of the throne that is filled with the ineffable presence -of God: '_Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive honour and power, for thou -hast created all things, and for thy good pleasure they are and were -created._' - -The great work has now reached its final climax. The imagination of the -modern seer, soaring beyond sorrow, doubt, death, has pierced for a -moment through the mystery of things and shown us the unspeakable. But -the vision is not yet at an end. As in the writing of the Revelation of -St. John, so in the inspired music of the German Requiem. After the -lightnings and thunders and all the manifold glory of the throne, the -voice of the spirit: '_Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord -henceforth; Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their -labours, and their works do follow them._' Confident, tender, majestic, -the message floats through the seventh movement, a veritable requiem, a -true song of peace, and, heard at length in the tones of the benediction -with which the work opens, sinks into silence with reiteration of -blessing. - -It would be an attractive task to analyze the technical means that -Brahms has employed to give musical expression to the varied ideas, all -rooted in the central one of overruling love, which together form the -subject of this exalted work. Whilst he has used the resources of -classical art with a power and ease that recall the mastery of Bach and -Handel, he has given warmth and life to his creation by availing himself -of the harmonic development of musical means to which the genius of -Schumann gave such strong stimulus. Wisely conservative, he was also -modern in the best sense, nor could the German Requiem have attained the -position it has won in the hearts of thousands of men and women to whom -it has brought comfort in bereavement or solace in times of mental -distress, if he had not understood and shared in the spirit, and -answered to it in an idiom, proper to his time. This should not be -forgotten in the performance of the great work, which is sometimes given -with a cold, formal correctness supposed to be appropriate in the case -of classical compositions. Brahms was not a pedant, but a poet and -idealist, and the full beauty and fascination of his music is disclosed -only when it is interpreted with the insight that is born of enthusiasm -and imagination. - -The Horn Trio was played in Vienna at the Hellmesberger Quartet concert -of December 29 by Brahms, Hellmesberger, and Kleinecke. Kleinecke -performed on the natural horn, and the beauty of his tone was remarked -on by one or two of the critics. The trio was received not unfavourably, -but with the reserve that usually attended the early performances of the -composer's works in the imperial capital at this period of his career. - -The publications of the year were but two in number--the set of sixteen -Waltzes for four hands on the Piano, dedicated to Hanslick; and a book -of five Songs for men's four-part Chorus, both issued in the spring by -Rieter-Biedermann. Several, at least, of the waltzes date from the -Detmold period, and were played by Brahms, and heard by Carl von -Meysenbug, at the Hôtel Stadt Frankfurt. They are inimitable in their -delicate, caressing grace, and possess a charm which perhaps exceeds -that of any known examples of their kind. They were performed from the -manuscript, as finally arranged for publication, by Frau Schumann and -Dietrich at a music party given by the Grand-Duchess of Oldenburg in the -autumn of 1866. - -Joachim's prolonged visit to Austria came to an end in the second week -of the New Year with a farewell dinner given in his honour by Brahms, -Billroth, Hanslick, and other friends, and a fortnight later he removed -with his family from Hanover to Berlin. His residence was permanently -fixed in the Prussian capital in the course of the following year by his -acceptance of the post of director of the Royal High School for Music -(executive art), which was about to be founded by King William of -Prussia (afterwards the German Emperor William I.), as an addition to -the State department for Art and Science, and in the planning and -practical arrangement of which Joachim actively participated. Under his -devoted management, it quickly rose to the high state of prosperity for -which it has long been famous, and now, after more than thirty-five -years of existence, it still enjoys the high advantage and distinction -of his personal labour and influence as director, conductor, and -teacher. The occasion of the opening in 1902, by the Emperor William -II., of the spacious new buildings of the Royal Schools for Art and -Science at Charlottenburg, of which the fine new music school is one, -must have seemed to the great veteran musician, as he recalled the -modest beginnings of his own special department in 1869, as one that -included the crowning of much of the activity of his life. - -Brahms quitted Vienna a few weeks after his friend to fulfil a series of -concert engagements, most of them arranged with Stockhausen, for the -months of February and March, by which he hoped to make his journey to -North Germany on the business of the Requiem answer a practical as well -as an artistic purpose. He took up his headquarters at his father's -house, and it was the last time that he returned from Vienna to Hamburg -as to his nominal home. The post of conductor of the Philharmonic had -again fallen vacant in 1867 by Stockhausen's resignation, and again, -though Brahms did not apply for the appointment, there was a strong -conviction amongst his friends that he would accept it if it were -offered him. But it was not to be. Admired and loved as he was in -Hamburg by an ever-increasing circle of friends, it was by a circle -only. He was not popular with the average musician or the general -public, and the Philharmonic committee passed him over a second time, -electing Julius von Bernuth as Stockhausen's successor. Brahms said -little on the subject, but it is fairly certain that the mortification -caused him by this repeated slight from the musical officialdom of his -native city sufficed to lead him to the determination at which he soon -afterwards arrived, to settle permanently in Vienna. - -Brahms made several public appearances in Hamburg during the second half -of February. He performed, at the Philharmonic concert of the 14th, -Beethoven's G major Concerto and Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques, adding -to the published version of the latter several variations contained in -Schumann's original manuscript. On the same occasion Stockhausen sang -Schubert's songs 'Memnon' and 'Geheimniss' to orchestral accompaniments -arranged by Brahms, at his request, a year or two previously. The -composer was able to spare a few days for Bremen, in order to make -Reinthaler's personal acquaintance, though his numerous engagements for -March obliged him to leave the work of preparation and rehearsal in the -experienced hands of his new friend. He played at the Oldenburg -subscription concert of the 4th,[26] and gave concerts with Stockhausen -during the same week in Dresden and Berlin, appearing for the first time -before the public of either capital. At the second concert in Berlin -(March 7) Nos. 3 and 5 of the 'Magelone Romances' were included in the -programme. On the 11th the two artists gave a soirée in Hamburg, when -Stockhausen introduced Brahms' 'Mailied' and 'Von ewiger Liebe' from the -manuscripts, and gave several folk-songs as an encore. At Kiel, where -they appeared on the 13th, they made the acquaintance of Löwe, the -famous ballad composer, now a man of seventy-two, with whose music -Brahms proved to be thoroughly familiar. Their next destination was -Copenhagen, where they had arranged to give four concerts. Stockhausen's -selection on the first of these occasions included songs by Stradella, -Schubert, and Boieldieu, all accompanied by Brahms, who performed as his -solos a Toccata and Fugue by Sebastian Bach Andante by Friedemann Bach, -two Scarlatti movements, Beethoven's Sonata in E flat, Op. 27, and, of -his own compositions, Variations on an original theme and the early -Scherzo in E flat minor. Both artists awakened a furore. Stockhausen -'electrified the house'; Brahms was 'enormously applauded,' especially -after the performance of his own compositions. The second concert, given -within the next few days, was equally successful. The concert-room was -crowded, the audience extraordinarily enthusiastic, and the financial -result brilliant beyond expectation. Then Brahms committed a _faux pas_, -which put an end, so far as he was concerned, to further result of the -triumph. - -Being asked, at a party given by the Danish composer Niels Gade in his -and Stockhausen's honour, if he had visited and admired the great -Thorwaldsen Museum, of which the citizens of Copenhagen are so justly -proud, he replied in the affirmative, and added that the building and -its collection were so fine it was to be regretted they were not in -Berlin. This unfortunate remark, made in a circle representative of -educated Danish society, where the remembrance of the recent Prussian -occupation of Schleswig-Holstein was still sore, produced an effect -which the speaker had been far from intending. It was regarded as a -deliberate insult to the country in which Brahms had been a fêted guest, -and was resented so strongly as to make the composer's reappearance on a -Copenhagen platform impossible. Pursuing the wisest course open, he -embarked on the next boat for Kiel, leaving Stockhausen to make such -arrangements as he could for the third advertised concert, and to pursue -his success further by associating himself with Joachim, who was about -to pay a short visit to the Danish capital. - -Arriving at Kiel at a very early hour in the morning, Brahms proceeded -to the house of Claus Groth, whose guest he had been on his outward -journey, and, walking in the garden until the inmates were astir, was -presently greeted by his friend from an upper window. 'Be quick and come -out; I have made a heap of money,' he cried in answer, slapping his -pocket. Coffee was soon served and a lively talk ensued, but, as no -explanation was offered by Brahms of his sudden reappearance, Groth at -length began to question him. 'What have you been about that you have, -so to say, run away? Stockhausen has not returned, and you have had -great success?' And thus brought to the point, the delinquent was -obliged to relate his indiscretion. 'Brahms! how could you have said -such a thing in a company of Danes!' cried Groth. 'I only meant,' -replied Brahms, 'that it would be better if so fine a work, so many -beautiful objects, were in a great centre where many people could see -them.' 'But you might have supposed Danes would not put up with such a -remark.' 'It did not occur to me,' answered Brahms. 'However,' he added -after a moment, 'I have earned so much money I shall not want more for a -long time; so the matter is indifferent to me.' - -Brahms arrived in Bremen on the first day of April, to remain until -after the 10th as the guest of Reinthaler, with whom he soon became -intimate. Appreciation of his works had steadily grown in the artistic -circles of Bremen since the musical life of the city had been under the -leadership of the distinguished artist whose name will remain associated -with the first performance of the then complete German Requiem; and the -Good Friday concert of this year was anticipated with the interest -attaching to an event of unusual importance, the more so as many -distinguished visitors from far and near were expected to be present as -performers or in the audience. To the gratification of the former -members of the Ladies' Choir, Brahms expressed a wish that the old -favourite society should be represented in the chorus, and four of the -most enthusiastic and trusty of his quondam disciples--Fräulein Garbe, -Fräulein Reuter, Fräulein Seebohm, and Fräulein Marie Völckers--answered -to his summons, arriving at Bremen in time to take part in the last -general rehearsal. The programme of the sacred concert, the proceeds of -which were to be devoted to the Bremen musicians' provident fund, -included the German Requiem (baritone solo, Stockhausen), between the -first and second parts of which, some of the miscellaneous items were -placed; movements by Bach and Tartini, and Schumann's Abendlied for -violin (Joachim); 'I know that my Redeemer liveth' (Frau Joachim); air -for contralto with violin obligato from Bach's 'Matthew Passion' (Frau -Joachim and Joachim); and the 'Hallelujah' chorus. Brahms was to conduct -his new work, Reinthaler the remaining selections. All the soloists gave -their services. - -The doors of St. Peter's Cathedral Church opened punctually at six -o'clock on Good Friday evening, and during the next hour the visitors, -many of them old acquaintances of the reader, streamed to their places. -Frau Reinthaler and Frau Stockhausen were of course present. The -Dietrichs, with their friend Fräulein Berninger, came from Oldenburg, -the Grimms from Münster. The Hamburg contingent included Minna Völckers, -the composer's former pupil and very stanch friend, now grown up into a -young lady, and her father, who had invited Jakob Brahms to accompany -them as his guest. Max Bruch, Schübring, and young Richard Barth were -there. Switzerland was represented by the future publisher of the -Requiem, Rieter-Biedermann; England by the enthusiastic John Farmer; and -shortly before the time of commencement Frau Schumann walked up the nave -on Brahms' arm. She had arranged that her intention of making the -journey from Baden-Baden with her daughter Marie should be kept a secret -from the composer, and the two ladies surprised him with their greeting -at the cathedral door. - -No pains had been spared in the preparation of chorus and orchestra, and -their difficult tasks were perfectly achieved. - - 'The impression made by the wonderful, splendidly performed work - was quite overpowering,' says Dietrich, 'and it immediately became - clear to the listeners that the German Requiem would live as one of - the most exalted creations of musical art.' - -The composer, the executants, and their friends, to the number of about -a hundred, met for supper in the ancient Rathskeller close to the -cathedral, and listened afterwards to a short address by Consul -Hirschfeld and to about a dozen other speeches. - - 'It is with great pleasure and justifiable pride,' said Reinthaler, - 'that I greet this distinguished assemblage of visitors, some of - them gathered to perform, and others to hear, the new work of the - composer who is staying in our midst. The circumstance that it has - been performed for the first time here in Bremen gives me quite - peculiar happiness. It is a great and beautiful--one may say, an - epoch-making work, which has filled us who have heard it to-day - with pride, since it has inspired in us the conviction that German - art has not died out, but that it begins to stir again and will - thrive as gloriously as of old. - - 'A gloomy, anxious period has intervened since our last dear master - was carried to the grave;[27] it has almost seemed as though the - evening of musical art had fallen upon us; but to-day we are - reassured. In the German Requiem we believe that we have a sequel - worthy of the achievements of the great masters of the past. - - 'That I have had the good fortune to contribute towards ensuring a - not quite unworthy performance of the work gives me lively - satisfaction. Everyone concerned, however, has supported me to this - end. Each has brought cheerful good-will to his task, and devoted - himself to it with active zeal and unmixed enthusiasm, for each - felt it to be an elevating one. - - 'You will all certainly rejoice with me that the creator of the - glorious work is present amongst us and will joyfully raise your - glasses to the health of the composer, our Brahms.' - -Brahms' answer was characteristically short and to the purpose: - - 'If I venture to say a few words to-night, I must premise that the - gift of oratory is in no wise at my command. There are, however, - amongst those present, many to whom I wish to say a word of thanks, - many dear friends who have been kind and good to me, and this is - especially the case with my friend Reinthaler, who has given - himself with such self-sacrifice to the preparation of my Requiem. - I place my collective thanks upon his head therefore, and call for - three cheers for his name.' - -It may surprise and interest English readers to know that their country -was toasted on an occasion so peculiarly representative of German music -and musicians. After the various artists who had assisted in the -performance and one or two of the other distinguished guests had been -duly honoured, John Farmer rose to his feet, and delivered himself of -his sentiments in such German as he could command. - - 'I have come from a city,' he said, 'that is much larger than - Bremen, in which there are many fine houses and many rich men. You, - however, may be prouder than all the rich men in the big houses, - who are, indeed, very unfortunate. They have no such beautiful - music as you in Germany. If you were to come to England, and Brahms - himself were to come with you, to perform the Requiem, they would - not attend the concert, or if they were to attend it they would - say, "Is the fellow crazy?" You can have no idea how fortunate you - are in being able to understand all this beautiful music. Oh, I - have observed and have perceived that each one has followed it with - love and the whole energy of his soul! When I return to England, I - shall relate what I have seen, and will hope that we may, before - long, become as fortunate as yourselves and may be able to - understand and perform German music as you do.' - -England found its defender in Herr Lehmann, who immediately rose to -reply: - - 'I would venture, nevertheless, to say a word in England's honour. - So many artists have met with an encouraging reception or have - found a happy home there; there are so many Englishmen who - understand and sympathize with German art and German life, that I - would beg leave to propose a glass to the honour of art-loving - England.' - -The feeling of satisfaction expressed in Reinthaler's speech that the -distinction of the first performance of the German Requiem should have -fallen to Bremen was generally shared by the musicians and amateurs of -the city. - -'Reinthaler has, with laudable judgment, concentrated his best powers -upon the arrangement of a concert which has given to Bremen a -distinctive artistic reputation,' says the critic of the _Bremen -Courier_, and the sentiment was expressed practically, as well as -verbally, in a communication sent to the composer a few days after his -return to Hamburg. The work was repeated on Tuesday, April 28, in the -hall of the Union, under Reinthaler's direction, when the baritone solo -was sung by Franz Krolop. - -It is pleasant to be able to associate with the musical events of -1868--the year which, by virtue of the occurrences now recorded, marked -the beginning of a new period in Brahms' outward career and established -him in the eyes of the musicians of Europe as the greatest living artist -in his own domain--the name of an early friend whose skilled -appreciation of his genius had cheered and encouraged him in the dark -days of his youth. Frau Dr. Louise Langhans-Japha played the Quintet in -F minor for pianoforte and strings at her concert in the Salle Erard, -Paris, on March 24, and secured for it a very decided success. It is -impossible actually to affirm that the work was heard for the first time -in public in its final form on this occasion, but it is the first public -performance of which the author has been able to find record. - -Brahms stayed on in the north for several weeks after the Good Friday -concert at Bremen, and found time to pay another, this time a holiday, -visit to the Reinthalers, and to make the acquaintance of many of their -friends. He derived particular pleasure from the society of some small -playfellows who welcomed him to Frau Reinthaler's nursery, and struck up -a special friendship with the eldest daughter of the house, little -Henriette. Hearing the child, hardly out of baby years, practising the -treble of a little pianoforte duet, he proposed to take the bass, and, -amusing himself by striking a wrong note, was promptly rebuked by his -colleague. 'You have played a wrong note,' said Misi, stopping short. -'Nun, we must do it again,' returned Brahms penitently, and recommenced. -'You have played another!' cried Misi; nor could the master be -pronounced perfect in his part until after two more attempts. He -stayed, too, for a few days in Oldenburg, and whilst there made several -excursions in the neighbourhood with Dietrich and Reinthaler. Driving -one day to Wilhelmshaven, the great northern war-harbour of Germany, he -was unusually absent-minded and serious, and mentioned that he had been -much struck with Hölderlin's poem, 'Hyperion's Song of Destiny,' which -he had read in the morning for the first time. After inspecting the -harbour and its sights, he withdrew to a distant part of the beach, -where he was observed by his friends to be busy with pencil and paper. -He was putting down the first sketches of his now celebrated setting of -the work. - -Brahms spent the remainder of the year in Germany and Switzerland. After -attending the Rhine Festival held the last week of May in Cologne, he -settled down for some months at 6, Kessenicherweg, Bonn, in order to be -near Dr. Deiters, whom he met daily and admitted to his confidence on -the subject of his work. He was occupied with the final preparation of -the manuscript of the Requiem for the engraver, and played it through to -his friend, who had already studied it from the manuscript, saying, in -the course of the just-completed fifth number, '... _I will comfort you -as a mother comforts_,' that here he had thought of his mother.[28] He -was engaged again, also, with the C minor Pianoforte Quartet, which, as -we have seen,[29] has associations with a very much earlier period, and -played the sketches to Dr. Deiters, though the work was not finally -completed until after the further lapse of several years. The music to -Goethe's cantata 'Rinaldo' was in progress, and was finished shortly -before he quitted Bonn. Deiters was fortunate enough to have the -opportunity of listening, at his own house or in Brahms' rooms, to the -composer's interpretation of some of his published works, and to hear -his own opinion of many of his songs, which he estimated very variously. -Amongst those of which he thought most highly at this time was the 'Von -ewiger Liebe,' published later in the year as No. 1 of Op. 43. - -Brahms was in happy summer mood throughout the time of his sojourn on -the Rhine. The fondness for dumb pets that always characterized him, -though he kept none of his own, was gratified by the confidence of some -pigeons that used to fly into his room and come to him to be fed. He -invited his father to join him during the last ten days of his stay, and -pleased himself by showing him the Rhine country and introducing him to -his friend. It was the only year of his life during which there was -intimate personal intercourse between himself and Deiters, but the two -men remained in correspondence, and the composer frequently sent copies -of his new works as they appeared, with an autograph inscription, to the -critic whose early appreciation through a period when their personal -acquaintance had been of the slightest had awakened in him a strong -feeling of regard and esteem. 'I feel under a great debt of obligation -to friend Deiters,' he says in the course of a letter to Dietrich -written in 1867. - -Jakob Brahms was not allowed to return to Hamburg until he had a second -time tested his capacity for enjoying the delights of mountain scenery -by accompanying his son on a few weeks' journey in Switzerland; but -though Johannes made all possible arrangements to spare his father -fatigue, it became evident that he was very homesick. 'See, Johannes, -here is a little blue flower like that which grows near Hamburg,' he -said one day, lagging a little behind after he had walked some distance -in silence. An incident of the tour which pleased him, perhaps, better -than his pedestrian and driving experiences was the trial, at which he -was present, of the new movement of the Requiem, which the composer -wished to hear before delivering it for publication. This was arranged -for at Zürich by Hegar. Frau Suter-Weber undertook the soprano solo, and -orchestra and chorus were supplied by resident musicians. Jakob, on -this, as indeed on all occasions, fully appreciated the distinction he -derived from being his son's companion; but it is certain that he was -much relieved when the day came for him to return to his quiet home and -the unembarrassing society of his wife. 'Nu, Line, krigt mi Johannes nit -wieder hin' (Now, Lina, Johannes will not get me again), he said, as he -settled himself once more in his own chair; and he kept to his -determination, though he compromised matters on one or two subsequent -occasions by accepting his son's proposal that he should visit the Harz -and other districts in Frau Caroline's company. - -Of the many pleasant social events of the year, a gathering in the -autumn at Dietrich's house in Oldenburg remains for mention. Frau -Schumann, her daughter Marie, and Brahms enjoyed their old friends' -hospitality during the last week of October, and the visit was -signalized by the first performance from the manuscript, before a -private audience, of the Hungarian Dances in their arrangement for four -hands on the piano. - - 'Frau Schumann and Brahms played them with an inspiration and fire - that transported everyone present,' says Dietrich. - -Frau Schumann gave an evening concert in the hall of the Casino on the -30th, when her programme included her performance with the -composer--probably the first before a public audience--of Brahms' -Waltzes.[30] - -Brahms and Stockhausen again united their forces in November, and gave -several concerts together. At the first of two soirées in Hamburg, -Brahms created a furore with some of the Hungarian Dances in their -arrangement as solos. The programme included a performance by -Stockhausen and his pupil Fräulein Girzik of two of the Duets, Op. 28, -the second of which was rapturously encored. Brahms, as usual, -accompanied his friend throughout the evening. He was received with -acclamation at Bremen on the 30th of the month, when he played the -pianoforte part of his A major Quartet at a concert of the excellent -resident string quartet party led by Jacobsen, a fine player, and second -concertmeister of the Bremen orchestra. On this, as on subsequent -visits to Bremen, Brahms stayed, as a matter of course, with the -Reinthalers. - -Carl Bade, paying one of his frequent morning calls at the Anscharplatz -about this time, was startled as he entered the house by the appearance -of Jakob, who, coming towards him with finger on lip and laboriously -treading on tiptoe, solemnly whispered, 'Hush!...' 'What is it, Brahms? -Who is ill?' returned Bade under his breath, seriously alarmed. 'Hush!' -repeated Jakob as mysteriously as before; '_he is dor_' (he is there); -and, opening the door of the corner room, he pushed in the astonished -Carl and shut the door behind him without another word, leaving him -alone with his son, who was busy weeding out his library in readiness -for the despatch of his Hamburg possessions to Vienna. 'See here,' said -Johannes, after a kind word of greeting, giving Bade time to recover the -composure of which Jakob's strange _coup_ had for a moment robbed him, -by pointing to a volume in his hand, 'Kuhnau was a capable musician!' - -The relation existing at this time between the elder and younger Brahms, -of which mention was made in an early chapter, was well illustrated -during the homely 'second breakfast' for which the party soon assembled. -Sociability was rendered impossible, in spite of the persistent efforts -of Johannes, by the father's overwhelming consciousness of his son's -presence. The awed feeling which possessed Jakob whenever he found -himself face to face with the living embodiment of his own miraculous -success in life was not unnatural, and can only inspire respect for the -memory of the older man, in whose simple humility, rooted in the -strongest and most legitimate pride, may, perhaps, be recognised some of -the essential qualities which endeared the great composer to all who -were privileged to call him friend. - -Brahms returned to Vienna in December, and was, of course, present at -several concerts given there before and after Christmas by Frau -Schumann, who visited Austria after an interval of some years. - -The list of publications belonging to this year is an important one, -not only because it includes the German Requiem (Rieter-Biedermann), but -because it is representative of the master in what may be roughly called -the second period of his activity as a composer of songs. From beginning -to end of his career he poured forth songs in many different forms--the -simple strophic, the 'durchcomponirtes' Lied, the latter necessarily -varying in structure with each fresh example.[31] This second period, -however, is marked not only by the sure mastery which had long -characterized Brahms' works in whatever domain he chose for the exercise -of his powers; its spirit is generally distinctive, and is that of the -poet's ripe manhood. Youth with its uncertainties is behind, age with -its gathering shadows not yet in sight; the composer holds the present -in firm grasp, and presents us with exquisite dream-pictures of life and -nature, the children of an imagination penetrated with a sense of the -beauty, the tenderness, the pathos of existence, and content in the -exercise of its ideality. Each of the five books published in 1868 (Op. -43 by Rieter-Biedermann, and Op. 46, 47, 48, 49 by Simrock) contains -such wealth of beauty that it is difficult to select either for -particular mention. Perhaps the palm should be given to Op. 43, of which -'Von ewiger Liebe' and 'Mainacht' are Nos. 1 and 2; but then, Op. 47 -contains 'Botschaft,' and Op. 46 'Die Schale der Vergessenheit.' -Stockhausen, who stayed at Neuenahr in the summer of 1868, came over to -Bonn one day, and sang the greater number of these songs from the -manuscript, accompanied by the composer, to Deiters. Brahms seemed -determined not to publish 'Die Schale der Vergessenheit,' declaring it -to be too 'desolate,' but Stockhausen's enthusiasm prevailed to alter -his decision. Some of the shorter numbers belong, by date of -composition, to an earlier period, as Goethe's 'Die Liebende schreibt,' -the manuscript of which, in the possession of Frau Professor Böie, bears -the inscription 'Frl. Marie Völckers in kind remembrance' and the date -1863. The widely popular 'Wiegenlied,' Op. 49, No. 4, was composed for -one of Frau Faber's children, and the accompaniment is reminiscent of a -folk-song which Brahms heard from Fräulein Bertha Porubszky in the old -days of the Hamburg Ladies' Choir. The manuscript bears the inscription -'For Arthur and Bertha Faber for ever happy use. July 1868'; and at the -close 'Mit Grazie in infinitum,' and is in the possession of these old -friends of the composer. - -Now, as ever, Brahms returned with delight to the fresh naïveté of the -folk-song, and numerous examples of his settings of texts obtained from -German, Bohemian, Italian sources are to be found in these books, of -which 'Sonntag,' Op. 47, No. 3, and 'Am Sonntag Morgen,' Op. 49, No. 1, -are perhaps the best known. 'Gold überwiegt die Liebe' is a touching -little lament (No. 4 of Op. 48). The text of 'Von ewiger Liebe' is -itself a Wendic folk-song, but the composer's treatment has placed it -amongst the finest works of German art in song-form. As a rule, however, -Brahms set folk-songs as such, and his treatment of them was direct, -and, so to say, unstudied. He has set for a single voice popular texts -of more than twenty nationalities besides his own, and, as he found -them, as they appealed to him, so he composed them, without attempt -either to interfere with the frank naturalness of the words, or to give -national colour to his music. Such musical references as he occasionally -makes in his songs to the origin of his texts are so unobtrusive as to -be hardly noticeable, excepting by a special student of the subject.[32] -'Vergangen ist mir,' Op. 48, No. 6, points back to the tonal system of -the Middle Ages. Like 'Sehnsucht,' Op. 14, No. 8, it is composed in the -Dorian mode. - -The enumeration of the great song publications of 1868 is not yet at an -end. The issue by Rieter-Biedermann of Books 3, 4, 5, containing in all -nine numbers, of the 'Magelone Romances,' of which the first two books -had appeared in 1865, completed a song-cycle which ranks among the few -supreme achievements of its class, increasing to the number of four a -special group of names which had hitherto included those only of -Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann. - -The fifteen 'Magelone Romances' are extremely various in structure, and -can hardly be classified categorically under any of the ordinary -song-forms. Spitta expresses his sense of their importance by the word -'symphonic.' Brahms' own name 'Romance' sufficiently indicates their -nature, however. Some are of great, others of smaller, dimensions. Some -consist of several movements, others of one short movement in three -sections, of which the last repeats the first; one is bound into a whole -by the melody of a refrain. They give vivid expression to a wide range -of feelings: chivalric delight, progressive phases of passionate love, -the despair of separation, reawakened hope, the confident bliss of -reunion, certainty of the sacred power of love. Remembrance of the ideal -performances of Stockhausen, to whom the cycle is dedicated, was -indubitably present to Brahms' mind as he composed the songs, which, -with the exception of Nos. 11 and 13, should be sung by a man. One may -read and reread them, hear them and hear them again, but try in vain to -decide on a favourite number. Each one places the listener in an -enchanted world of noble beauty and romance, and in wealth and -individuality of idea the cycle assuredly does not rank last amongst the -few works of its kind. - -The Songs and Romances Op. 44 mentioned in our first volume in -connection with the Ladies' Choir were now also published by -Rieter-Biedermann;[33] and Cranz of Hamburg issued the three Songs for -six-part Chorus _a capella_, Op. 42, all of great charm. Its five-bar -rhythm is an interesting feature of the second number, the lovely -'Vineta.' The text of No. 3, 'Darthula's Grabesgesang,' is a -translation from Ossian, and is contained in Herder's 'Stimmen der -Völker.' - - 'Brahms is here,' writes Billroth from Vienna on January 11, 'and - is to give concerts with Stockhausen. He is going to bring out a - cantata, Rinaldo, in February.... He is enthusiastic about the text - because it leaves so much to the composer.' - -Goethe wrote his cantata expressly that music might be set to it by -Capellmeister Winter, a respectable musician of his day, for the Prince -Friedrich of Gotha, the possessor of an agreeable tenor voice, and a -good amateur vocalist. It is founded on an episode in Tasso's 'Jerusalem -Delivered,' and exhibits the conflict between weakness and strength in -the brave knight Rinaldo--a fictitious personage introduced into his -poem by Tasso--who is roused from his surrender to the witcheries of -Armida by the arrival, at the islet on which he is living with her, of a -party of knights, his friends--two only in Tasso's epic, but increased -to a chorus by Goethe. The cantata opens at a point where the knights -have succeeded in awakening Rinaldo from his dream of happiness, but are -unable to nerve him to the resolution of departure. As a final resource, -they hold up before him a diamond shield, which reflects his own image -in its degeneracy. The shock of what he sees restores him to full -consciousness, and he leaves the island in spite of Armida's -lamentations, fury, and enchantments, and his own regrets, encouraged -and supported by his friends. The final chorus with solo depicts the -happy return voyage, and the safe arrival of the ship at the shore of -the Holy Land. - -Armida does not appear as a _dramatis persona_ in Goethe's work, and -Brahms' music is accordingly composed for tenor solo, men's chorus, and -orchestra. The poem is short and concise, containing but one dramatic -situation, but its very terseness has been advantageous to the composer, -for the text has not fettered his imagination by detail, whilst it has -supplied him with sufficient material for powerful and contrasted -musical presentation in the enchantments of Armida, the storm raised by -her to prevent the ship's departure, the calm, persuasive firmness of -the knights, the vacillation of Rinaldo (expressed in the first instance -in an impassioned scena), his pleadings with his friends, his final -awakening and recovery from the intensity of passion. Of all these -points Brahms has availed himself with force and warmth of imagination. -Many interesting details of the composition tempt our notice, but we may -only stay to direct the reader's attention to the conviction inspired by -the choruses of the noble, lovable character of the knights; to the -masterly means employed--so simple that only a master would have -ventured to restrict himself to them--at the moment when the shield is -displayed, which, in their place, convey, without any attempt at -tone-painting, but with absolute distinctness, the impression of the -friends' gentle determination with the shrinking Rinaldo; to the bright -martial movement in which the knights encourage him by reminding him of -the flashing lances, the waving pennons, the whole brilliant battle -array, of the crusaders' army from which the allurements of Armida have -too long detained him. In the final chorus a favourable wind swells the -sails of the ship, which rides joyously over the green waves, breaking -them into light foam as she passes, whilst Rinaldo and his companions -amuse themselves by watching the dolphins at play in the water, and are -filled with a light-hearted happiness that, as land is sighted, bursts -into exultant shouting of the names of Godfrey and Solyma (Jerusalem). - -The work was performed for the first time from the manuscript, under the -composer's direction, on February 28, 1869, at a concert of the -Akademischer Gesangverein, Vienna. The title-part was sung with great -success by Gustav Walter, three hundred students well prepared by Dr. -Eyrich, the society's conductor, were responsible for the choruses, and -the orchestral accompaniments were performed by the entire body of -instrumentalists of the court opera. - -A series of three concerts, given in Vienna in February and March by -Brahms and Stockhausen were phenomenally successful. The great baritone -had not been heard in the Austrian capital for many years, and all -tickets for the first concert were sold immediately after its -announcement. Brahms' selection for the series included works by Handel, -Bach, Couperin, Gluck, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, some of his own -Variations--notably those of the B flat Sextet--and Hungarian Dances; -and he accompanied his friend in many of the most celebrated songs of -his répertoire. The wonderful performance by the two artists of Brahms' -songs 'Von ewiger Liebe' and 'Mainacht' was one of the choice delights -of the first concert. A feature of the second was the performance by -Stockhausen and Fräulein Girzik of two of the composer's vocal duets. -The enthusiasm excited by the concert-givers in Vienna was equalled in -Budapest, whither they proceeded on March 10, in order to give a similar -series; and it was, if possible, exceeded on their final reappearance in -Vienna. - -These concerts are of peculiar interest in Brahms' career, because the -last of them closes the period of his activity as a virtuoso. For -fourteen years, from the autumn of 1855 to the spring of 1869, -circumstances had obliged, and happily permitted, him to earn his -livelihood chiefly by the exercise of his powers as an executive artist; -but his reputation as a composer had grown uninterruptedly throughout -this time, and with the production of the German Requiem it attained a -height that gave him future independence of action. Though years were -still to pass before his circumstances became easy, they were not again -straitened, and from henceforth he undertook concert-journeys only in -the rôle of a composer, to assist at performances of his own works. The -occasions on which he appeared additionally as pianist with one of -Beethoven's or Schumann's great compositions became less and less -frequent, moreover, as, with passing time, he felt increasingly out of -regular practice. Brahms was, in later life, fond of illustrating the -fact of his long struggle with poverty by referring to the manuscript of -the Requiem. 'The paper is of all sizes and shapes, because at the time -I wrote it I never had money enough to buy a stock.' The immediate -impression created by the great work was, however, sufficiently -widespread and profound to place the composer alone, among the -musicians of his day, as the accepted representative of the classical -art of Germany, and the prices commanded by his copyrights gradually -increased accordingly. No long time elapsed before the German Requiem -had made the round of the musical cities of Europe. It was given, for -the first time after final completion and publication, at the Leipzig -Gewandhaus concert of February 18, 1869, under Reinecke, and was -performed in the course of the next few weeks in Basle (twice), -Carlsruhe (twice), Münster, Cologne, Hamburg, Zürich, and Weimar, and, -later in the year, in Dessau (twice), Chemnitz (twice), Barmen (four -choruses only), Magdeburg, Jena, and again twice in Cologne. The -complete work was not heard in Vienna until March 5, 1871, when it was -given by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde under the composer's -direction, with Frau Wilt and Dr. Krauss as soloists, but achieved no -striking success. It was performed on July 7 of the same year (1871) for -the first time in England, before an invited audience, at the residence -of Sir Henry Thompson. Stockhausen conducted the rehearsals and -performance, and sang the baritone solo, Fräulein Anna Regan the soprano -solo. The chorus was composed of about thirty good musicians, and the -accompaniments were played in their arrangement as a pianoforte duet by -Lady Thompson and the veteran musician Cipriani Potter, then in his -eightieth year. The first public performance in England which the author -has been able to authenticate with precision is that of the Philharmonic -Society in St. James's Hall on April 2, 1873, under the direction of W. -G. Cusins, when the soloists were Mlle. Sophie Ferrari and Santley. The -work was performed for the first time in Berlin, Munich and St. -Petersburg in the spring, and in Utrecht in June, of the year 1872, and -in Paris in 1874.[34] - -Probably it was due to the impression created by the German Requiem that -the Serenade in D, Op. 11, was performed for the first time in Berlin in -November, 1869, at one of the concerts of the Symphony Orchestra under -Capellmeister Stern. - - 'The reception showed that the public is beginning to understand - and value the composer Brahms, one of the few living creative - artists who are genuine and sincere,' wrote a Berlin critic. - -In the earlier part of the same year Louis Brassin played the Handel -Variations and Fugue in Munich with very great success. Brassin was one -of the first artists to perform the work in public, and that he -introduced it to a Munich audience is the more interesting since the -musicians of the Bavarian capital had in 1869 shown scant, if any, -recognition of our composer's art, which was too progressive for Franz -Lachner, and too conservative for von Bülow, the successive leaders, up -to that date, of the musical life of the city. The work was played by -Bülow in November, 1872, in Carlsruhe, and from that time was heard at -his concerts with increasing frequency. - -[22] Dietrich. - -[23] A pedal point is a sound sustained, according to conditions -prescribed by the rules of art, during a succession of varying harmonies -of which it need not form an essential part. - -[24] Matt. v. 4; Ps. cxxvi. 5, 6; 1 Pet. i. 24; James v. 7; 1 Pet. i. -25; Isa. xxxv. 10; Ps. xxxix. 4-7; Wisd. iii. 1; Ps. lxxxiv. 1, 2, 4; -John xvi. 22; Ecclus. li. 27; Isa. lxvi. 13; Heb. xiii. 14; 1 Cor. xv -51-55; Rev. iv. 11; Rev. xiv. 13. - -[25] The cadences of music are somewhat analogous to the punctuation of -literature. A 'final cadence' has the effect of closing a musical -period. - -[26] Dated April 4 in Dietrich's 'Recollections.' - -[27] Schumann. - -[28] Communicated in a letter to the author by Dr. Deiters. - -[29] See Vol. I., p. 207. - -[30] _Cf._ Dietrich, p. 54 _et seq_. The dates in the text are given on -the authority of Frau Schumann's diary. - -[31] The strict strophic form is that in which voice-melody and -accompaniment are the same in each verse. It admits, however, of several -kinds of modification, as by varied accompaniment, slight variation of -voice-melody, and so forth. The 'durchcomponirtes' Lied, for which there -is no technical English term, is that of which the text is set -throughout to fresh musical thoughts and developments. - -[32] Those who wish to study Brahms' treatment of folk-music in detail -are referred to Hohenemser's articles, 'Brahms und die Volksmusik,' in -_Die Musik_, Nos. 15 and 18, 1903. - -[33] Dated 1866 in the Thematic Catalogue. - -[34] Sir C. Villiers Stanford remembers being present at a public -performance of the German Requiem in London earlier than that of the -Philharmonic Society. This was at a students' concert of the Royal -Academy of Music under John Hullah, the then conductor of the orchestra, -the date of which, however, the author has not succeeded in -ascertaining. - - - - - CHAPTER XV - 1869-1872 - - Brahms and Opera--Professor Heinrich Bulthaupt--The - Liebeslieder--First performance--The Rhapsody (Goethe's - 'Harzreise') performed privately at Carlsruhe--First public - performance at Jena--Geheimrath Gille--The 'Song of - Triumph'--Performance of first chorus at Bremen--Bernhard - Scholz--The 'Song of Destiny'--First performance--Death of Johann - Jakob Brahms--First performance of completed 'Triumphlied' at - Carlsruhe--Summary of Brahms' work as a composer since 1862. - - -The theory that found wide acceptance during the lifetime of Brahms, and -was discussed at length in a feuilleton of the _Strassburger Post_ -immediately after his death, that he never had and never could have -seriously entertained the idea of composing for the stage, was long ago -conclusively refuted by Widmann in his 'Recollections.' He shows that -the master's wishes pointed at more than one period of his career in the -direction of dramatic composition, and that he was prevented from -following them by the same difficulty which proved insoluble to -Mendelssohn--that of finding a libretto to suit his fancy. - - 'He was always particularly animated when speaking of matters - connected with the theatre, as for instance when he once very - decidedly demonstrated to me the vaudeville character of the first - act of "Fidelio," which generally passes for a very good text-book. - He possessed a genuine dramatic perception, and it gave him real - pleasure to analyze the merits and defects of a dramatic - subject.'[35] - -The interest of this passage is enhanced by a few words that occur in an -article on Brahms by Richard Heuberger:[36] - - 'We sat together the whole evening and I remember that Brahms spoke - in detail of Mozart's "Figaro" and laid stress on the unparalleled - manner in which Mozart has overcome the enormous difficulties of - his text; "Mozart has composed it, not as a mere ordinary - text-book, but as a complete, well-organized comedy."' - -It would certainly have been matter for surprise if Brahms, who was -peculiarly sensitive to the influence of really poetic dramatic effect, -and whose interest in the drama furnished him with a source of frequent -pleasure that did not diminish as he grew older--he rarely missed a -première at the Vienna Burg Theater--had passed through life without -feeling the inclination to test his powers as a composer for the stage, -and this is very far indeed from being the case. Widmann's account of -what took place between himself and Brahms on the subject of opera -belongs to the late seventies, and we shall revert to it in its place; -it points back, however, to an earlier time, which proves, as we might -expect, to be that of the composer's intimacy with Devrient and Levi, -with whose varied professional activity he manifested the warmest -sympathy, and especially to the year 1869, when the publication of the -German Requiem had left his mind at leisure for new important effort. -Perhaps we may perceive the direction in which his wishes were moving in -the fact that 'Rinaldo,' which contains the nearest approach to dramatic -composition to be found in the catalogue of Brahms' works, was completed -almost simultaneously with the Requiem; and it is possible that an -indication of the obstacle that was to prove insuperable to their -fulfilment may be read in Billroth's words quoted in the last chapter: -'Brahms is enthusiastic about [the text of] Rinaldo because it leaves so -much to the composer.' However this may be, it is certain that he was -strongly possessed at this period and on into the early seventies with -the desire to compose an opera, and that he not only opened his mind -unreservedly on the subject to his friends at Carlsruhe, but made -repeated efforts in other directions to procure a libretto adapted to -his views. Allgeyer furnished him with a completed text-book on -Calderon's 'The Open Secret.' Through Claus Groth he obtained an unused -text written for Mendelssohn by the poet Geibel, founded on the episode -of Nausikaa in the 'Odyssey,'[37] and amongst others with whom he -discussed the subject were Tourgenieff at Baden-Baden, who provided him -with sketches, and, Heinrich Bulthaupt, then a rising young dramatic -author and an intimate friend of Reinthaler's. - -To Bulthaupt he proposed as a subject Schiller's fragment of a play -'Demetrius,' which he esteemed very highly, and, in a long conversation -with this gentleman at his house in Bremen, he explained with precision -his ideas as to the desirable treatment even of the minutiæ of dramatic -action, taking as the theme of his exposition the libretto, written by -Bulthaupt, of Reinthaler's opera 'Kätchen von Heilbronn.' Some of the -peculiarities of his views which created for him unnecessary -difficulties must be attributed to his inveterately logical habit of -mind, which made it repugnant to him to take certain things for granted -for the sake of stage exigencies. He went too far in a desire that the -minor details of the drama should be visibly developed. Pointing to a -scene in 'Kätchen von Heilbronn,' in the course of which three soldiers -go into a drinking cellar, not to reappear, he inquired: 'What becomes -of them?' 'It is assumed that they go away,' replied Bulthaupt; 'do you -mean to say that you wish actually to see them come out again on to the -stage?' 'I should like to do so,' Brahms answered. A moment's reflection -would, of course, have shown him that the scene in question was, in -fact, realistic, since the soldiers might in actual life have left the -cellar by a back-door, unseen by those who observed them enter through -the front one. The anecdote is, however, illustrative of a mental habit -which must have confronted Brahms with countless difficulties so long as -he merely contemplated the composition of an opera. The work of -composing one, had he ever settled down to it, might probably have -solved many of them. - -The idea of 'Demetrius' fell through. Bulthaupt suggested to Brahms a -consideration which, in no way applicable to Schiller's piece, seemed to -him of importance in view of its adaptation as an opera. He thought that -the necessity of introducing some amount of Russian colouring into the -music of a drama having for its subject an episode of Russian history, -not only might prove irksome to a composer so strongly imbued as Brahms -with the sentiment of German nationality, but would be prejudicial to -the tragic breadth of Schiller's play as it stands. Brahms, on thinking -over the matter, probably felt the weight of his friend's remarks, for -he did not return to his proposal. - -Points of interest in the composer's suggestion of Schiller's -'Demetrius' for the subject of a tragic opera are that ambition and not -love is the mainspring of its action, and that the feminine interest of -the piece is centred neither in maiden nor wife, but in Marfa, the -mother of Demetrius, in whom are exhibited powerful emotions arising -from unerring maternal instinct and baffled affection. It recalls the -period, moreover, when Brahms and Joachim shared each other's daily -thoughts on all subjects. Joachim composed an overture to Hermann -Grimm's play of 'Demetrius' in 1854, and, about the middle of the -seventies, the well-known 'Marfa' scena for contralto and orchestra from -Schiller's fragment. A similar association is presented in Brahms' -favourite suggestion for the text-book of a serio-comic opera or -operetta, of Gozzi's 'König Hirsch,' the work with which Joachim's -'Overture to a Play of Gozzi's' is to be connected. Arrangements by -Brahms of both these compositions of his friend, as pianoforte duets, -were found in his rooms after his death, and were published with the -very few manuscripts that he allowed to survive him. - -Brahms travelled to Carlsruhe in March in order to conduct the -repetition performance of the German Requiem, but except for this -journey spent the early part of the year 1869 quietly in Vienna. The -advance of spring induced him to pay some visits in the north, after -which he proceeded to Lichtenthal. The event of the season in Frau -Schumann's private circle was the marriage of her third daughter Julie -to the Conte Radicati di Marmorito. The legend of an attachment between -Brahms and this lady has obtained sufficiently wide credence to demand -mention in our pages. It is, perhaps, not unnatural that the composer's -dedication to Fräulein Julie Schumann of his Variations for two -pianofortes on her father's theme, published in 1863, should have led a -few enthusiasts to draw their own romantic conclusions, and that such -conclusions should have spread; the less so since Fräulein Julie was -possessed of a graceful charm that made her interesting to all who were -brought into near contact with her. Brahms was not an exception from -others in his power of appreciating her attraction, but his admiration -of his old friend's daughter at no time advanced into special intimacy. -'I have spent the summer at Baden, and am going to remain for Julie -Schumann's wedding,' he writes to Dietrich. Brahms, Levi, and Allgeyer -together presented the bride with an _objet d'art_, a bronze plate, and -are represented contemplating it in a group in a photograph of the time. -The Contessa Radicati di Marmorito was taken by death from her husband -and children after a few years of happiness. - -The completed musical fruits of Brahms' year were the Liebeslieder -Walzer and the Rhapsody for contralto solo, men's chorus and orchestra. -The 'Liebeslieder,' waltzes for pianoforte duet and _ad libitum_ vocal -quartet, composed to a number of verses from Daumer's 'Polydora,' -translations or imitations of Russian and Polish folk-songs, are amongst -the most popular of the composer's works, and are too familiar to need -detailed comment. They show Brahms in his perfection of dainty grace and -fresh, playful imagination, a mood in which he stands unrivalled. They -were performed for the first time in public at the subscription concert -of the Carlsruhe court orchestra of October 6. Frau Schumann, who played -Beethoven's G major Concerto on the same occasion, and Levi, were the -pianists, and Fräulein Hausmann, Frau Hauser, Herr Kürner, and Herr -Brouillet, the singers. Published shortly afterwards by Simrock, they -were heard in Vienna before the close of the year at the first -Singakademie concert of the season; and were performed at Frau -Schumann's concert in Vienna of January 5, 1870, by the concert-giver -and composer and the singers Frau Dustmann, Fräulein Girzik, Herr Gustav -Walter, and Dr. Krauss. - -The Rhapsody was first heard privately at the rehearsal of the Carlsruhe -concert of October 6, Levi having arranged a performance for the benefit -of Frau Schumann and of Brahms himself. The solo was sung by Frau Boni. -The composer, writing to Deiters in September, says: - - '... I should like to make a request to-day. I remember to have - seen at your house a volume of songs by Reichhardt (possibly - Zelter) which contained a stanza from Goethe's Harzreise. Could you - lend me the volume for a little while? - - 'I need hardly add that I have just composed it and should like to - see the work of my forerunner. I call my piece "Rhapsody," but - believe I am indebted also for the title to my respected - predecessor. - - 'I shall hear it in a few days, and should I then decide not to - print or perform the somewhat intimate music, I shall nevertheless - show it to you.'[38] - -It seems probable, from the circumstances of the first public -performance of the Rhapsody, that Madame Viardot-Garcia was amongst the -small audience on this private occasion. The work was given on March 3, -1870, soon after its publication, at the Academic Concerts, Jena, under -the direction of the society's conductor, Dr. Ernst Naumann, when Madame -Viardot sang the solo; 'Rinaldo,' with Dr. Wiedemann as tenor, being -included in the programme. - -Madame Viardot-Garcia, staying early in 1870 with Liszt, who had -returned to Weimar in 1869 after an absence of many years, met at his -house his devoted friend Geheimrath Gille, a distinguished musical -amateur, who occupied an official post at Jena and employed the greater -part of his leisure in the interest of the musical culture of the little -university town. Gille had in his youth known Goethe and Hummel, and -been on terms of close friendship with Henselt. His intimacy with Liszt -dated from the commencement of the great man's residence in Weimar, and -he soon became a warm supporter of the New-German party, received Wagner -into his house at Jena on his flight from Dresden to Liszt at Weimar, -and saw him safely over the German border. His sympathy with the new -tendencies did not render him insensible to the value of less -revolutionary developments of art. He had great interest and respect to -spare for Brahms' music, and encouraged its cultivation by Brendel's -society (Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein), on the committee of which -he was very active.[39] There can be little doubt that the performance -of the Rhapsody at Jena in March was the outcome of a friendly chat -between Madame Viardot and himself and of their mutual sympathetic -admiration of Brahms' art, which was shared by Dr. Ernst Naumann, an old -personal acquaintance of the composer. Since the performance of the -German Requiem in 1869 already chronicled, up to the present day, -Brahms' music has been well represented in the programmes of the Jena -societies under Naumann's direction. - -The Rhapsody was given on March 19 under Grimm at Münster, and a little -later at Capellmeister Hegar's benefit concert at Zürich. It became a -favourite work with Frau Joachim, who sang the solo times innumerable -with extraordinary power and sympathy and invariable success. - -Brahms' Rhapsody, Op. 53, is composed to a fragment--set also by J. F. -Reichhardt (1752-1814)--from Goethe's 'Harzreise im Winter,' which has -for its subject the poet's reflections on a visit paid by him to a young -hypochondriac whose melancholy had, as he feared, been confirmed by the -influence of his own 'Werther's Sorrows.' Goethe's efforts to raise the -youth from his state of mental depression had no immediate visible -result, though he ultimately recovered from his malady, and the three -verses selected from the poem for musical composition conclude with a -prayer to the Father of love on his behalf. Such a text was eminently -suited for musical expression by a composer who, intensely realizing the -problems of life, shaped his course by faith in the power of love; and -the Rhapsody furnishes another striking illustration of the strength of -imagination which enabled Brahms so to absorb himself in his text as to -be able to present it in musical sound--to capable listeners--with a -strength and reality usually associated only with impressions of sight. -Let anyone who is familiar with the composition read through Goethe's -poem from beginning to end, and note the accession of force with which -the verses set to music by Brahms come home to him. He will be reminded -of an object illuminated by sunlight that stands near others placed in -shadow. - -The first of the three sections of the single movement that constitutes -the Rhapsody, an impressive orchestral picture upon which the -independent recitative of the solo voice enters, may be accepted as the -reflection of the poet's intense realization of the unhappy youth's -condition. Its tones convey a penetrating impression of rich warmth and -pity lying behind the deepest gloom. The feeling of the second section -is no less concentrated, though it is expressed with more calm: - - 'Ah! how comfort his sorrows - Who in balsam found poison? - Who from the fulness of love - Hath drunk but the hate of men? - Once despised, now a despiser, - Secretly he consumeth - All his own best worth - In fruitless self-seeking.' - -The noble declamatory passages of the voice are supported by an -accompaniment that becomes agitated or intensely still in accord with -the course of the poet's self-questionings, which reach their only -possible and beautiful resolution in the third section: - - 'If thy Psalt'ry containeth, - Father of love, one tone - That can reach his ear, - Oh, refresh his heart! - Open his obscurèd sight - To the thousand sources - Near to the thirsty one - In the desert.' - -Here, by a fine inspiration, the chorus of men's voices enters for the -first time _pianissimo_, supporting the solo voice in fervent -supplication. - -Words and music are fitly associated throughout the movement, which is a -treasure amongst works of art, and it is impossible to say that either -of its parts is superior to the others, though the divine outpouring of -love and pity in the last section often seems to appeal, especially, to -the hearer listening for the first time to the composition. This, -however, is really due to its position, which contains and brings to an -issue the effect of what precedes it. The work has long since been -generally recognised as one of the finest of Brahms' shorter -compositions, and continues to be more in demand every year, though it -had no great immediate success. - - 'I send you my Rhapsody,' Brahms wrote to Dietrich in February, - 1870, a week or two after its publication; 'the music-directors are - not exactly enthusiastic about the opus, but it may, perhaps, be a - satisfaction to you that I do not always go in frivolous 3/4 time!' - -It sprang from the composer's very soul. - - 'He once told me he loved it so,' says Dietrich, 'that he placed it - under his pillow at night in order to have it near him.' - -The Studies without opus number, Nos. 1 and 2, after Chopin and Weber, -were published in 1869 by Senff; and the first two books of Hungarian -Dances by Simrock, in the duet form for Pianoforte in which they -obtained enormous popularity. It was not until 1872 that they were -issued in the arrangement as solos, in which, as we know, they had -formed part of Brahms' répertoire during some years of his virtuoso -career.[40] Dunkl, a publisher of Budapest, used to relate in -after-years that Brahms, on the occasion of one of his early appearances -in that city, called on him and offered a selection of six of the Dances -for an absurdly small sum. Dunkl said he would give his answer after -hearing them in the evening. They had no success and the publisher -refused them, a proceeding which he afterwards found considerable reason -to regret. - -The stirring events of the year 1870, the series of triumphs won by -German arms, and the federation of the various independent States under -the headship of Prussia which was to lead to the extraordinary -development of German political power and industrial progress that has -been witnessed by the present generation, were followed by our composer -with a mixture of ardent emotions, in which that of swelling patriotic -pride gained the predominance as each day brought news of fresh -victories won by the soldiers of the Fatherland. His vehement exultation -at the results of the war found embodiment in a great 'Song of Triumph' -for chorus and orchestra, with which he was occupied in 1871, and the -first chorus, completed early in the year, and sent at once to -Reinthaler, was performed from the manuscript in Bremen Cathedral on -Good Friday, April 7, under the composer's direction, at a concert given -by the Singakademie in memory of those who had fallen in the war.[41] -There is no need to dilate on the feelings which dominated Brahms during -the writing of this extraordinary work. They blaze out of it with an -intensity and an endurance of passion that well fit it to occupy its own -peculiar place amongst the great events that startled Europe at the -opening of the seventies. It commemorates heroic deeds in truly heroic -strains. By his choice of a text the composer at once raised the scope -of his work to a level above that of an ordinary _Te Deum_ for victory -in war; and the words selected by him from Revelation xix., which admit, -throughout each portion of the composition, of an application to the -overpowering occurrences of the time, were precisely those for whose -setting he alone of modern composers--we may even say of all composers -who have succeeded the two giants of the eighteenth century--was, by his -temperament, genius, and attainments, pre-eminently fitted. - -The Triumphlied consists of three great movements for double chorus and -orchestra, the third of which contains a few passages for baritone solo. - -'_Alleluia; salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our -God: For true and righteous are his judgments._' - -The solemnly jubilant orchestral prelude, the entry of the full double -chorus with loud and sustained Alleluias, lead to the principal theme of -the first movement, already suggested in the prelude, and -derived--though this is hardly appreciable by the unpractised ear of a -general audience--from the Prussian national air, which is identical -with England's 'God save the King.' This theme or some portion of it -almost invariably accompanies the phrase, '_Salvation, honour_, etc., -_unto the Lord_,' which, with its surrounding Alleluias, forms the text -of the first portion of the movement, constructed entirely from diatonic -harmonies. The words '_For righteous and true are his judgments_' are -set to the broad themes of the middle portion, to which some heightened -effect is imparted by very sparing use of the more familiar chromatic -chords. The third section is a varied repetition of the first with a -coda. The movement is sustained at the white heat of jubilation until -the beginning of the close, when a few tranquil bars, in the course of -which the voices die away to rest, and the instruments are subdued to a -_pianissimo_ that becomes ever softer, prepare for the glorious outburst -with which the chorus terminates. The second movement has three varying -sections: - -'_Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, great and -small._ - -'_Alleluia, for the Almighty God hath entered into his kingdom._ - -'_Let us be glad and rejoice and give honour to him._' - -The first section opens with pure melodious beauty and lofty serenity, -and displays in its course numerous points of imitation, direct and by -inversion, which are easily discoverable by the student. It is succeeded -by a blast of trumpets, an outburst of Alleluias, and the announcement -of the Lord's reign by the voices of the two choirs which enter -successively on a sounding tonic pedal; the basses imitating the basses, -then the tenors the tenors, and so on, at half a bar's distance. This -proclamation section is appropriately concise and of superb grandeur. We -hear in it 'as it were the voice of a multitude, and as the voice of -many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings'; whilst the third -section, partly woven, by various kinds of imitation, from the phrases -of 'Nun danket Alle Gott,' which is sounded prominently by the flutes -and trumpets, is animated by a singularly naïve spirit of light-hearted -happiness and rejoicing. - -'_And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse: and he that sat -upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth -judge and make war._ - -'_And he treadeth, the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty -God._ - -'_And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name called a King of -Kings and a Lord of Lords. Alleluia. Amen._' - -Subdued awe; firm, proud confidence in a mighty, beneficent ruler; a -flash of fierce remembrance of injury--all are rendered with a power, a -vividness, a picturesque strength, that are not transcended, even if -they are equalled, by anything ever composed in the domain of choral -music for the church or the concert-room; and the greatness and glory of -'a King of Kings and a Lord of Lords' are celebrated in the long final -portion of this gorgeous third movement with dazzling brilliancy of -effect, sustained and augmented up to the very end. - -The first chorus, performed before the audience of two thousand people -assembled in Bremen Cathedral on the evening of Good Friday, 1871, -reached its effect to a very considerable extent. - - 'It has a broad and, as it were, popular character, is conceived - simply and wrought with sincerity,' writes the correspondent of the - _Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung_.' - -The _Bremen Courier_ says: - - 'One again recognises the titanic capacity of the composer. The - work is a vocal joy-symphony, of imposing power and exalted - feeling. Praise is due to all concerned in the performance for they - have facilitated the understanding of the composer to a large - portion of the audience.' - -The Dietrichs came from Oldenburg to hear the new work. Circumstances -prevented the attendance of Frau Schumann and Joachim. Neither artist -had returned from what had at this period become an annual visit of each -to England, which, in Frau Schumann's case, generally extended over at -least two months, and in Joachim's occupied the six weeks of Lent. - -Pending Frau Schumann's return, Brahms remained among his friends in the -north, and played his D minor Concerto at the Bremen orchestral -subscription concert of April 25 with great success, giving pieces by -Bach, Scarlatti, and Schumann in the second part. Frau Schumann was back -in Lichtenthal early in May, and Brahms settled into his usual lodgings -there a few days before her arrival. The present writer had the -happiness of immediately following her, and the reader interested to -learn particulars of the summer life of quiet work and simple pleasures -that followed is referred to the Recollections placed at the beginning -of our first volume. The details there given are too slight and too -personal to be appropriate in the body of the present narrative, though -they may be found to have a value of their own for those interested in -whatever throws additional light on the true, lovable nature of Brahms. - -It was about this time that our composer's art began to make perceptible -progress in London. No immediate result was perceptible from the -performance of the B flat Sextet led by Joachim at a Monday Popular -concert of 1867, but from the beginning of the seventies we find Brahms' -name appearing with some regularity in London programmes. No opportunity -was lost by Frau Schumann, Joachim, or Stockhausen for making propaganda -for their friend's music in private artistic circles. The performance of -the Requiem at Sir Henry Thompson's house in the summer of 1871, under -Stockhausen, has already been noted. Of minor incidents of the time in -this connection, the singing of two duets from Op. 28 by Madame -Viardot-Garcia and Stockhausen at a party given by the lady in London on -June 10 may be selected for mention.[42] - -In the same year the call of Bernhard Scholz to Breslau added another to -the list of towns, now to increase rapidly, year by year, in which -Brahms' art came to be cultivated with particular vigour. Scholz, who -had held successive appointments in Hanover and Berlin, had been on -terms of familiar acquaintance with the composer from an early period of -both their careers. He now found himself in a position, as conductor of -the Breslau orchestral subscription concerts, freely to gratify his -admiration of the master's art. From this time not only were Brahms' new -orchestral works given, with few exceptions as they appeared, at the -Breslau subscription concerts, but any existing deficiencies in the -Brahms education of the musical public were supplied by performances of -the two Serenades and the Pianoforte Concerto. The composer himself -played the last-named work at Breslau in 1874 and 1876, when the -orchestra was of course conducted by Scholz. No less attention was -devoted to the chamber music. At the concerts of the resident string -quartet-party arranged by Concertmeister Richard Himmelstoss, at which -Scholz or Julius Buths often assisted as pianist, the two Sextets, the -Quartets and Quintet, and later works in their turn, were frequently -heard, and to the successful results of these efforts, to the warm -response they elicited from the musical circles of Breslau, we owe the -composition of a genial and now favourite work of our master, the -Academic Festival Overture, the appearance of which will be noted in its -place. - -Amongst the friends who visited Lichtenthal during the summer of 1871 -were Allgeyer, Levi, and Stockhausen, and on September 8 the 'Song of -Destiny,' completed in May, was rehearsed at Carlsruhe. - -'Hyperion's Schicksalslied,' by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1834), sets -forth the serene, passionless, unchanging existence of the celestials, -surrounded by the clear light of eternity; and its contrast, the -ever-shifting, suffering life of humanity, wrapped in the darkness of -inscrutable mystery. The poem is entirely fatalistic, containing no -comment on what it depicts. - - 'Ye wander above in light - On tender soil, blessed immortals! - Glistening divine breezes - Touch you gently, - As the fingers of the artist - Sacred strings. - - 'Calm as the sleeping child - Breathe the celestials; - Chastely guarded - In modest bud, - Their spirits bloom eternally, - And their blissful eyes - Gaze in quiet, eternal stillness. - - 'But to us it is given - On no spot to rest; - Suffering men - Vanish, blindly fall - From hour to hour, - As water thrown - From rock to rock, - Year-long down into uncertainty.' - -In Brahms' setting we have yet another fine choral work, characteristic -from every point of view, musical, æsthetic, and psychological--one, -moreover, which is of quite peculiar interest and value, since it -contains an express confession of that creed of love to which the -present writer has several times referred as being traceable throughout -the composer's life and works. The contrasted pictures of celestial and -human existence are set with the vivid force which we have noticed in -our brief studies of preceding works, the pathos and tragedy surrounding -the lot of mankind being treated with the deep, passionate feeling which -is invariably displayed by the composer when he is occupied with this or -kindred subjects. Brahms' 'Song of Destiny' does not, however, terminate -with Hölderlin's, nor could it have done so. Another passion lived -stronger within him than that with which he contemplated the phenomena -of human suffering, uncertainty, and death; and he has known how to -supplement his text with a short, but most exquisitely conceived, -orchestral postlude, which, whilst it rounds the work musically into a -whole, brings to the despairing soul a message of consolation, hope, -faith, courage, such as it is within the peculiar province of music to -convey, and which has the more power over the heart since it cannot be -translated into articulate words. - -That Brahms actually had some such intention in adding the postlude is -in the personal knowledge of the present writer. He regarded it as not -merely accessory, but as being, in a sense, the most important part of -his composition. In rehearsing the work, it was over this portion that -he lingered with peculiar care; and when conducting its performance he -obtained from the postlude some of his rarest and most exquisite effects -of ethereal tenderness. - -The work was performed for the first time from the manuscript on October -18, 1871, under the composer's direction, at a concert of the Carlsruhe -Philharmonic Society. The overture and garden-scene from Schumann's -'Faust' headed, and the conclusion of the second part--both under Levi's -direction--closed the programme, which further included two of -Schubert's songs. Fräulein Johanna Schwarz and Stockhausen were the -soloists of the occasion. - -The impression made by the new work upon the audience of Carlsruhe was -profound, and the composer returned to Vienna gratified and pleased by -an immediate success which the experiences of his career had by no means -led him to regard as a foregone conclusion. - -The Schicksalslied was published by Simrock in December, and was -performed early in 1872 in Bremen, Breslau, Frankfurt, and Vienna. - -The only other original publications of 1871, the two books of Songs, -Op. 57 and 58, were issued by Rieter-Biedermann.[43] All the texts of -Op. 57 are original poems or imitations (Nos. 2, 3, 7) by G. F. Daumer, -whose texts are amongst the most passionate of those set by Brahms. The -composer seems to have imagined a portrait of the poet more or less in -correspondence with his verses, and Claus Groth tells an amusing story -of the shock sustained by Brahms on taking the opportunity of a visit to -Munich to call on Daumer. - - 'I loaded myself with all the books of my songs that contain - something of his. I found him at last, in an out-of-the-way house, - in an out-of-the-way street, and was shown to equally retired - apartments. There in a quiet room I found my poet. Ah, he was a - little dried-up old man! After my sincerely respectful address, on - presenting my music, the old gentleman replied with an embarrassed - word of thanks and I soon perceived that he knew nothing either of - me or my compositions, or anything at all of music. And when I - pointed to his ardent, passionate verses, he signed me, with a - tender wave of the hand, to a little old mother almost more - withered than himself, saying, "Ah, I have only loved the one, my - wife!"' - -The opening of the year 1872 marks the beginning of a new period, not in -the artistic, but in the private life of Brahms. It found him installed -in the historic rooms in the third story of No. 4, Carlsgasse, Vienna, -which were to remain to the end of his life the nearest approach to an -establishment of his own to which he committed himself. He had lodged in -Novaragasse, Singerstrasse, Poststrasse 6, Wohlzeile 23, Ungargasse 2, -had stayed with his friends the Fabers--had, in fact, since his first -visit to Vienna, changed his residence at least with each new season. -When he took possession of his rooms in Carlsgasse 4 on December 27, -1871, he had moved for the last time. Here he lived for a little more -than a quarter of a century, here he died. He continued as he began, a -lodger in furnished apartments, renting his Carlsgasse rooms in the -first instance from a Frau Vogel, who, with her husband and family, -occupied the rest of the dwelling. Brahms' accommodation consisted of -three small rooms communicating one with the other. The middle and -largest contained his grand piano and writing-table, a small -square-shaped instrument to which a tradition was attached, and a table -and chairs arranged, German fashion, in front of a sofa. Here he -received his visitors. In a smaller room were his bookshelves and a high -desk for standing to write. There were cupboards for his music, which in -time overflowed into the rooms as he required more space for his -collections of original manuscripts, engravings, photographs, etc. A few -engravings adorned the walls, and his little bust of Beethoven reminded -him pleasantly of the old home in the Fuhlentwiethe. Frau Vogel was -responsible only for his mending, for the cleaning and dusting of his -rooms, and for opening the house-door to visitors. He took his early -dinner at a restaurant--the 'Kronprinz,' the 'Goldspinnerin,' the 'Zur -schönen Laterne,' and, for about the last fourteen years of his life, -at the 'Zum rothen Igel,' in the Wildpret Markt--and read the newspapers -afterwards over a cup of black coffee at one of the coffee-houses, in -his latter years generally the Café Stadtpark. He supped either at home, -with a book for company--when his fare usually consisted of -bread-and-butter and sausage, with a glass of beer or light wine--or -again at a restaurant, when, as at dinner, he liked to be joined by his -intimates. Needless to say, the private hospitality of friends was -abundantly at his command whenever he chose to avail himself of it. - -The second performance of the Song of Destiny--the first since -publication--took place at the Gesellschaft concert of January 21, under -the direction of Anton Rubinstein, who held the post of 'artistic -director' of the society during the season 1870-71, succeeding Herbeck -on his appointment as capellmeister of the imperial opera. - -The gratification which must have been felt by the composer at the -exceptional impression created by his work on his Austrian public was to -be clouded a few days later by news of his father's grave illness. Jakob -had been ailing for a year past, and had been obliged to resign his post -at the Philharmonic, together with smaller engagements, and accustom -himself to the sight of his beloved double-bass standing mute in a -corner of his parlour. Johannes, perceiving that advancing years were -beginning to tell on his father, had prescribed a change of residence -from the fourth story of 1, Anscharplatz to a first-floor flat in the -same street, but the failure of strength had not been recognised as -serious. Jakob did not complain of any particular symptoms, and it was -only on the occasion of his fetching the doctor to his stepson Fritz -Schnack, who had been brought home ill from St. Petersburg, that he -bethought himself to ask advice on his own account, when his alarming -condition became immediately apparent to the physician. Johannes, who -was immediately sent for, was on the spot without delay, and spent the -next fortnight at the bedside of the stricken man, whom he watched with -tenderest care and tried to cheer with loving encouragement. But the end -was near. Jakob was in the grip of a fatal malady which had ravaged his -constitution continuously during the past twelve months, though his -sufferings were neither acute nor prolonged. He died on February 11, in -his sixty-sixth year, from cancer of the liver, in the presence of his -wife and two sons, and an estrangement of some duration between Johannes -and the less energetic Fritz--returned from two years' absence in -Venezuela--was healed at his death-bed. The son's grief, as may be -expected from all that we have related of his clinging family affection, -was profound. His consolation was found in endeavours for the protection -and comfort of the woman who had brought contentment to the closing -years of Jakob's life, and he stayed on with Frau Caroline after the -funeral, helping her to make necessary arrangements and to look through -his father's little possessions. The old indentures of apprenticeship, -the document of citizenship, memorials of Jakob's early struggles and -modest personal successes, passed into the composer's keeping. A small -portrait in oils, of little value as a picture, but bearing evidence of -having been a good likeness of Jakob in his early manhood, was left with -the widow. 'Mother,' said Johannes excitedly the day before his -departure from Hamburg, turning suddenly to Frau Caroline after standing -for some minutes in silence before the painting, 'as long as you live, -this of course is yours, but promise that at your death it shall come to -me in Vienna!' The promise, readily given, was destined to remain -unfulfilled. Frau Caroline, her stepson's senior by more than six years, -was to outlive him. - -Brahms' care for his father's widow did not cease with his return to his -occupations in Vienna. When Fritz Schnack was convalescent, and the year -sufficiently advanced for change of air to be desirable, he was sent -with his mother to Pinneberg, a pleasant country town of Holstein in -great repute with the citizens of Hamburg on account of its -health-giving climate. The visit proved so beneficial that Johannes -decided to settle his stepbrother there permanently to carry on the -business of a watch and clock maker, which he had hitherto followed in -St. Petersburg. He established him in a pleasant shop, providing him -with all the requisites for a new start, and wished to guarantee a -comfortable home for Frau Caroline as mistress of her son's modest -household; but the bright, energetic widow did not like the idea of -relinquishing her own activity. It was settled, therefore, that she -should return to Hamburg and to her business of taking boarders in the -first-floor flat in the Anscharplatz, on the condition, rigorously -extorted by Johannes, that she was to draw upon him in all cases of need -for herself or her son. Brahms was wont to complain to his stepmother in -after-years that she did not sufficiently fulfil her part of the -bargain, to scold her because she did not ask for money, and to propose -and insist on holiday journeys for herself and Fritz; and from the day -of his father's death to that of his own the kind, capable housewife -continued to be the representative to the great tone-poet of the simple, -restful tie of family affection to which he clung from beginning to end -of his career. - -Elise Brahms was supported by her brother until her marriage, some time -later than our present date, with a watchmaker named Grund, a widower -with a family, and was the recipient of his generosity until her death -in 1892. Fritz, 'the wrong Brahms,' as he was sometimes called, by way -of distinguishing him from Johannes, gained a good position in Hamburg -as a private teacher of the pianoforte, and was for some years on the -staff of visiting teachers at Fräulein Homann's ladies' school at -Hamm--an establishment which enjoyed distinguished English as well as -German patronage. He had only so far followed in his brother's footsteps -as to have been the pupil successively of Cossel and Marxsen, and to -have made a few public appearances in Hamburg as pianist in his own Trio -concerts. His talents might have carried him farther if he had been more -active and ambitious. 'Is this your pianoforte-teacher's pace?' demanded -Johannes sharply on one of his visits to Hamburg, as he was striding -along the street in front of his brother, who could not or would not -keep up with him. Fritz was a favourite with his friends; he possessed -his share of the family humour, and was never known to brag. 'How is -your great brother?' an acquaintance asked him one day. 'What do you -mean?' retorted Fritz, who was tall and thin; 'I am bigger than he is!' -He died unmarried in Hamburg in 1886, at the age of fifty-one. - -Preliminary arrangements were made in good time for the performance of -the completed Triumphlied at the Rhine Festival of 1872, held in -Düsseldorf; but as the date drew near the committee strangely refused to -invite the composer to conduct his work, and Brahms therefore withheld -the manuscript. It was performed for the first time on June 5 at a -farewell concert arranged by the Grand-Ducal Orchestra and the -Philharmonic Society of Carlsruhe jointly, for their departing conductor -Hermann Levi, who had been called to the post of court capellmeister at -Munich, which he held with brilliant success until failing health -compelled his retirement in 1896. Both Frau Schumann and Stockhausen -contributed to the programme of the concert, Stockhausen, as a matter of -course, singing the short solo of the Triumphlied. The performance seems -to have been a fine one, though the chorus at command only numbered 150 -members. An enthusiastic account of the work sent from Carlsruhe to the -_Allgemeine Musikzeitung_ by Franz Gehring concludes: - - 'We Germans may feel proud that such an artist has been inspired by - the impression of the most momentous events to which our history - can point, to the composition of such a triumph-song. To the year - 1870 attaches, not only the renown of our arms, but a new epoch of - our musical art.... It is based upon the modern development of long - familiar forms and modes of expression. That this development has - shown itself to be true and healthy (who had not foreseen it in - Brahms' German Requiem!) is the merit of the German master Brahms, - the greatest of the present day!' - -Comparatively few musicians will be found in these days to deny that -Gehring's words were justified by the development of Brahms' own career, -though it cannot be concealed that a new epoch such as that to which the -reviewer looked forward seems to have closed for the present with the -master's death. - -Contrary to Brahms' established custom, he accepted a concert-engagement -in the course of the summer, and appeared with immense success at the -Baden-Baden Kursaal subscription concert of August 29 as composer, -conductor, and pianist, with his own A major Serenade and Schumann's -Pianoforte Concerto. Amongst the visitors to Lichtenthal in the course -of the season was Reinthaler, who had been present at the performance of -the Triumphlied at Carlsruhe, and returned later to spend a short -holiday near his friends. - -With the beginning of autumn, 1872, a period of ten years had elapsed -since Brahms' first visit to Vienna, and it will help the reader to -obtain a clear view of the development of his career as a composer if we -pause for a moment at this point, to consider what had been its special -features during the decade in the course of which he had gradually come -to regard Vienna as his home. We shall find that it had been entirely -logical and continuous, and singularly independent of those influences -of his changed environment to which imaginary effects on his art and -temperament have not seldom been attributed. - -We observe, in the first place, that only one solo has been added to the -long list of important works for the pianoforte, accompanied and -unaccompanied, which Brahms carried with him to Vienna in 1862, and of -this one it must be said that the Paganini studies in two books, -immensely brilliant and ingenious though they be, cannot be seriously -regarded from the musical standpoint of the Handel or other preceding -sets of variations, but must be accepted more or less as diversions of -the composer's leisure hours. Several of the variations are little more -than transcriptions for the piano of some of those written by Paganini -on the same theme for the violin. - -In the domain of chamber music, where, so far as it is yet possible to -anticipate the verdict of posterity, Brahms' place will be found amongst -the greatest composers of all periods, we find that his first series of -masterpieces for pianoforte and strings has been brought to a close -with the addition of two works--the Horn Trio performed in the autumn of -1865, and the Sonata in E minor for pianoforte and violoncello, whilst -by the side of the String Sextet in B flat has been placed another in G -major, not indeed transcending, but different from, and in every way -worthy of, its companion. With the enumeration of these published works -must be associated the mention of two others of peculiar interest in our -survey because they mark a fresh stage of Brahms' matured development. -The two String Quartets in C minor and A minor were kept in the -composer's desk for some years before they were finally completed. The -significance of their appearance, which we shall have to note in 1873, -as landmarks in Brahms' career, is best illustrated by the remembrance -that twenty years had elapsed since the fastidious self-criticism of the -young musician of twenty had caused the withdrawal of a string quartet -from the list of works proposed by Schumann for the consideration of the -publishers. - -Brahms' fertility as a song-writer for a single voice was constant, -though it matured and varied in its manifestations with the onward -progress of his life. We have already referred to some of the phases of -its long middle period. The decade we are considering witnessed the -publication of eight books of miscellaneous songs and three books of the -Magelone Romances. - -In the Liebeslieder, waltzes for pianoforte duet and vocal quartet, we -have the riper artistic fruition of the mood which produced the vocal -quartets, Op. 31, 'Alternative Dance Song,' 'Raillery,' and 'The Walk to -the Beloved,' composed at Detmold; and to the same early period the -Waltzes for pianoforte duet dedicated to Hanslick primarily belong. - -The splendid achievement, however, which pre-eminently distinguishes -this portion of Brahms' career is to be found in another domain: that in -which we may now, in 1872, contemplate the literal fulfilment of -Schumann's much discussed prophecy; that in which 'the masses of chorus -and orchestra _have_ lent him their powers.' The composer has most -truly 'sunk his magic staff and revealed to us wondrous glimpses of the -spirit world.' The period which produced the German Requiem, the Song of -Destiny, and the Song of Triumph (1866-1871) could hardly be surpassed -in the brilliancy of its own special branch of achievement, and with the -completion of the last of these works the growth of Brahms' powers upon -this particular line of development had reached its summit. The choral -works in which the master hand of the great composer was to be again -revealed, whilst they afford additional opportunities of enjoyment to -the lovers of his art, could not, from the nature of those that had -preceded them, increase the lustre of his fame. - -Of works for orchestra alone the two Serenades published in 1860 are -still the only examples. As we have seen,[44] Brahms, in the summer of -1862, showed Dietrich the first movement of the C minor Symphony, 'which -appeared, greatly altered, much later on,'[45] but since then the -composer's invariable answer to his friend's inquiries had been that the -time for a symphony had not yet arrived. The ten years we are -considering are, in fact, characteristic of the composer as well by -their silence as by their song. We cannot doubt that just as his choral -works were the ultimate outcome of a long period of retirement and -study, of which we have traced the early as well as the late results, so -the period of his symphonic achievement was being gradually prepared for -by special work as fundamental and unwearied. Of this we shall very soon -have to note the perfected first-fruits on the appearance of a short -orchestral composition, now amongst the most familiar and valued of the -treasures with which Brahms has enriched the musical world. - -[35] 'Johannes Brahms in Erinnerung,' p. 37. - -[36] 'Meine Bekanntschaft mit Brahms,' _Die Musik_, No. 5 of 1902. - -[37] A few words that occur in a letter of Mendelssohn to his sister -Fanny Hensel are of interest here. 'Yesterday I read "Nausikaa" to -Cécile in Voss' translation.... This poem is really irresistible when it -becomes sentimental. I always felt an inclination to set it to music, of -course not for the theatre, only as an epic, and this whole day I feel -renewed pleasure in the idea' (p. 148 of Lady Wallace's translation of -Mendelssohn's letters, 1833-1847). - -[38] The entire letter is published by Richard Heuberger in the -supplement to the _Allgemeine Musikzeitung_, 1899, No. 260. - -[39] 'Franz Liszt's Briefe an Carl Gille,' with a biographical -introduction by Adolph Stern. - -[40] Numbers 1, 3, 10, were published in 1874 as arranged by the -composer for orchestra, and were frequently conducted by him about that -date. - -[41] The full programme was as follows: - -A German Requiem (under Reinthaler's direction). - -Arie from Handel's 'Messiah' and Graun's 'Der Tod Jesu.' - -'Hallelujah, Heil and Preis sei Gott.' A song of Triumph for eight-part -Chorus and Orchestra lately composed by Johannes Brahms (under the -composer's direction). - -Soprano, Frau Wilt from Vienna, Imperial chamber singer. - -Baritone, Herr Schelper, of the Berlin Court Opera. - -(The chorus of the Singakademie was augmented for the occasion to about -300 voices.) - -The general (public) rehearsal took place on Thursday evening, April 6. - -[42] The following were, as the author believes, first performances in -this country: - -_Quartet in A major for Pianoforte and Strings_: May 23, 1871. St. -James's Hall, Musical Union (John Ella), by Jaell, Heermann, Wäfelghem, -Lasserre. - -_Pianoforte Concerto, D minor_: March 9, 1872. Crystal Palace (A. -Manns), by Miss Baglehole (pupil of the pianist W. H. Holmes, one of the -first English musicians to appreciate the significance of Brahms' art). -The concerto was played for the second time in London by Jaell at the -Philharmonic concert of June 23, 1873. - -_Sextet for Strings, G major_: November 27, 1872. St. George's Hall, -Musical Evenings, by Henry Holmes, Folkes, Burnett, Hann, C. Ould, -Pezze. - -_Ballades for Pianoforte, Op. 10, Nos. 2 and 3_: March 17, 1873. St. -James's Hall, Monday Popular Concerts (S. Arthur Chappell), by Frau -Schumann. - -_Handel Variations and Fugue for Pianoforte_: November 12, 1873. Crystal -Palace, by Florence May. - -_Hungarian Variations for Pianoforte_: March 25, 1874. Crystal Palace, -by Florence May. - -_Schumann Variations (Pianoforte Duet)_: March 30, 1874. St. James's -Hall, Monday Popular Concerts, by Miss Agnes Zimmermann and Mr. Franklin -Taylor. - -_Serenade in A major (small Orchestra)_: June 29, 1874. St. James's -Hall, Philharmonic Society. Conductor: W. G. Cusins. - -_Liebeslieder, Op. 52_: January 15 and 27, 1877. St. James's Hall, M. -and S. Popular Concerts. Pianists: Fräulein Marie Krebs and Miss A. -Zimmermann. Singers: Fräulein Sophie Löwe, Fräulein Redeker, William -Shakespeare, G. Pyatt. - -_Neue Liebeslieder, Walzer, Op. 65_: May 18, 1877. Cambridge University -Musical Society's Concerts. Pianists: C. Villiers Stanford and Raoul C. -de Versan. Singers: Fräulein Thekla Friedländer, Fräulein Redeker, Rev. -L. Borrisow, Gerard F. Cobb. - -N.B.--The _Quartet in G minor_ and the _Quintet in F minor_, both for -_Pianoforte and Strings_, were played for the first time at the Popular -Concerts respectively on January 26, 1874, by Hallé, Madame -Norman-Néruda (now Lady Hallé), Ludwig Straus, and Piatti; and on -February 27, 1875, by Hallé, Joachim, L. Ries, and Piatti, but may have -been previously given in England elsewhere. - -The _Pianoforte Concerto in D minor_ was played for the first time in -Vienna at one of the Philharmonic Concerts of the season 1870-71, by the -composer, and for the second time in March, 1873, by Anton Door. - -[43] The author has followed the date given in the published catalogue -of the issue of these two books of songs. By their opus numbers they -would rather belong to the year 1873 or 1874. Brahms' well-known -arrangement for Pianoforte of Gluck's Gavotte in A was published in 1871 -by Senff. - -[44] P. 278 of Vol. I. - -[45] Dietrich, p. 42. - - - - - CHAPTER XVI - 1872-1876 - - 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 - Engelmann--String Quartets--First performances--Anselm Feuerbach in - Vienna--Variations for Orchestra--First performances--'Triumphlied' - at Cologne, Basle, and Zürich--Resignation of appointment as - 'artistic director' to the Gesellschaft--Third Pianoforte Quartet. - - -Brahms returned to Vienna for the concert-season of 1872-73 with a new -and absorbing interest before him. He had accepted the appointment of -'artistic director' to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, thereby -undertaking the duties of conductor, not only of the society's concerts, -but of the bi-weekly practices of its choral society. The usual scheme -of the Gesellschaft concert-season, extending from about the middle of -November to April, comprised four regular, and two extra, concerts with -orchestra and chorus, one at least of which was devoted to an oratorio -or other great choral work. - - 'Brahms will now conduct the Gesellschaft concerts,' writes - Billroth on October 25; 'he is preparing Handel's _Te Deum_ and - "Saul," two Bach cantatas, his "Triumphlied," etc. At present he is - all enthusiasm over the direction of the choral society, and - enraptured with the voices and the musical talent of the choir. - Should the results be favourable, he will, I think, persevere; a - failure might suffice to discourage him so much as to deprive him - of all inclination for the work....' - -The season opened on November 10 with the following programme: - - 1. G. F. Handel: _Te Deum_ for the Dettingen celebration - of victory, 1743. - 2. W. A. Mozart: Aria for Soprano, with obl. accompaniment - for pianoforte and orchestra - (Frau Wilt). - 3.(_a_) J. Eccard: 'Ueber's Gebirg Maria geht.' - (_b_) H. Isaak: 'Inspruk ich muss dich lassen.' - Choruses _a capella_. - 4. F. Schubert: Symphony in C major (arranged for - Orchestra from the Pianoforte Duet, - Op. 140, by J. Joachim). - -This selection hardly invited an enthusiastic demonstration from a mixed -audience, but the performances were well received, and the occasion -resulted in a substantial artistic success for Brahms, and in the -removal of the doubt which had been entertained, even in some friendly -quarters, as to his fitness for his new duties. The inclusion of the -so-called symphony by Schubert was mentioned with disapproval by some of -the papers, though the masterly instrumentation of Joachim's -arrangement--made, we may add, at Schumann's suggestion--was duly -acknowledged. - -The second concert, the first 'extra' of the season, was in every -respect brilliant. It included the second performance of the complete -Triumphlied, published shortly before by Simrock with Brahms' dedication -to His Majesty the Emperor William I. The original title inscribed on -the manuscript of the work--'Song of Triumph on the Victory of German -Arms'--was shortened on publication to the simple 'Song of Triumph.' The -programme of December 6 was as follows: - - 1. Handel: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra. - 2. Mozart: Offertorium for double Chorus, Orchestra, - and Organ. - 3. Gluck: Aria from the opera 'Alcestis' (Frau - Joachim). - 4. J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat for Organ. - 5. J. Brahms: Song of Triumph for Solo, eight-part Chorus, - Orchestra, and Organ (solo, Dr. Krauss). - -The performances of the great organ-player S. de Lange, invited from -Rotterdam for the occasion, on the society's new instrument, which had -been inaugurated at the previous concert by Bibl; the singing of Gluck's -aria by Frau Joachim; the rendering of two choral works, both new to the -audience, the productions of two masters each representative of his day, -with the art history of a century lying between them, combined to make a -programme of peculiar and varied interest. The Offertorium, an -unpublished work composed by Mozart in his twenty-first year, was -written for double chorus and organ, to which the composer afterwards -added two violins. Brahms now availed himself for the support of his -voices of the entire string band, and the performance of the beautiful -and unfamiliar work made a great impression. It was published almost -immediately by J. P. Gotthard of Vienna. The most important event of the -concert was, of course, the first performance in Vienna of the -performer's Song of Triumph. - - 'A truly magnificent work, which produced a profound and enduring - impression,' says Schelle; 'the German victories have been the - occasion of its composition.... Both as regards its form and its - treatment of masses, this work bears the stamp of a masterpiece. - The performances were excellent. The society's concerts could - certainly be in no better hands.' - -The Triumphlied was given a week later, December 14, in Munich, under -Franz Wüllner, and was again reviewed at length in the _Allgemeine -Zeitung_ of the 25th in a highly interesting article by Franz Pyllemann. - - 'The orchestra develops truly royal splendour.... What wealth of - tone-combination, what intoxicating charm of colouring, strike the - ear of the listener! The knowledge shown in the use and application - of the most appropriate and noble means of expression, as offered - by the various instruments, must be noted with deep admiration. - Brahms' mastery in the handling of chorus has long been common - knowledge. He makes great demands on his singers, and does not - readily restrict the development of an artistic idea on account - either of their convenience or their uncertainty. But, how his - choral movements sound! In this respect, the master stands nearer - to the heroes of choral composition, and especially Handel, than - any other modern musician. He has studied their works; he has most - intimately fused their, for our time, almost enigmatical technique - with the many resources of modern art; so that we might often - suppose ourselves to be listening, as regards his thematic work, - the polyphonic construction of his parts, to a masterpiece of the - eighteenth century, whilst the character of the themes, the quality - of the harmonies, the condition of the form, on the whole and in - detail, are entirely modern, are quite specifically "Brahms."' - -The work was given at the Gewandhaus Concerts, Leipzig, on February 27, -1873. - -The effect of the second 'regular' Gesellschaft concert of the season, -on January 5, 1873, was marred by a series of misfortunes. Three works -were announced for performance: - - 1. Hiller: Concert Overture in D major. - 2. Schumann: 'Des Sängers Fluch.' - 3. Mendelssohn: 'Die Walpurgis Nacht.' - -Hiller, who happened to be staying in Vienna, had promised to conduct -his overture to 'Demetrius,' the most successful of his four works in -this form, but, owing to an accident to the music, it was necessary to -substitute another, which proved ineffective. The drummer was attacked -by sudden illness on the day of the concert, and the substitute provided -proved unequal to the emergency; Hiller was obliged to rap for silence -immediately after beginning the performance of his work, and to -recommence. A similar mishap attended the course of the 'Sängers Fluch,' -under Brahms' direction, in consequence of a misunderstanding between -the solo vocalists and the harpists. Mendelssohn's work alone went -without a blemish. - -A very great success was obtained at the next concert, on February 28, -the second 'extra' of the season, with Handel's oratorio 'Saul,' given -for the first time in Vienna. The great work was received with -enthusiasm, and the performance pronounced perfect both by public and -press. - -This was followed, at the next 'regular' concert on March 23, by a -varied programme: - - 1. Bach: Easter Cantata, 'Christ lag in Todesbanden.' - - 2. Haydn: Symphony in C major. - - 3. German Folk-songs for unaccompanied mixed Chorus: - (_a_) 'In stiller Nacht.' - (_b_) 'Dort in den Weiden steht ein Haus.' - - 4. Schubert: 'Ellen's zweites Gesang' (arranged for - Soprano solo, women's Chorus, and Instruments - by Brahms). - - 5. Beethoven: Chorus from 'Die Weihe des Hauses,' for - Soprano solo, Chorus, and Orchestra. - -The attitude of the audience during the early part of this concert was -somewhat doubtful, the opening cantata being followed with earnestness, -but with scanty demonstrations of approval. At the entry of the chorale -at the close of the work, however, an electric feeling passed through -the packed hall as at the release from strained attention, and the -applause which followed was loud and resounding. - - 'It is hardly possible to bestow enough praise upon the performance - of the cantata,' says Schelle (the _Presse_); 'the choral society - and their conductor Brahms acquitted themselves most splendidly of - their task, and warm acknowledgment is also due to Herr Organist - Bibl.' - -Similar praise is given to the performance of the other numbers of the -programme, special mention being made of the folk-songs, one of which -had to be repeated. - - 'In a word,' concludes the critic, 'the satisfaction caused us by - the beautifully arranged concert must, we think, have been equalled - by that felt by Brahms at its success.' - -Billroth gives an interesting account, in a letter dated March 29, of -the energy and success of Brahms' work in this new field of labour. - - 'Brahms is extremely active as a conductor; he has achieved - incomparably fine performances, and receives the fullest - recognition from all who take art earnestly. His "Triumphlied," - given with organ and an immense chorus, produced a marvellous - effect here; great masses are required for its performance, it is - monumental music.... - - 'At the last concert Brahms ventured upon one of the most difficult - of Bach's cantatas, composed to Luther's text, "Christ lay in bonds - of death," which had never before been performed. The Viennese - accepted this with amiability from such a favourite as Brahms. Two - unaccompanied folk-songs which came next ("In stiller Nacht" and - "Der schönste Bursch am ganzen Rhein") awakened such a storm of - applause, however, that one almost felt afraid the house would fall - in. The old King of Hanover was almost beside himself with musical - intoxication. One becomes quite drunk with the beautiful quality of - sound produced by this choir, whose increase and decrease (_f._ and - _p._) are carried on like those of one voice....' - -Sufficient detail has now been given of the Gesellschaft concert-season -of 1872-73 to show the wisdom of the committee in their choice of a new -'artistic director,' and it only remains to mention the advertised -'last' concert of April 6. Two works were brought to a hearing: - - 1. Bach: Cantata, 'Liebster Gott, wann werd' ich sterben.' - 2. Cherubini: Requiem in C minor. - -The success of the performances may be inferred from the fact that the -programme was repeated two days later at an additional concert hastily -arranged to fulfil the general demand for an encore. - -Brahms was singularly unfortunate this year in his efforts to secure a -quiet retreat for the pursuit of his usual summer avocations. Flying, -after two days' residence in lodgings in Gratwein, Styria, from the -attentions of some 'æsthetic ladies' who began to threaten his peace, he -took refuge in the attic of the 'Seerose,' an inn in the Bavarian -village of Tutzing, on Lake Starnberg, to receive, the very night of his -arrival, a formal written invitation to make one, during his stay, of a -light-hearted fellowship of youthful authors, painters, and musicians -who held their meetings in the house. An early hour of the morning -witnessed his second abrupt departure, the only answer vouchsafed to the -missive being its torn fragments scattered on the floor of his room. He -took refuge this time with Levi at Munich, and made his headquarters at -his friend's house during the early part of the summer, seeing much also -of Allgeyer, who had been invited to settle professionally in the -Bavarian capital shortly after Levi's departure from Carlsruhe. Later -on Brahms attended the Schumann Festival at Bonn (August 17-19), -arranged, by Joachim's suggestion, for the purpose of assisting a fund -for the erection of a memorial to Schumann in the city where the master -had passed the two last sad years of his life, and where a Beethoven -monument had been unveiled in 1871. There were orchestral concerts on -the 17th and 18th, both conducted by Joachim, excepting in the case of -one work (Wasielewsky), and a matinée of chamber music on the 19th, the -programmes, in which Frau Schumann, Frau Joachim, Stockhausen, and -others took part, being entirely selected from Schumann's works. The -festival closed with a social function, an excursion by steamer to -Rolandseck. The presence at Bonn of each member of the remarkable -quartet of great musicians, whom we have seen closely bound together by -ties of artistic and personal friendship through nearly twenty years, -was made the more interesting by the addition of Ferdinand Hiller, the -intimate ally of all four. Many other old friends were there, of whom -Freiherr von Meysenbug, as reviving Detmold memories, should be -particularly mentioned. Brahms made some new acquaintances also, notably -Professor Engelmann and his gifted wife, known in the musical world for -a few seasons as the pianist Fräulein Emma Brandes, who retired from a -public career on her early marriage. - -Brahms, though taking no active part in the concerts, was not at all -averse to contributing to the private artistic pleasures of the week. -The most memorable of these was the first introduction to a few of his -friends of the Variations on a theme by Haydn, which he played with Frau -Schumann in the version of the work for two pianofortes. Another day he -turned into a pianoforte warehouse in the course of a walk with -Wasielewsky, and sitting down before one of the instruments extemporized -one waltz after another. - -After leaving Bonn he paid his annual visit to Lichtenthal, where Frau -Schumann and her daughters also stayed for a few weeks, though it was no -longer their place of residence. They moved this year to Berlin, and in -future only visited Baden-Baden for occasional change. Brahms sometimes -met his old friends there in the summer until the year 1878, when Frau -Schumann accepted an appointment at the Conservatoire of Music founded -by Dr. Hoch at Frankfurt. She then sold her house at Lichtenthal, and -Brahms' subsequent association with the neighbourhood was limited to -rare visits of a few days. Frau Schumann continued to live at Frankfurt -from this time, though she resigned her duties at the conservatoire some -years before her death. - -Meanwhile Brahms spent several weeks of this and succeeding summers at -his old lodgings, and one day in August of this year he played the -finally completed String Quartets in C minor and A minor, and the -'Rain-songs' to Frau Schumann. She had heard the C minor Quartet, as the -reader may remember, in the summer of 1866. The composer played both -works to Dr. Hermann Deiters when he was staying at Bonn in 1868. - -Claus Groth's poem 'Rain-song' and the shorter one 'Echo,' which form -the texts of Nos. 3 and 4 of Brahms' Op. 59, were particular favourites -of our master. He composed the 'Nachklang,' of which he chose the title, -twice. The published version is the second of the two. Musical readers -will remember that melody and accompaniment are used again in the duet -Sonata in G major. - -Both String Quartets were performed privately in Berlin by Joachim and -his colleagues. They were played for the first time in public; that in A -minor in Berlin at the Joachim Quartet concert of October 18 from the -manuscript; that in C minor at the Hellmesberger concert of December 11 -in Vienna from the printed copies. - -[Illustration: BRAHMS AT THE AGE OF 40.] - -The appearance of these two works as Op. 51, Nos. 1 and 2, forms, as we -have said, another and important landmark in the development of Brahms' -career. The String Quartet holds a position of peculiar significance in -the art of music, and a composer, by selecting this form for the -exercise of his powers, exposes them to the most unfailing test to which -his calibre as a musician can possibly be submitted. He must possess -not only fertility in the production of purely musical concentrated -ideas, and ideas capable of development; the power to develop them, -which means many things, and the capacity for shaping them into clear -structure; but he must be able to express them with the most bare and -simple musical means, with four strings. From the rapid effects of -strong and strongly contrasted sensation producible by the pianoforte, -or the varied tone-colour of the orchestra, he is precluded. With his -four strings he can interest, delight, touch, but hardly astonish his -hearers. The String Quartet is absolute music in its purest form, and -but few works in this domain can survive their birth unless they be -destined to attain a long life. The means are perfect for the end, but -this is difficult of achievement; only the quartet of a master has much -chance of being heard after its first few performances. It will be -evident to the reader that Brahms was fitted by many essential -characteristics of his genius for success in this branch of art, though -it cannot cause surprise that one of his great qualities, the power of -waiting for results, should have strengthened his fastidiousness in -accepting as final the fruits of his studies in a form which had been -brought to ideal perfection by Haydn and Beethoven, each in their day. -On the great musicianship manifest in Brahms' quartets, on his mastery -over his means, his power of completely balancing his four parts, of -making each a separate individuality whilst all blend harmoniously as -equal constituents of an organic whole, it is only necessary to insist -here in so far as these qualities are elements in another feature which -pre-eminently marks our master's chamber music for strings: the -extraordinary beauty of its structure. Throughout the three quartets and -two quintets for strings composed by Brahms there is not only no mere -passage writing, but it would be difficult to point to a single note -that could be called superfluous. Each seems to have been placed with -loving care by the master hand of the great musical architect, the -artist builder, as an essential part of the whole large design. When we -examine the thoughts themselves and their development we find that we -are, as in all Brahms' works, in the presence of a powerful and -fascinating individuality. Ideas and treatment are the master's own, not -easy at once to understand, but offering almost inexhaustible -opportunity for discovery and enjoyment to listeners willing to earn -such rewards. The two quartets, Op. 51, are more or less severally -representative of contrasted sides of Brahms' individuality. The first, -in C minor, is generally characterized by fire and impetuosity, -exquisitely relieved by the tender romance of the second movement; No. -2, in A minor, is conceived in a softer vein. The last movement of this -work contains a beautiful example of the characteristic Brahms coda; the -augmented vigour of the climax is preceded by a period of tranquillity -that seems to place the listener in an atmosphere of mystic exaltation, -to afford him 'glimpses of a spirit world' from which the previous -thoughts of the movement flow towards him in transfigured tones. Lovers -of the master's music will recall a similar feature in other works. In -the opening theme of the first movement, which is suggestive of -Joachim's early device F.A.E.-- - -[Music: Excerpt from the first movement of Brahms's String Quartet in A -Minor, Op. 51, No. 2, etc.] - -we may, perhaps, perceive a passing reference to the remembrance of his -friend which must certainly have been present to Brahms' mind as he -planned these works. Instances of the composer's mastery of the art of -modulation, of his boldness and facility in going to, and returning from -unexpected and distant keys, may be found in the two quartets as in the -majority of his instrumental compositions. They were dedicated by Brahms -to 'his friend Dr. Theodor Billroth of Vienna,' and were published in -the autumn by Simrock. - -Amongst those who had looked forward with particular expectancy to the -opening of the great World Exhibition that was held in Vienna in the -autumn of 1873 was the painter Anselm Feuerbach. He had, the previous -year, accepted the offer of an appointment as director of the historical -class about to be formed in the Imperial Academy of Plastic Arts of that -city, but had begged for a year's leave of absence in Rome before -entering on his new duties, in order that he might finish two great -pictures, 'The Battle of the Amazons' and 'The Second Symposium,' the -exhibition of which he conceived likely to establish his fame and to -secure him an authoritative position on taking up his residence in -Austria. The nearly finished pictures were sent to Vienna in March or -April, and Feuerbach followed them in May, 1873, but it turned out that -they could not be hung in the Exhibition gallery on account of their -great size. The painter determined, therefore, to exhibit them one after -the other in the 'Künstler-Haus,' and, in order to secure the advantage -of association in the mind of the public with so favourite a celebrity -of Vienna as Brahms had at this time become, he requested the master to -sit to him on his return in October in order that his portrait might be -exhibited with the other pictures. - -Feuerbach was a small man of ultra-refined appearance and manners, and a -countenance of rather melancholy expression that had evidently been of -striking beauty in his youth. He was accustomed to be made much of by -ladies, was extremely sensitive and self-centred, and inordinately vain, -and had confidently persuaded himself that his pictures were to achieve -an instant and overwhelming success. - - 'My pictures are splendid and all but finished,' he wrote to his - mother on October 2; 'why should I feel a moment's anxiety since I - have eminent power in my hands; genius and position.... The - Symposium also is quite exquisite, I may say so now as I have seen - the Vatican.'[46] - -Brahms, who had, as we have seen, a long-standing acquaintance with -Feuerbach and sincerely admired his powers, mounted the many flights of -stairs leading to the artist's temporary studio more than once. His -attention was particularly called to the 'Battle of the Amazons,' on -which, as it was to be exhibited first, Feuerbach was busy with the -finishing touches. He mentioned it several times in a reserved manner to -Groth, who was in Vienna for the Exhibition, saying he was anxious to -have his opinion of it, and persuaded him to pay a visit to the studio -one day to be presented to Feuerbach. Groth, however, on coming away, -found that he was unable, as Brahms had been, to express himself warmly -about the great painting, and merely agreed with our master in 'not -understanding' it. Brahms, intimately acquainted with the artist circles -of Vienna, evidently could not shake off his apprehension as to the -result of the exhibition, and took an opportunity of speaking a word of -warning to Feuerbach, advising him to be cautious, and to introduce -himself to his new public with a smaller work. The integrity of the -composer's ideas of friendship and the misunderstanding of his motives -which was its frequent result, as well as the general soundness of his -judgment in matters on which he ventured to give advice, are well -illustrated by the affair. His words produced an immediate effect very -different from that intended by him. The wound they inflicted on the -irritable susceptibility of the painter was so painful as to deprive him -of the power of concentrating his mind upon the 'Amazons' for several -subsequent days, and he found it impossible to go on with Brahms' -portrait. - -'Another evening spoilt by Brahms,' he wrote on November 3; and again: -'I was not for a second angry with Brahms, but I have put his canvas -aside for the present.' It was never taken up again. - -The pictures were duly exhibited in turn, and it may be said that the -final breakdown of Feuerbach's never robust constitution was the -ultimate result. Not criticism only or even chiefly, but torrents of -contempt, derision, insult were poured upon his work. - - 'A storm broke over my head by which I could at least reassure - myself as to the importance of my pictures. I could not sit down - to table without finding jests, raillery, caricature--unfortunately - always bad--beside my plate, and the story of my discomfiture was - related in the house from roof to cellar. I was told that everyone, - from the professor to the porter's boy, was laughing at my bad - picture.' - - 'Almost the entire press, independent and mercenary alike, was - arrayed against Feuerbach,' says Allgeyer. - -His pupils, however, offered him the mute sympathy and support of -punctual attendance and respectful attention at class, and the Minister -remained loyal to him. He retained his appointment till the close of -1876, though ill-health prevented him from performing his duties during -the last half-year. He died at Nürnburg in 1880. His friendship with our -master did not terminate with the incident of the pictures. - -'Brahms has lent me his fur-coat for my journey,' he wrote in February, -1875, on the eve of his departure for Rome. - -The 'Battle of the Amazons' was presented by the artist's mother to the -city of Nürnburg in the year 1889, and hangs there in the picture -gallery of the Town Hall. Many of the studies for the 'Amazons' and the -'Symposium' were purchased by King Ludwig II. of Bavaria, and presented -by him to the Royal Pinakothek at Munich. - -Of the many letters of congratulation received by Allgeyer after the -appearance of his 'Life of Feuerbach' in 1894, one of those most highly -prized by him came from Brahms. - -Brahms paid one visit to the great Exhibition in the company of Groth -and other friends, though the noise and bustle of such a scene were by -no means to his taste. He was more anxious that his friend should see -and hear what was really characteristic of Vienna. 'You must go to the -Volksgarten on Friday evening when Johann Strauss will conduct his -waltzes. _There_ is a master; such a master of the orchestra that one -never loses a single tone of whatever instrument!' - -Having promised to arrange a meeting between Frau Dustmann of the -imperial opera and Groth, Brahms came to the poet's hotel one morning, -and entering the room where he was lying in bed with a bad feverish -cold, exclaimed delightedly: 'Come to me this evening, the Dustmann will -sing to you.' 'But you see I am ill,' returned Groth testily. 'You will -be astonished,' continued Brahms, whose boast it was that he had never -in his life been really ill, '_there_ is a singer, _there_ is an artist; -_she_ will please you!' 'Ah, my dear fellow, I really cannot come,' -pleaded the other, 'Johann has just put a cold compress on, I am so -miserable!' 'She is very seldom free just now; she cannot come another -day.' 'Surely you see how miserable I am. How I should like to come, but -I cannot,' persisted Groth. Then Brahms turned to go. 'You are a -Philistine!' he declared angrily as he left the room.[47] - -The ante-Christmas season of 1873, signalized on its immediate opening -by the performance of the String Quartet in A minor at Berlin, already -referred to, was further rendered distinctive in Brahms' career by the -first performance from the manuscript of the Variations for Orchestra on -a theme by Haydn, which took place at the Vienna Philharmonic of -November 2 under Dessoff's direction. The masterly and attractive work -consists, as most amateurs are aware, of eight variations and a finale -on the 'Chorale St. Antoni.' The composer adheres almost entirely to -Haydn's harmonies in the giving out of the theme. The variations are -constructed on the principle often observable in his works in this form; -they constitute, as it were, a series of little movements each woven -more or less appreciably from the matter of the chorale, but each with a -character of its own and complete in itself, while the entire -composition is gathered together and rounded into a whole by the finale. -Brahms' vivid and original imagination of tone-effect is very clearly -discernible throughout the work, and is especially illustrated in it by -his original and effective employment of the double bassoon. - -The variations were received by the crowded audience, and reviewed by -the press, with warm welcome and with grateful appreciation of their -beauty and perfection, if with some trace of disappointment that he who -'held the sceptre' in the domain of music for the chamber and the -concert-room, and must of all living musicians be pre-eminently -qualified for the composition of a symphony, should be the very man to -refrain from writing one. Brahms, however, was well aware of the -gigantic difficulty of the task that lay before him in the writing of a -symphony that should successfully encounter that ordeal of comparison -with the greatest works of its class which had become inevitable by the -fact of his acknowledged supremacy in other forms. The ultimate cause of -his delay and the pledge of his future victory are alike to be found in -the nature of his artistic convictions, which, holding him loyal to the -traditions of the past masters of instrumental music, made it impossible -to him to seek novelty by compromising with modern methods. Brahms -elected to wait until, with the gradual ripening of his powers to full -maturity, he should feel, not only that he had something of his own to -say in the highest domain of pure music, but that he had mastered the -power of expressing it in a manner true to himself. Had he never felt -assured on these two points it is certain that no symphony of his would -ever have been made public, no matter to what sum of months the hours -might amount which he had devoted to the study and practice of writing -for the orchestra. Having now given a sign of his whereabouts he again -drew a veil over the course of his artistic development, and, appearing -before the public during the next three years only on ground which he -had already made his own, revealed no more upward stages of his -achievement until he at length stood victoriously before the world on -its summit. - -The variations were performed for the second time on December 10 under -Levi in Munich. - -The Gesellschaft season opened under Brahms' direction on November 9, -with Beethoven's Overture, Op. 115, and Handel's 'Alexander's Feast.' A -varied programme was given at the second concert of December 7: - - 1. Schubert: Overture to Fierrebras. - - 2. Schubert: Aria for Tenor (written in 1821 for introduction - into Herold's Opera 'Zauberglöcken' at the - Kärnthnerthor Theater, Vienna; - unpublished). Herr Gustav Walter. - - 3. Volkmann: Concertstück for Pianoforte and Orchestra. - Pianoforte, Herr Smetansky. - - 4. (_a_) Joh. Rud. Ahle (1662)} Unaccompanied Choruses. - (_b_) J. S. Bach } - - 5. Bach: Cantata, 'Nun ist das Heil,' for double - Chorus, Orchestra and Organ. - - 6. Jac. Gallus: Unaccompanied Chorus, 'Ecce Quomodo.' - - 7. Beethoven: Choral Fantasia for Pianoforte (Smetansky), - Orchestra, and Chorus. - -The publications of the year, all issued in the autumn, were, in -addition to the String Quartets, the version for two Pianofortes of the -Haydn Variations (Op. 56_b_), by Simrock, and a set of eight Songs (Op. -59), by Rieter-Biedermann. Of these, four are set to texts by Claus -Groth, which include 'Rain-songs' and the lovely 'Dein blaues Auge hält -so still.' The Variations for Orchestra were published by Simrock in -1874. - -Brahms was at this time quite immersed in his various kinds of work. - - 'I am so enormously occupied that I see my best friends only very - rarely and by accident,' he wrote in December to the present - author. - -It had now become his custom to decline invitations for the Christmas -festival, and to spend it, partly at the open-air Christmas market, -where he made himself happy by purchasing gifts for the poor children -whom he found crowding round the tempting wares, and partly at home, -where he would look in for half an hour at the family party gathered in -front of his landlady's Christmas-tree; no doubt contributing his share -to the surprises of Christmas Eve, the 'sacred evening' when, throughout -the length and breadth of Germany and Austria, innumerable trees are -lighted up at about the same hour, and the great exchange takes place of -presents to which, in many cases, the preparation and savings of a year -have been consecrated. A New Year's present of a special kind received -by Brahms this winter was the Maximilian Order for Art and Science -conferred on him by King Ludwig II. of Bavaria. - -The year 1874 was unusually full of movement and varied excitement for -our composer. From January onwards he was besieged with invitations, -many of which he accepted, to conduct his works at concerts and -festivals in North Germany, the Rhine, Switzerland, and was obliged to -reply in the negative to Dietrich's request, received in the beginning -of spring, that he would include Oldenburg in his arrangements. - - 'DEAR FRIEND, - - 'I am more than sorry, but you are too late! I have already - promised so much, and shall not be coming to your neighbourhood! - - 'If you had written earlier I could have arranged with Hanover, - Bremen, etc., for, _seriously_, I should be too glad to go to you - again....' - -The third Gesellschaft concert of the season (1873-74) took place on -January 25. That the performances under Brahms would be above criticism -had become by this time almost a foregone conclusion, and, beyond -recording the great success achieved by Goldmark's 'Hymn of Spring,' it -is only necessary to give the programme of the occasion: - - 1. Rheinberger: Prelude to the Opera 'The Seven Ravens.' - - 2. Goldmark: 'Frühlings Hymne' (May musings, from the Swedish of - Geijer), for Contralto solo, Chorus, and - Orchestra. (First performance, under the - composer's direction.) - - 3. Mozart: 'Davidde Penitente,' Cantata for Soli, Chorus, and - Orchestra. - -A few days later Brahms left Vienna to fulfil a group of engagements in -Leipzig, a circumstance which in itself affords some indication of the -rapid strides by which his career had lately been advancing towards the -full sunshine of success that was to flood the latter portion of his -path through life. - -The relations between Brahms and the city which owed its brilliant -reputation as a musical centre to Mendelssohn's influence had been at no -time really sympathetic. The attitude of expectant toleration that had -been more or less adopted towards him by both its extreme parties after -his first visit in 1853 had resulted on the one hand from Schumann's -essay, and on the other, from the confidence felt by the Weimarites and -expressed by Liszt that his 'new paths' must eventually bring him into -close touch with themselves. Gradually, however, it, became clear how -mistaken was the belief that the young musician would drift towards -acceptance of the extreme new tendencies, whilst the originality of his -musical thoughts and of his manner of expressing them was abhorrent to -the inflexible conservatism that had come to represent the traditions of -the Gewandhaus. If, moreover, there is every reason to surmise that -Mendelssohn himself had no hearty appreciation of Schumann's genius, it -is equally probable that neither Rietz, who conducted the Gewandhaus -concerts from 1848 to 1860, nor Reinecke, who succeeded him, was in very -warm sympathy with that of Brahms, and the predilections of the public -followed those of their accredited guides. - -Brahms' works were, it is true, generally given at the orchestral or -chamber concerts of the Gewandhaus soon after publication, but, -excepting the Triumphlied, with its special appeal to the patriotic -sentiment of the great German people, they met with but scanty response -from an audience little accustomed to the exertion of trying to follow -the expression of a new and original artistic individuality. That -Reinecke was by no means an ideal conductor of them naturally resulted -from the fact that by training, by conviction, and by practice, he was -attached to a rigidly formal school of modern musical thought, and it -can surprise no one that he should have been unable entirely to realize -the deeper and richer utterances of Schumann's young prophet. Brahms' -chamber music fared differently in the hands of David, who was almost -alone amongst the authorities of the Gewandhaus in his sympathy for the -composer's genius. To these considerations it must be added that not -only the pianist, but the composer Rubinstein, had, as we indicated in -an early chapter, an enthusiastic following amongst the typical Leipzig -public who were disposed to resent any claim to recognition that might -threaten to rival that of their favourite. - -In spite, however, of the fact that Brahms was no party man, in Leipzig, -as in almost every other city where his music was heard, it struck a -root, imperceptible at first, but growing deeper and stronger and more -extended with every year that went by. The attention bestowed on it by -Brendel's society has been frequently referred to in these pages; it was -cultivated, also, by Riedel's celebrated choir. A more representative -illustration, however, of a certain mysterious power inherent in Brahms' -works of finding their way sooner or later, and not seldom it is sooner, -to the heart, in spite of their intellectuality, their difficulty, their -reserve, is furnished by the case of two sisters, daughters of the head -of one of the great bookselling houses of Leipzig. The Fräulein Weigand -did not live in a musical 'set,' nor were they personally acquainted -with Brahms or his friends, but not long after their first casual -introduction to his music in the middle of the sixties, when they were -young girls, the appearance of each of his new works had come to be an -event in their lives. 'You from Leipzig!' exclaimed Hermann Levi, with -whom the sisters had a passing acquaintance in the summer of 1871. It -was not until three months before the composer's death that these ladies -had any personal communication with him. Then, hearing of his hopeless -illness, they resolved to address him for the first and last time, and -in January, 1897, they wrote to him telling how they had always loved -his music and followed his career. No one who really knew him will doubt -the pleasure that the letter gave to the dying master. In answer he -sent his photograph with his autograph, 'Johannes Brahms,' and the -inscription, 'To the two sisters as a little token of heart-felt thanks -for their so kind account.' - -Of the professional critics of Leipzig, Bernsdorf of the Signale -remained to the last irreconcilable to Brahms' art; but, on the other -hand, Dörffel of the _Leipziger Nachrichten_ watched the appearance of -his works with profound interest and reviewed them with extreme sympathy -and acumen. There was during the sixties no influential 'Brahms' -community in musical Leipzig, no active 'Brahms' propaganda in the -houses of wealthy amateurs. Such occasional admirers as the composer may -have had in this circle were to be met in the drawing-room of the lady -introduced to the reader in an early chapter as Hedwig Salamon, since -married to the composer Franz von Holstein. At the beginning of the -seventies, however, a few well-known residents were to be found who had -a strong bond of union in their common sympathy with Brahms' genius. Of -these, in addition to the von Holsteins, may be particularly mentioned -Philipp Spitta, now remembered in all parts of the musical world as the -author of the standard Bach Biography, Alfred Volkland, Herr Astor, of -the firm of Rieter-Biedermann, and later on its head, and the -distinguished composer Heinrich von Herzogenberg, who settled in Leipzig -in 1872 on his marriage with Elisabeth von Stockhausen. This lady, -endowed in an extraordinary degree with beauty, goodness, intellectual -and artistic gifts, domestic qualities, and any other imaginable graces -and perfections, soon came to be numbered with her husband amongst the -ardent devotees of Brahms' art. It will be convenient to mention here -also that Theodor Kirchner settled in Leipzig in 1875, the year in which -Spitta accepted a call to Berlin. - -All these circumstances put together seem to explain the master's visit -to Leipzig, where he had made no public appearance since the Gewandhaus -concert of November 26, 1860, when he and Joachim had conducted each -other's Hungarian Concerto and Serenade in A major without success. -Brahms was now to conduct a performance of 'Rinaldo' at a concert of the -University Choral Society at the Gewandhaus on February 3, and the Haydn -Variations, three Hungarian Dances, and the 'Rhapsody' (solo, Frau -Joachim) at the Gewandhaus subscription concert of February 5. His -presence in Leipzig was further welcomed by the performance of the G -minor Pianoforte Quartet at the Gewandhaus chamber concert of February -1, and by the performance of a Brahms programme by the _Allgemeiner -Musikverein_ on January 30. On January 17 one of the string quartets had -been performed at the Gewandhaus concert by David and his party. - -The moment when Brahms stepped on to the Gewandhaus platform, the -acknowledged representative, in at least two domains of musical art, of -the greatest masters who had preceded him, must have been one of quiet -satisfaction to himself if he cast a thought backward to the evening, -more than thirteen years ago, when he had last appeared in the same -hall, and, not for the first time, unsuccessfully sought the suffrages -of the same public. Even now, however, though he was received with the -respect due to a musician of his great standing, he was not to taste the -enjoyment of feeling that he had aroused the enthusiasm, hardly that he -had awakened the sympathy, of his audience. The Gewandhaus public, -rarely demonstrative, preserved its special attitude of coldness and -reserve towards him, and though he may have enjoyed the society of his -personal friends, he was probably glad to find himself back again in the -genial atmosphere of his surroundings in Vienna, where, in spite of the -survival of a hostile attitude in certain organs of the press, his -ground had become practically his own. - -The Haydn Variations were performed in February or March at Breslau -(twice), Aachen and Münster, under the respective conductors of the -subscription concerts, and on March 13 the composer assisted, but with -little success, in the performance of a Brahms programme at an Academy -concert, Munich, under Levi, conducting the new work, and playing the -solo of the D minor Concerto. In spite of Levi's continued efforts the -musical circles of Munich remained indifferent to the master's music. -The Haydn Variations were heard for the first time in London at the -Philharmonic concert of May 24, 1875, under W. G. Cusins. - -The programmes performed at the two 'extra' concerts of the Vienna -Gesellschaft were: On March 2-- - - 1. Schubert: _Kyrie_ and _Credo_ from the Mass in B flat. - (Unpublished; first performance.) - - 2. Schumann: Music to 'Manfred.' - -On March 31--Handel's 'Solomon.' - - 'We can only thank the conductor for bringing this work forward; - the performance was ideal,' says one of the critics in his notice - of the oratorio. - -The last concert of the season, on April 19, presented a varied -programme: - - 1. Haydn: Symphony in E flat major. - - 2. A. Dietrich: Concerto for Violin (Violin, Herr Lauterbach). - - 3. J. Brahms: Schicksalslied. - - 4. J. Rietz: Arioso for Violin with organ accompaniment. - - 5. J. S. Bach: Pastorale for Orchestra from the Christmas - Oratorio. - - 6. Handel: Last Chorus from the first part of 'Solomon.' - -Brahms' leisure was considerably curtailed this summer. Of the numerous -engagements fulfilled by him after the close of the Vienna -concert-season three may be particularly mentioned. He conducted the -Triumphlied at the first concert of the Rhine Festival (Cologne, May -24-27), at the Jubilee anniversary concert of the Basle Choral Society, -and at a concert of the Zürich Music Festival (July), and on each -occasion the great song was received with acclamation. With this work we -may, perhaps, especially associate the honour of the Prussian Ordre pour -le Mérite which was conferred later on the composer by the Emperor -William I. He was elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy of -Arts, Berlin, in the course of the summer. - - 'Brahms is becoming so popular,' writes Billroth on June 2, 'and is - everywhere made so much of, that he could easily become a rich man - with his composition if he could take it lightly. Fortunately this - is not the case.' - -The Triumphlied was performed in the German imperial capital on December -17, 1874, under Stockhausen. It was given under Levi at the great -Bismarck Festival in Munich, and was heard in London at a concert given -in St. James's Hall by George Henschel, December 2, 1880, for the -benefit of the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea. - -The magnificent work is now but seldom performed: partly, no doubt, -because it was composed to celebrate a particular series of events in -history, partly because of the difficulty of securing the large chorus -necessary for its due effect, partly, perhaps, on account of the demands -it makes on the attention of the listener. Whatever be the cause, the -fact itself is to be deeply regretted. The work has sometimes been -criticised as wanting in contrast of mood. Undoubtedly it is, from -beginning to end, a song of passionate exultation which scarcely makes -pause from the first note to the last, and the listener requires time -and repeated hearings to become familiarized with its brilliancy before -he can follow it with pleasure; but it is full of varied features of -interest to lay hearers, and especially to those who will devote a -little time to its study before listening to its performance. To the -musician it appeals as a marvel of polyphonic art, though it contains no -elaborated features of harmonic or contrapuntal learning that might have -been prejudicial to its character as a national strain. It is literally -'a sound of many voices saying Alleluia.' - -The master lodged this summer near Nidelbad, above Rüschlikon on Lake -Zürich. Amongst the friends and acquaintances old and new with whom he -had intercourse were Bargheer, Hegar, G. Eberhard, Gottfried Keller, -Bernhard Hopfer, Professor and Frau Engelmann from Utrecht, and J. V. -Widmann. Brahms made Widmann's acquaintance at this time at the house of -Hermann Götz, and seems to have been immediately attracted by him; -partly, perhaps, because the younger man had the courage of his -opinions, and ventured to oppose him in argument. The acquaintance, -cemented during the three days of the Zürich Festival, grew into an -intimate and lasting friendship, to which the musical world is indebted -for Widmann's well-known and delightful 'Recollections,' already several -times referred to in these pages. - -Hegar mentions[48] that the works which occupied Brahms during his stay -at Rüschlikon were the second set of Liebeslieder, the book of songs, -Lieder and Gesänge, Op. 63, and the Vocal Quartets, Op. 64. It was at -this time, also, that he finally completed the Pianoforte Quartet in C -minor. The songs and quartets were published in the autumn by Peters; -the four Duets for Soprano and Contralto, Op. 61, and the seven Songs -for mixed Chorus, _a capella_, Op. 62, were issued about the same time -by Simrock. The Neue Liebeslieder and the C minor Quartet for Pianoforte -and Strings did not appear till 1875. - -From this time onward Brahms' copyrights were acquired, as each new work -was completed, by Simrock of Berlin, with only four exceptions--Nänie, -Op. 82; six Vocal Quartets, Op. 112; thirteen Canons, Op. 113, which -were bought by Peters of Leipzig; and a Prelude and Fugue for Organ, -published in 1881 as a supplement to the _Musikalisches Wochenblatt_ -without opus number. In future, therefore, we shall mention the -publication, but not the publisher, of the works. Those compositions -which were originally acquired from the composer by Breitkopf and Härtel -were resold by this firm to Simrock later on, and appear, therefore, in -the complete published catalogue of Brahms' works as Simrock's -publications. - -The third and, as it turned out, the last season of Brahms' work as -artistic director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde opened in due -course, and at the two ante-Christmas concerts of the season 1874-75 the -following programmes were performed: On November 8-- - - 1. Rubinstein: Overture to the Opera 'Dimitri Donskoi.' - - 2. Beethoven: Pianoforte Concerto in E flat. (Pianoforte, - Herr Brahms.) - - 3. Brahms: Songs for mixed Chorus, _a capella_, Op. 62-- - (a) Waldesnacht. - (b) 'Dein Herzlein mild.' - (c) Von alten Liebesliedern.' - - 4. Berlioz: 'Harold in Italy.' Symphony in four parts. - -On December 6--Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D major. - -Neither concert seems to have reached the usual high-water mark of -success. Of the first programme the items most heartily appreciated were -the three choral part-songs, which, attractive in themselves and sung to -perfection, were applauded to the echo. Of doubtful wisdom was the -selection of the pianist of the occasion. Brahms, who probably yielded -to the persuasion of his committee, and was, perhaps, guided in his -choice of a concerto by the circumstance of having played Beethoven in E -flat in the spring at Bremen, had, as we have seen, given up regular -pianoforte practice for some years, and it was inevitable that his -performance should be affected by this fact. Berlioz's symphony, which -may have owed its place in the programme to our master's broad view of -his duties as the artistic director of an important society, was not -performed with any great aplomb or heard with particular favour, though -extra time and particular pains had been spent on its rehearsal. - -Beethoven's great Mass, given on December 6, was followed with strained -attention that was rewarded by a good, though, if Brahms' supporters in -the press are to be trusted, not a perfect, performance. - - 'How different are these days from those of the forties,' remarks - one of the critics, 'when many a music lover would rise and leave - the room before the commencement of a work by Beethoven.' - -The String Quartet in A minor was performed for the first time in Vienna -at Hellmesberger's concert of December 3, when the andante and scherzo -met with considerable appreciation. - - 'I have heard the string quartets several times this winter,' - writes Billroth in January, 1875. When we played them in Carlsruhe - as pianoforte duets, we took all the tempi much too fast. Brahms - desires very moderate _tempi_ throughout, as otherwise, owing to - the frequent harmonic changes, the music cannot become clear.... - Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Brahms, in their riper works of the - last period, all have a preference for the andante _tempo_. - - 'If you should infer from all I have said that I am much with - Brahms, you would be mightily mistaken. I have only seen him twice - during the whole winter.... We correspond, however; he is pleased - when I write to him about his things.' - -The composer was plunged in his own special work, and would allow -neither private nor public calls to occupy his attention, though he made -an exception in favour of Bernhard Scholz's invitation to pay an -artistic visit to Breslau at the close of the year. His doings during -the next few months afford but little material to chronicle, and we have -to record only the last four Gesellschaft programmes given under his -direction, and to lay special stress upon the extraordinary scene of -enthusiasm that followed the performance of the German Requiem on -February 28, 1875. The rendering of the work on this occasion was one of -those, rarely occurring, which seem to hold the audience spellbound by a -magnetic sympathy with the music. It brought with it in some mysterious -way the sudden flash of revelation. The whole audience, as it were, knew -Brahms that day, and most of what was left to be conquered, that was -worth conquering, in the musical opinion of Vienna was finally captured. -The phenomenal demonstration, joined in by musicians of all schools, -Wagnerians not excepted, that occurred on the termination of the great -work, noteworthy from its contrast with that earlier one of 1867 which -followed the performance of the first three choruses, was the more -striking since Wagner had conducted some excerpts from the 'Ring' in the -same hall a few days previously, and had been the recipient of a similar -ovation. - - _January 10, 1875_: - - 1. Mendelssohn: Overture to the Opera 'Camacho's Marriage.' - - 2. Joachim: Hungarian Concerto. (Violin, Herr Joachim.) - - 3. Brahms: Rhapsody. (Solo, Frau Joachim.) - - 4. Schumann: Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra. (Herr Joachim.) - - 5. J. S. Bach: Whitsuntide Cantata, 'O ewiges Feuer,' for Soli, - Chorus, Orchestra, and Organ. - - _February 28_: - - 1. J. S. Bach: Prelude for Organ in E flat, arranged for Orchestra - by Bernhard Scholz. - - 2. Mozart: Aria from 'Davidde penitente.' - - 3. Brahms: A German Requiem. - - _Good Friday, March 23_: - - J. S. Bach: Passion Music (St. Matthew). - - _April 18_: - - Max Bruch: Odysseus. - -At the close of the season Brahms laid down his conductor's bâton to -make room for the return of Herbeck, whose former services, especially -in the formation of an independent orchestra, had laid the society under -a debt of gratitude, and who, unable to endure the annoyances incidental -to his position as capellmeister of the opera, resigned the post. Brahms -continued his association with the Gesellschaft as a member of the -committee, taking great interest in its councils, and exercising -influence on the concert-programmes and the appointment of professors to -the conservatoire. Each year that went by added to the warmth of the -esteem with which he was personally regarded and to the deference shown -to his judgment by the members of the society, who were all proud of -this link of association with him. - -Writing in May to his stepmother from idyllic summer quarters, he says: - - 'DEAR MOTHER, - - 'I will let you know in haste, that I am living quite delightfully - at Zigelhausen near Heidelberg. Thank you also for the socks you - have again knitted for me.... I am not leaving Vienna, I have only - given up my appointment. You do not know the circumstances, and it - would be too prolix to tell you why. I am, however, remaining - there--and gladly. Write to me if you want money now, or later when - the holidays come off!... - - 'Affectionately Your JOHANNES.' - - 'I must tell you that people are very often surprised at my knitted - socks, and that I am taken such good care of!'[49] - - 'Brahms has had very interesting programmes. Unfortunately we have - lost him and Dessoff (Philharmonic) as conductors. Both have been - pushed out, and both pushed out by Herbeck,' writes Billroth in the - month of June. - -Brahms invited Dietrich to visit him at Zigelhausen. - - 'I saw his new works, but cannot now be quite sure which they - were,' says Dietrich in his 'Recollections.' - -We may confidently conjecture that chief amongst them must have been the -first symphony, upon the completion of which Brahms was at this time -concentrating his attention, and it is probable that he also showed the -sketches of the second symphony to his old friend. - -It was this year that Brahms consented to become a member for the music -section of a commission for the awarding of certain gratuities granted -annually by the Austrian Government to poor artists of talent who have -produced promising works. Three members appointed by the Minister of -Education for each of three sections--poetry, music, and the plastic -arts--examine the applications and work sent, and judge between them. -The fund was established in 1863, and the original adjudicators in the -music section were Hanslick, Herbeck, and Essen. Brahms now replaced -Essen, and a little later Goldmark succeeded Herbeck. The compositions -were sent in the first place to Hanslick, who generally made a selection -from them for Brahms' inspection, keeping back such as did not fulfil -the required conditions or were hopelessly bad. In the _Neue Freie -Presse_ of June 29, 1897, Hanslick made public a few of the -communications he had received from Brahms on these occasions, the first -of which, dated September, 1875, was as follows: - - 'DEAR FRIEND, - - 'Parcels such as your last are generally so thorny that some kind - preliminary guidance like yours is most welcome and necessary as a - help in finding one's way through. This time, however, things are - not so bad, and seem to me fairly simple. Dvorák and Reinhold - thoroughly deserve your proposal by their performances. In - Lachner's case (blind) well-justified sympathy counts for - something. M. certainly merits some help meanwhile. I mean he ought - to win the money more decidedly next year. N. N. alone appears to - me so undeserving of the gratuity that it might be given uselessly - in his case. Just look again at his small and great sins. They are - the most unmusical in the packet. Alas, if he should progress - further! At all events he should desire and use the money for - instruction and not for a libretto!' - -The Quartet in C minor for pianoforte and strings, published in the -autumn, was produced at Hellmesberger's concert of November 18 by -Brahms, Hellmesberger, Bachrich, and Popper, and was played in Hamburg -on January 3, 1876, by Levin, Böie, Schmall, and Lee. - -This composition must, as the reader is aware,[50] be referred to more -than one period of Brahms' activity, and it can hardly be accepted as a -representative work of either. Standing about midway, as to date of -publication, between his two great series of masterpieces for pianoforte -and strings, if it is to be classed amongst either, it must indubitably -be reckoned with that of the sixties. Internal no less than external -evidence, however, leaves little doubt that it points back to a still -earlier date. The master of the seventies has so far succeeded in -remodelling the work of early youth as to have given to the world in the -quartet an interesting, and, on the whole, a clear, presentment of many -noble musical thoughts, but it can hardly be said that he has effected -its transformation into a homogeneous or apparently spontaneous work of -art. Kalbeck mentions that a memorandum of Brahms assigns the date -1873-74 to the third and fourth movements. This, however, may probably -refer only to their final completion. The second movement (the scherzo), -which undoubtedly belongs to the period of the pianoforte sonata -numbered as Op. 1, is consistently characteristic of the composer at -that date. The first and third movements suggest a transition period. -The character of the ideas of the opening allegro with its impressive, -deeply serious, first subject, and of the andante with its sustained -melodious phrases, seems to give promise of the power which, manifested -in a different mood, was reached in the earlier-published companion -works. Of the finale it must be said that its themes are lacking in -interest and developed mechanically. It may be surmised that the -composer's pruning-knife was freely used in the course of his successive -revisions of the work, and perhaps not only for the purpose of -shortening it, but also for that of thinning out the score. From the -circumstance that this is neither so luxuriant in detail nor so thickly -instrumented as those of the other two pianoforte quartets, the C minor -has, perhaps, the one advantage amongst the three of being the most -readily appreciable at first hearing. It must, however, as the author -conceives, be rated, as a completed work of art, decidedly below its -glorious companions. - -The relative popularity attained by the three pianoforte quartets in -England may be fairly estimated by comparing the numbers of their -respective performances at the Popular Concerts, London. The A major, -introduced in January, 1872, was given ten times up to October, 1900, -inclusive. The G minor, first performed in January, 1874, was given -twenty-six times up to March, 1900. The C minor, first played in -November, 1876, was not heard again until December, 1893. - -[46] Allgeyers, 'Life of Feuerbach.' - -[47] From the article in the _Gegenwart_ already referred to. - -[48] Steiner's 'Johannes Brahms.' - -[49] Reimann's 'Johannes Brahms,' p. 117. - -[50] See Vol. II., pp. 77 and 138. - - - - - CHAPTER XVII - 1876-1878 - - 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--Second Symphony--Vienna - and Leipzig differ as to its merits. - - -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 before an audience which received him -with warm greeting, and gave every possible evidence of appreciation of -his works. Immense applause followed each movement of the concerto, and -at its close, when enthusiasm was at its height, two youthful ladies -advanced to the platform, each bearing a cushion on which a wreath was -placed, one decorated with ribbons of the Austrian colours (black and -yellow), the other with those of Holland (red, white, and blue), which -they smilingly presented to the composer. Brahms, not always inclined to -receive tributes of the kind with urbanity, entered thoroughly into the -happy spirit of this occasion, and showed plainly by his manner of -accepting the compliment his pleasure at the charming way in which it -had been offered. He was the guest during his several days' stay at -Utrecht of Professor and Frau Engelmann, in whose house he at once -became at home, dividing his time between walking, talking, playing with -the children, making music with his hostess, seeing friends, and was in -genial mood throughout the visit. It may be remarked _en passant_ that -Brahms in a companionable frame of mind was not accustomed to let his -friends off easily. His constitution was so robust, his spirit so -active, his interests so numerous, that he liked, and expected others to -like, to sit up talking with vivacity until the small hours of the -morning, and would rise after about five hours' rest as unwearied and -energetic as though he had had what would be for most people a normal -amount of repose. It was a matter of course wherever he stayed that the -means for making a cup of coffee should be left every night at his -disposal for the next morning, and he generally returned from an early -walk at about the hour when the household was beginning to stir. - -After leaving Holland the master took part as conductor and pianist in -concerts at Münster, where he directed the Triumphlied, Mannheim and -Wiesbaden, playing the D minor Concerto on each occasion. He was, of -course, the guest at Münster of Grimm and his wife. At Mannheim he -stayed with his friend the well-known capellmeister Ernst Frank, who in -the course of his career was associated as conductor with the musical -life of Würzburg, Vienna, Mannheim, and Hanover. The Wiesbaden concert -is still vividly remembered by the present Landgraf of Hesse, who, then -a young lad, heard Brahms for the first time on the occasion, and -received an impression which laid the foundation of his enduring -enthusiasm for the master's art. - -Staying in the summer at Sassnitz in the Isle of Rügen, Brahms there -completed his third String Quartet in B flat major, and announced the -work in September to Professor Engelmann, to whom it is dedicated. It -was played in Berlin before a private audience towards the end of -October by the Joachim Quartet party, and by the same artists for the -first time in public at their concert of October 30 in the hall of the -Singakademie, on both occasions from the manuscript. The first concert -performance after publication was that of the Hellmesberger party on -November 30 in Vienna. - -The general remarks offered in the preceding chapter on Brahms' chamber -music for strings are to be applied to the Quartet in B flat major. Of -its particular characteristics we may note the joyousness of the first -movement, and the weird fantastic pathos of the third, in which a -special relation is maintained between the viola and first violin. In -the theme--of distinguished simplicity--and variations, with which the -work closes, we have a concise but beautiful example of the composer's -facility in this form. - -The String Quartet in B flat was the first of the three composed by -Brahms to be heard at the Popular Concerts, London. It was played on -Monday, February 19, and Saturday, March 3, 1877, by Joachim, Ries, -Straus, and Piatti. The A minor was performed on Monday, October 31, -1881, by Straus, Ries, Zerbini, and Piatti, and the C minor on Monday, -December 7, 1855, by Madame Norman-Néruda, Ries, Straus, and Franz -Néruda. These (Op. 51, Nos. 1 and 2) were not immediately repeated. - -The great event of the year 1876 in the career of Brahms was the -appearance of the long looked for symphony. As in the case of the -Schicksalslied and the completed Triumphlied, the composer chose to -produce his work for the first time at Carlsruhe, preferring, maybe, to -test it for his own satisfaction in the comparative privacy of a small -audience before submitting it to the searching ordeal of performance in -either of the great musical centres of the Continent. The musical life -of Carlsruhe had suffered sadly by the departure of Levi in 1872, and it -was not until the appointment of Dessoff to the post of court -capellmeister, on his resignation of his duties in Vienna in 1875, that -the city began to regain some of its former artistic prestige. The -performance on November 4, 1876, from the manuscript, of Brahms' first -Symphony by the grand ducal orchestra under Dessoff, in the composer's -presence, was a musical event that revived the recollections of a -brilliant past, and added a new and abiding distinction to the artistic -traditions of the small capital. - -The work was heard a few days later in Mannheim, and on the 15th of the -month in Munich; on both occasions under the composer's direction. Four -other performances from the manuscript quickly followed--in Vienna -(Gesellschaft), December 17, in Leipzig, January 18, and Breslau, -January 23, 1877, in each case under the composer, and in Cambridge, -March 8, 1877, under Joachim's direction. - -The Symphony in C minor, whose appearance marks the period of Brahms' -achievement in the highest domain of absolute music, and the last that -remained to him for conquest, is in the first place remarkable from the -fact that it cannot properly be ranged beside the works in the same form -produced by either of the two masters who were, chronologically -speaking, his immediate predecessors. By its accomplishment, no less -than by its aim, it must be regarded as the immediate successor to the -symphonies of Beethoven in the same sense as these were the direct -descendants of the symphonies of Mozart and Haydn, and it establishes -Brahms' right to be accepted in its own domain as the heir, _par -excellence_, of one and all of these masters. This alone were much. -Still more important, however, is the fact that our composer has known -how to graft upon the symphony form inherited from Beethoven, Mozart, -and Haydn, the giant stock of Bach's learning and resource, studied and -absorbed by him until they had become a part of his own artistic -individuality, in such a manner as to revivify it root and branch, and -make it a supple instrument in his hand, not for the mechanical -imitation of what had been done before him, but for the 'highest ideal -musical expression of his own time.'[51] Few who listen with quickened -ears to an adequate performance of the C minor Symphony can be in doubt -that whilst in outward form and manner of construction it may be -regarded as at once the epitome and the latest result of the past -history of classical instrumental art, it is in spirit representative of -its own time and even anticipatory of the future; that it not only -reflects the soul of the musician, poet, and philosopher, but is -suggestive of the higher vision of the prophet. It is this fact, for -those who accept it as a fact, that constitutes the highest significance -of Brahms' first symphony, and lends a real meaning to Bülow's -well-known apophthegm of 'the three B's': Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. - -The shrill, clashing dissonances of the first introduction at once place -the listener in the atmosphere of stern grandeur, passion, mystery, that -surround, not this or that human life, but existence itself, in its -apprehension by human intelligence; and the allegro to which it leads -seems to the present writer to present as near an analogy as art can -show to the processes of nature, built up as it is--first and second -subjects and their treatment--from a few notes; from what one of the -Vienna critics called 'mere twigs of thematic material'; from germs -which are produced and reproduced, are transformed and reformed, and -developed into a great organic whole instinct with noble, living melody. -The solemnly fervent andante sostenuto, the graceful, innocent -allegretto with its sufficiently contrasted trio, afford the mind the -refreshment of change of tone after the stormy splendour of the first -movement; but the note of tragedy is resumed with the first sounds of -the wonderful adagio that precedes, and essentially contains, the -allegro of the fourth movement. Here, for some twenty-eight bars, the -tension of feeling increases till destiny itself seems to be held in -suspense; then, with the resolution of a chromatic chord, the horn -sounds the unexpected major third of the key in a six-four of the tonic -triad, and, continuing its strange, passionate cry, gradually disperses -the mists of doubt and apprehension that have held the hearer as in a -thrall, and carries him forward to the sublimity of joy that dwells in -the final allegro. - - 'The last movement of your C minor Symphony,' wrote Billroth to - Brahms in 1890, fourteen years after its first performance, 'has - again lately excited me fearfully. Of what avail is the perfect, - clear beauty of the principal subject in its thematically complete - form? The horn returns at length with its romantic, impassioned cry - as in the introduction, and all palpitates with longing, rapture - and supersensuous exaltation and bliss.' - -These words were not written by a fantastic dreamer, but by one of the -most renowned scientific and practical surgeons and busiest men of his -time, and in using them he did not employ a mere rhetorical phrase. The -quality of imagination which speaks through Brahms' first symphony is -akin to that of the early Sonata in F minor, though it is expressed in -the later work with the help of more than twenty years additional study -and experience. It is that of a seer of visions, and seems to culminate, -in the passage to which Billroth alluded, in an ecstasy of wonder and -joy. Brahms undoubtedly rose to the full height of his great powers in -this first symphony, which remains unsurpassed in workmanship and -sustained loftiness of idea, as well as in regard to the range of -emotion to which it appeals. - -It goes without saying that the supposed merits and demerits of the work -became the subject of heated argument between the partisans and -antagonists of the composer's art, the particulars of which would -scarcely prove interesting to readers of the present day. In giving some -account of the first impressions made by the symphony, we shall quote -from those notices only which, whilst they are in themselves not without -value, appear to have been written in a candid spirit, and do not -offensively betray the influence of party bias. The reputation attaching -to Hanslick's name, and the moderation of his style, seem to make it -necessary to include something from his report, though he was avowedly a -stanch admirer of Brahms' music, and had little liking for that of the -New-German school. To balance this, we shall give a few sentences from -the _Wiener Zeitung_, a journal to which, as the reader may remember, no -suspicion can attach of handling our master's works with an excess of -cordiality. It is necessary to explain, for the benefit of such readers -as are not familiar with Brahms' large works, that the references to -Beethoven's ninth symphony occurring in some of the press notices are -occasioned by what has sometimes been described as Brahms' intentional -allusion, in the principal theme of his finale, to Beethoven's setting -of Schiller's 'Ode to Joy' in the last movement of the great 'ninth.' -The so-called allusion consists, not so much in a similarity of melody -in Brahms' theme to that of Beethoven, as in its being written in the -same hymn-form and harmonized as plainly as possible. There is no doubt -whatever that everyone who listens to Brahms' first symphony thinks -immediately, on the entrance of the final allegro, of Beethoven's ninth. -The association passes with the conclusion of the subject; Brahms' -movement develops on its own lines, which do not resemble those of -Beethoven. - - 'In this work,' says Hanslick (_Neue Freie Presse_), 'Brahms' close - affinity with Beethoven must become clear to every musician who has - not already perceived it. The new symphony displays an energy of - will, a logic of musical thought, a greatness of structural power - and a mastery of technique such as are possessed by no other living - composer. It would be a sorry mistake to attempt to criticize a - work so serious and difficult of comprehension immediately after - hearing it for the first time. Various listeners may have found the - music more or less clear, more or less sympathetic; the one thing - that we may speak of as a simple fact, accepted alike by friend and - foe, is that no composer has yet approached so nearly to the great - works of Beethoven as Brahms in the finale of the C minor - Symphony.' - - '... Brahms was an important personality, one to be treated most - seriously before he wrote the symphony,' we read in the _Wiener - Zeitung_; 'to our thinking his position remains just as it was. The - strong moral earnestness, the depth and purity of his conception of - the world and of life, and the intellectuality, which have always - obtained for the esteem of the noble-minded and withheld from him - the favour of the masses, are to be found again in this work. None - the less, however, are the shadows there which but too easily - accompany such lights; the want of inspiriting fancy, the absence - of sensuous charm, and a sullen asceticism almost amounting to - insipidity. His musical language has lost nothing of its mysterious - reticence, of its close conciseness, of the elevation that on the - whole distinguishes it, nor has it gained in facility, clearness, - or comprehensibility.... So there is nothing that can be admired - without reserve, until with sure step, with strong, proud gait that - reminds one of the majesty of Beethoven, the finale strides out. - After a bar or two of deeply sorrowful complaint, it braces itself - to a turbulent pizzicato of the strings, as a man who would get rid - of pain by nerving himself to action.... With the entry of the - chorale, the hearer experiences a sensation of brightness as at - the rising of the sun after a night of sorrow. The last mists - disappear as before the breaking light, and the movement closes in - strong, healthy gladness.... Here the arts of music and poetry - mingle indissolubly, and the musical, cannot be separated from the - poetic, impression. Here is a truly great artistic achievement, the - value of which is but slightly prejudiced by the consideration that - the "joy" theme has an unmistakable resemblance as of son to father - to that of the "ninth" symphony. This movement is worthy of the man - who composed the German Requiem.' - -Dörffel, of the _Leipziger Nachrichten_, wrote: - - 'The interest of all present was centred on the new symphony, - which, on the whole, justified the great expectations with which it - had been awaited. Its effect on the audience was the most intense - that has been produced by any new symphony within our remembrance. - Schumann in his time did not attain such.... The composition is to - be viewed and measured from the standpoint of Beethoven's ninth, - and of Schumann's second, symphony. The aim of the three works is - the same. To reach it, Brahms, well-equipped and daring spirit as - he is, goes his own way. He is great in attack as his two - predecessors, and has the same wide vision over the domain of - spiritual-human existence.... As regards uninterrupted energy of - creative power, we would give the palm to the first movement. The - second, with its fervour and longing, accords with it. To the third - we should gladly have listened longer. It supplied a counterpoise - of sentiment to what had gone before which had not been maintained - long enough when the movement closed. Of the finale we would almost - venture to surmise that it gave the composer the most trouble. Here - he relinquishes his independence, and flies to Beethoven in order - to get new force for his climax. We do not regard the resort to - Beethoven as accidental, but believe the composer to have been well - aware of it. He came, however, to one over whom he could not - prevail. - - 'A long pause followed the symphony; one, however, that was not - long enough in some measure to quiet the exaltation of mind - produced by the work. The songs and variations which followed, and - which we should have welcomed at another time, were almost tiresome - to us. Let the symphony be repeated soon, and, if possible, without - other music.'[52] - -Louis Ehlert says of the symphony: - - 'Brahms has a wide-reaching and speculative brain, and is a mixture - of the musician of the good old times who heard many voices - sounding together within him, whose very cradle cover was - embroidered with a contrapuntal pentagram, and of the man of the - present day with his variously cultured intellect.... What - distinguishes his music from that of all his contemporaries is the - mysterious apparition within it of another world--its gentle, - pathetic tapping at the heart. - - 'The first movement of the symphony is, perhaps, the most - artistically important of the work.... An inexorable causality - proceeds from bar to bar, stayed by no illusion, and softened only - by the distant light of a few solitary stars. In the introduction - and finale the enigmatical sphinx seems to call to us, "That which - ascends from me, mounting upwards to battle and to life, sinks back - again within me. Of all life I, the eternal riddle, am the - beginning and the end."' - -It will be evident from what has been said that whatever the impression -to be derived from familiar acquaintance with the symphony, immediate -enthusiasm could hardly have been anticipated from any large general -public--least of all by Brahms himself; but the presence at most of -these first performances of devotees specially qualified for -apprehending something of the significance of the work generally secured -for it more than a mere _succès d'estime_. The listeners of Munich were -the least appreciative. Those of Carlsruhe, Mannheim and Breslau were -friendly. At Vienna certain favoured friends were privileged to listen -to a private performance of the symphony by Brahms and Ignaz Brüll, in -the composer's arrangement as a pianoforte duet, at the pianoforte house -of his friend Herr Hoffabrikant Friedrich Ehrbar, and went to the -concert, therefore, with minds partially prepared for what they were to -hear. At Leipzig a note of enthusiasm was perceptible at the crowded -public rehearsal which preceded the Gewandhaus concert, owing partly to -the fact that Brahms' Leipzig adherents had been strongly reinforced by -the advent of friends from outside, some of whom added warmth and -prestige to the occasion by their mere presence. The feeling for our -master's art which, as we have seen, had been slowly growing amongst a -number of Leipzig residents who belonged to no musical 'set,' will have -been expressed with added zest and enjoyment when it was found that Frau -Schumann and Joachim and Stockhausen had come to hear the symphony, -whilst to the support of the von Herzogenbergs, von Holsteins, Theodor -Kirchner, and other resident or lately resident friends, was added that -of the Grimms from Münster, Dr. Hermann Deiters from Bonn, Professor and -Frau Engelmann from Utrecht, Simrock from Berlin, and many other -distinguished guests. Enthusiasm is contagious, and already at the -rehearsal a success was ensured for the work, though perhaps it was not -very warmly helped by the official patrons of the Gewandhaus. - - 'A regular Brahms party meeting had been organized,' says Bernsdorf - in the _Signale_, now as ever inveterate in his own party bias, in - which a fairly strong contingent from outside was associated with - the resident admirers and champions of the composer. It is - therefore a matter of course that the consumption of enthusiasm was - enormous, and that the success of the symphony was one exceptional - in the annals of the Gewandhaus.' - -A large party of friends assembled at supper at the Hôtel Hauffe after -the concert. Brahms' health was proposed in genial fashion by -Stockhausen. 'Hab' ich tausendmal geschworen,'[53] he suddenly sang out, -starting to his feet and raising his glass. Needless to say that the -toast, which was the more effective from the sense of victory filling -the minds of those who had assisted at the evening's triumph, was -honoured with the utmost enthusiasm. - -The performance of the symphony by the Cambridge University Musical -Society was given under special circumstances. Early in the year the -university offered the master an honorary degree, acceptance of which -would have involved him in a visit to England, since, by one of the -university statutes, its degrees may not be conferred _in absentia_. -Brahms was not asked to write a new work for the occasion, a request he -would properly have resented, but was merely invited to visit Cambridge -for the purpose of receiving the degree, and was so far gratified by the -compliment as to hesitate about his answer. Perhaps his mere reluctance -to decline the invitation in spite of his dread of English customs and -his ignorance of the language, may be accepted as stronger testimony of -appreciation than might have been implied in the effusive acceptance of -many another man. It may be doubted whether he would in any case have -prevailed upon himself to undertake the journey; an indiscreet -advertisement, however, inserted in _The Times_ by the Crystal Palace -directors, who had heard a rumour of his possible visit, that if he -should come he would be asked to conduct one of their Saturday concerts, -immediately decided him to decline the University's proffered honour. He -acknowledged the invitation by entrusting the MS. score and parts of the -symphony to the care of Joachim, who was about starting on his yearly -visit to England, for performance at Cambridge. - -The programme of March 8 was as follows: - - 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: Elegiac Overture (in memory of H. Kleist). - - PART II. - - Brahms: Symphony in C minor. - -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 March 8, were given under his direction; -the remainder of the programme was under that of the society's -conductor, C. Villiers Stanford. - -The concert attracted a great audience, which included prominent -musicians from various parts of the United Kingdom. The impression -created by the symphony was profound, and, following that of the German -Requiem and of the great chamber music compositions and songs which had -now for some years been finding their way to the hearts of music lovers -in this country, formed, as Stanford says, 'an imperishable keystone to -Brahms' fame amongst Britons.'[54] The new work was performed in London -a few weeks later at the Philharmonic concert of April 16, under W. G. -Cusins. - -Probably Brahms' Vienna friends and admirers little dreamed how near -they had been at this time to losing their favourite. The position of -municipal music-director at Düsseldorf was pressed on his acceptance in -the autumn of 1876, and he was sufficiently tempted by it to be -characteristically unable to decide on a negative answer. He was, -indeed, so long in coming to a final resolution, that the Düsseldorf -authorities had every reason to feel persuaded they had secured him for -the opening of the year 1877. At the last moment he wrote: 'I cannot -make up my mind to it.' This seems to have been the last occasion on -which he entertained the idea of binding himself to the performance of -fixed duties, though it has been surmised that he might have consented -at a somewhat later period to associate himself with a high class for -composition at the conservatoire of the Vienna 'Gesellschaft,' if he had -been approached by the principal, Josef Hellmesberger, on the subject of -forming one. - -Certain incidents belonging to the autumn of 1877, related by Widmann in -his Brahms' 'Recollections,' show that at this time, when the master had -successfully proved his powers in every form of composition for the -concert-room, the old desire to try his hand at writing for the stage -revived within him. Brahms and Widmann met at Mannheim, and were present -at the production, on September 30, of Götz's unfinished opera, -'Francesca di Rimini,' under Frank. In the course of a long -_tête-à-tête_, held on their return to their hotel after the -performance, Brahms clearly explained his views on the subject of opera -texts, 'letting it be seen,' says Widmann, 'that any resolution he might -have formed against composing an opera might give way were he to find -himself in possession of a libretto really to his liking.' - -The convictions professed on this occasion by the composer may be traced -to an attitude of mind similar to that to which we referred on recording -his conversation with Bulthaupt. Strange as it may appear, they have a -fundamental kinship with those which led Wagner to embark on his career -as a musico-dramatic reformer, though the methods proposed by Brahms -were not only much more drastic than those pursued by Wagner, but ran, -as Widmann has observed, directly in the opposite direction from that -taken by the development of modern art as represented by this master. - - 'The composition of music to the entire drama seemed to Brahms - unnecessary and even mischievous. Only the culminating points and - those parts of the action should be set for which music would be an - inherently suitable medium of expression. The librettist would thus - gain space and freedom for the dramatic development of his subject, - whilst the composer would be at liberty to devote himself solely to - the purposes of his art which would be best served if he were able - to concentrate his energies on a definite situation such as a - jubilant _ensemble_.' - -From this it would appear that the incongruity essential to the very -existence of what is generally understood as Opera, as distinct from the -early German Singspiel, was so strongly felt by Brahms as to seem to him -incompatible with dramatic truth, and to be absolutely prohibitive in -his own case of the dramatic exercise of his art. The matter is, -however, susceptible of another explanation. - -It is clear that Brahms, when contemplating the composition of an opera, -was bound by the necessities of his position to seek the attainment of -dramatic truth in a direction other than that in which Wagner had led -the way with such triumphant result. Every circumstance in the careers -of the two men, and not least the representative position achieved by -each in his own sphere, precluded the possibility that Brahms should run -the risk of appearing to seek to emulate Wagner on his own ground, -though it would be difficult to believe that he at no time cast longing -thoughts towards the logical, consistent, rich means of artistic effect -offered by the Melos.[55] No one can doubt that if he had been in a -position, and had chosen, to use it, he would have employed it in his -own way and for his own original purposes and effects. The skill with -which he might have handled it in opera is to some small extent -indicated in the Rhapsody (Goethe's 'Harzreise'), where the method of -the two first sections is very much that of the Melos, whilst the -prayer, affording an opportunity 'inherently suitable for musical -expression,' reverts to the rhythmical melody of musical tradition. That -Brahms had a respect almost amounting to veneration for Wagner's powers -is matter of common knowledge. Though he was never present at a Bayreuth -performance, he had studied Wagner's scores exhaustively, and, in the -sense of his intimate acquaintance with them, was accustomed to call -himself the 'best of all Wagnerians.' An anecdote related by Richard -Heuberger,[56] to whom the master gave informal instruction in -composition for a time from early in 1878, is highly illustrative in -this connection. Heuberger says: - - '... Continuing his corrections, Brahms did not confine himself to - remarks on the composition itself, but considered the handwriting - also worthy of his notice. He pointed out that I had not placed - crotchet under crotchet, and that this impaired the legibility of - the manuscript; he advised me to be particular to slur the groups - of notes with exactness.... "Look here," he said, fetching from the - next room Wagner's autograph score of "Tannhäuser," which he opened - at the long B major movement of the second act; "Wagner has taken - pains to place each of the five sharps exactly in its place on - _every_ line of _every_ page, and in spite of all this precision - the writing is easy and flowing. If _such_ a man can write so - neatly, you must do so too." He turned over the entire movement and - pointed reproachfully to almost every sharp. I felt continually - smaller, especially as Brahms talked himself into a kind of - didactic wrathfulness. I was struck completely dumb, however, when, - on my remarking that Wagner must be held chiefly responsible for - the confusion prevailing in the heads of us young people, Brahms - cried as though he had been stung, "_Nonsense_; the _misunderstood_ - Wagner has done it. Those understand _nothing_ of the real Wagner - who are led astray by him. Wagner's is one of the clearest heads - that ever existed in the world!"' - -That Brahms was aware that the resolution to compose an opera would -place him in a net of difficulties that might practically be summed up -in the one word 'Wagner' is no mere conjecture. Fräulein Anna Ettlinger, -an intimate friend of Levi and Allgeyer, who knew Brahms well both at -Carlsruhe and Munich, relates in an article on Levi, that Brahms -answered a question put to him in Munich in the course of the seventies, -as to why he had written no opera by saying, 'Beside Wagner it is -impossible.' It may fairly be concluded that Brahms, in the late -seventies, merely 'coquetted,' as Widmann expresses it, with the idea of -composing for the stage, though no doubt with considerable regret.[57] - -It cannot be said that the subjects he proposed to Widmann appear happy, -but his suggestions must not be taken too seriously. - - 'He recommended to me Gozzi's magical farces and fabled comedies, - especially "King Stag" and "The Ravens." He was also interested in - "The Open Secret," and preferred Gozzi's lighter arrangement of the - piece to Calderon's more formal original.... After reading "King - Stag" carefully through several times, I was not only seized with a - certain hopelessness as to whether I could ever succeed in making a - rational, poetical opera text out of this mad farce, but disturbed - by the anxiety as to whether, even if it were successfully adapted, - it could really interest a modern theatre-going public.... I found - myself continually thinking that such an opera, even though Brahms - had composed for it the most beautiful, glorious music, as would - undoubtedly have been the case, could not be regarded as - essentially anything else than a sort of second "Zauberflöte," and - thus as a retrogression in the development of operatic art.'[58] - -Nothing, in short, resulted from the talk between Brahms and Widmann, -and the suitable libretto was, as we know, never found. This is, -perhaps, little to be regretted. Not, indeed, because the composer -lacked the dramatic instinct necessary for the successful composition of -opera. No one who has heard him quote a few lines from a classical play -can doubt that he possessed this qualification in an eminent degree, and -his sensitiveness to dramatic effect was matter for frequent comment by -those who accompanied him to the theatre. It is, however, difficult to -imagine that Brahms could have been content to compose music to a purely -comic text, or, indeed, to one that did not contain elements of deep -pathos; whilst a quasi-comic opera, in which allegory lay hidden, must -almost certainly have been found, as Widmann perceived, unsuitable to -modern taste. On the other hand, Brahms' constitutional shyness and -reticence, fostered through long years of varied experience until they -became invincible, must, we believe, have proved obstacles to the -successful completion of a serious opera in any practicable meaning of -the word, even if they had allowed him to attempt one. They are more or -less traceable in the libretto difficulty; in his suggestion of 'King -Stag,' which he recommended especially on account of its fun, -'accompanied throughout by the most pathetic earnestness'; in other -words, because the earnestness is covered by the fun. It is difficult to -imagine the man who habitually veiled the tenderness of his nature -behind a playful saying or an abrupt manner, who did not allow himself -to inquire about the possibilities of passionate feeling that might lie -dormant within him, coming out of his reserve to use the strong play of -emotion as the immediate and capital medium for his effects. The energy -of feeling, the deeply pathetic beauty which vitalize the master's -purely instrumental music, are surrounded and protected by an -intellectual atmosphere which, on a first hearing of his larger works, -sometimes seems to amount to austerity, and to repel rather than -attract. His love-songs--those of them which are not folk-songs--are for -the most part dreamings of an ideal, and not the ideal of a man who -could lay his heart bare on the theatre boards. Not wholly fanciful is -the association in which Brahms, in a letter to Widmann, jokingly placed -his two life renunciations, of the composition of an opera and of -marriage. The extracts from favourite authors entered by Johannes during -the early fifties in the little manuscript books described by Kalbeck, -the passages found in 'The young Kreisler's treasure-chest, March, -1854,' remain significant not only of the young musician of twenty, but -also of the master of forty, fifty, sixty years, and the quotation from -Friedrich v. Sallet might probably stand as the true history of Brahms' -inner life. - - 'One generally finds the highest degree of what is called - _openness_ in the most frivolous and thoughtless persons; of that - which is called _reserve_, in the deepest, richest and truest - minds. And, indeed, I am glad to be communicative, and like a full, - free flow of conversation during the clinking of cups; whatever - noble thought may have occurred to me should not have been gained - for myself, but, if possible, for the world. Nevertheless, there is - in the mind a holy of holies. I would not bring that forth which - shines brightly there, hidden away in the inmost recess, to glimmer - vainly and childishly in the universal light of day. Let it remain - there in sacred night. I dare not even tell it in barren words to - my friend, however noble, not even to my beloved (if I had one). To - what purpose? I might use one single misleading expression, the - other might misunderstand one single expression, and my divine - image, reflected from a concave mirror, become a distortion, common - or trivial, or even deformed and ridiculous.... To analyze and - describe the sacred within us is a shameless desecration. If the - other has a spiritual eye that is worthy to perceive, he may - quietly await one of those blissful moments when the curtain of - mists breaks and a swift, comprehensive glance into the sanctuary - of the temple is allowed to the worthy one, and in such moments is - celebrated the high festival of friendship as of love. For myself, - I dare reveal nothing of it in words save in poetry. There I may do - so, for it happens in some divine way that is incomprehensible to - me....'[59] - -We have henceforth, therefore, only to observe the unwearied energy with -which Brahms, during the succeeding years, added one work after another -to the list of his compositions in each and every branch of serious -music for the chamber and the concert-room: songs, vocal duets, choral -works and instrumental solos accompanied and unaccompanied, concerted -music for solo instruments, symphonies. The publications of the year -1877 were the Symphony and the four sets of Songs, Op. 69, 70, 71, 72, -twenty-four songs in all, some of the texts of which are by Carl -Candidus, Carl Lemke, Gottfried Keller, etc., and others imitations of -folk-songs of various nationalities. Dr. Deiters says of them in his -'Johannes Brahms': - - 'As it seems to us, the composer identifies himself here more and - more closely with classical form and achieves ever purer refinement - of his material. Turn where one will (we mention for instance "Des - Liebsten Schwur" from Op. 69) there can be no hesitation in - counting these songs with the best to be found of their kind. Again - we are constantly reminded of Franz Schubert, whose wealth of - melody is revived, whilst in conciseness of construction, in - conscious mastery of form, he is here greatly surpassed.' - -Heuberger gives a pleasant glimpse of Brahms co-operating in a festival -performance arranged for December, 1877, by the Academic Choral Society -of Vienna in honour of its distinguished honorary member, Billroth. -Invited by Heuberger, Dr. Eyrich's successor as conductor of the -society, to take part in the proceedings, the master at once promised -to conduct two of his choruses, 'Ich schnell mein Horn' and 'Lied vom -Herrn von Falkenstein,' as arranged for the occasion for men's voices by -Heuberger, and, on his appearance at the last rehearsal to go through -the well-prepared compositions, was greeted with a hurricane of welcome -by the over two hundred students who formed the choir. At the festival -performance next day - - 'Brahms joined in the students' songs as lustily as his rough, - broken voice would permit. He had, as he told me, a very good - soprano voice as a boy, but had spoilt it by singing too much - during its mutation period.' - -Of another occasion, a party at Billroth's house, when choruses by -Brahms and Goldmark were to be performed, Heuberger relates: - - 'By Brahms' suggestion I directed the preliminary practices which - took place at the houses of some of his friends, the Osers and - others. The day before the party Brahms and Goldmark came to the - last rehearsal. The so-reputed cross-grained Brahms now conducted - his "Marienlieder" and other works without much alteration of the - nuances that I had practised. Goldmark, on the contrary, who was as - much liked in private life as he was dreaded at rehearsal, studied - indefatigably on and on.'[60] - -The publication of Brahms' first Symphony in C minor was almost -immediately followed by the appearance of a second one in D major, -completed during the summer months of 1877 at the beloved Lichtenthal. -It was, like the earlier work, played by Brahms and Brüll before an -invited circle at Ehrbar's as a pianoforte duet (composer's arrangement) -a few days before the date, December 11, first announced for its -performance at a Vienna Philharmonic concert. Cause arose at the last -moment for the postponement of this event, and the work was given for -the first time in public at the succeeding Philharmonic concert of -December 30, under Hans Richter's direction. The second performance, -conducted by Brahms, took place at the Leipzig Gewandhaus on January 10, -1878. - -The early fortunes of this second symphony were singularly various, and -contrasted strangely with those of its predecessor. In Vienna, where the -first had been received with reserve, the second achieved an instant, -almost popular, success. It was warmly received by the audience, and was -discussed by nearly all sections of the press in terms of cordial -approval. It was of a 'more attractive character,' more 'understandable' -than its predecessor. It was to be preferred, too, inasmuch as the -composer had not this time 'entered the lists with Beethoven.' The third -movement was especially praised for its 'original melody and rhythms.' -The work might be appropriately termed the 'Vienna Symphony,' reflecting -as it did 'the fresh, healthy life only to be found in beautiful -Vienna.' In Leipzig, on the other hand, the work was little better than -a failure. The impression of the preceding year was felt in the general -applause, emphasized by a thrice-repeated flourish of trumpets and -drums, which greeted the composer's entrance, and the audience -maintained an attitude of polite cordiality throughout the performance -of the symphony, courteously applauding between the movements and -recalling the master at the end; but the enthusiasm of personal friends -was not this time able to kindle any corresponding warmth in the bulk of -the audience, or even to cover the general consciousness of the fact. -The most favourable of the press notices damned the work with faint -praise, and Dörffel, whom we quote here and elsewhere because he alone -of the professional Leipzig critics of the seventies seems to have been -imbued with a sense of Brahms' artistic greatness, showed himself quite -angry from disappointment. - - 'The Viennese,' he wrote, 'are much more easily satisfied than we. - We make quite different demands on Brahms, and require from him - music which is something more than "pretty" and "very pretty" when - he comes before us as a symphonist. Not that we do not wish to hear - him in his complaisant moods, not that we disdain to accept from - him pictures of real life, but we desire always to contemplate his - genius, whether he displays it in a manner of his own, or depends - on that of Beethoven. We have not discovered genius in the new - symphony and should hardly have guessed it to be the work of Brahms - had it been performed anonymously. We should have recognised the - great mastery of form, the extremely skilful handling of the - material, the conspicuous power of construction in short, which it - displays, but should not have described it as pre-eminently - distinguished by inventive power. We should have pronounced the - work to be one worthy of respect, but not counting for much in the - domain of symphony. Perhaps we may be mistaken; if so, the error - should be pardonable, arising as it does from the great - expectations which our reverence for the composer induced us to - form.' - -Possibly Dörffel's expectations had been founded too definitely upon his -admiration of the first symphony, which may have caused him to take for -granted that he would find in the second a reiteration of the exalted -moods of its predecessor. The two works should not, however, be weighed -in the balance one against the other, but should be considered side by -side for the reason that they are not only different, but, as it were, -supplementary. The first partakes of the nature of an epic in so far as -it is conceived on a grand scale and is dominated throughout three of -its four movements by a passionate intensity of feeling which is -occupied only with the sublimities, whether of pain or of joy, and -which, even after the pain has been conquered, seems to touch the joy -theme itself with the pathos of a past tragedy. The second symphony is -an idyll that is chiefly animated by the spirit of pure happiness and -gently tender grace. A second symphony quickly following the first, -which had shown any attempt to emulate that great work on its own -ground, must of necessity have been doomed to result in artistic -failure. The second symphony which the master actually wrote was one -which, whilst it probably satisfied a need of his mind for the -refreshment of change, was the appropriate sequel to its predecessor -both in regard to its calm serenity of mood and to the clear melody of -the thematic material in which the mood is so perfectly expressed. Those -who are inexorable in their demands for 'originality' may, however, be -referred to the 'adagio non troppo,' which, with its melodious phrases -and its beautiful tone effects, its varied rhythms and its mysterious -intention, offers opportunity for the energetic attention even of the -accustomed listener, and is the one movement of the work which can -hardly be at once followed with entire pleasure by the less initiated. - -Meanwhile the first symphony was quickly making its way through Europe. -It was given with enormous success on November 11, 1877, at a concert of -the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin, by the orchestra of the music school -under Joachim, and was very inadequately performed on the 16th of the -same month at a Hamburg Philharmonic concert under von Bernuth. By the -strongly-expressed desire of many musicians of the city, the composer -was invited to conduct a repetition performance at the Philharmonic -concert of January 18, 1878, when the work achieved considerable -success. It was heard the same month in Bremen and Utrecht under Brahms, -in Münster (J. O. Grimm), Dresden (F. Wüllner), and in February for the -second time in Breslau (Scholz), and made its way in the course of a few -seasons to Basle, Zürich, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Hague, Edinburgh, -Glasgow, and New York. - -Brahms now, at the age of forty-four, was, indeed, in the enjoyment of -almost unclouded recognition and success, which could be but little -affected by the lack of enthusiasm of this or that audience. His -position had become the more firmly established from the circumstance -that very few of his works had taken the public by storm. The majority -of them had grown almost imperceptibly into general acceptance by sheer -force of their intrinsic value, of which but a modicum is to be found on -the surface. It is certainly the case that at the outset of his modest -entry on a public career he had gained with a single stroke, once and -for always, the enthusiastic suffrage of some of the princes of his art; -but the voice of Schumann, potent as it was, could be and had been only -of avail to procure him a hearing--appreciation was, by the nature of -things, beyond its control; and though Frau Schumann and Joachim and -Stockhausen untiringly used the influence of their position as best -beloved among the foremost favourites of the public to make a way for -his music, even they could not immediately secure for it enthusiasm. -This it had gradually to gain by the independent means of its indwelling -virtue, the insistency of its appeal, not to the outward seeming, but to -the very heart of things. - -A noteworthy addition was made in the course of the year 1877 to the -ranks of Brahms' most stanch and influential supporters in the person of -Hans von Bülow. Remark has already been made on the change observable in -the early seventies in the attitude of this gifted, witty, whimsical, -uncompromising, true-hearted musician towards Brahms' art. The -publication of the first symphony completed his conversion, and he soon -afterwards began an active propaganda on the master's behalf, to which, -carried on as it was with characteristic vehemence and eccentricity, and -started at the very moment when the great composer was achieving the -highest summit of fame, an entirely fictitious importance has sometimes -been ascribed in regard to its effect upon the outward development of -Brahms' career. That von Bülow during the last ten or twelve years of -his public activity partially devoted his energies to the task of -forcing the master's works upon certain more or less indifferent -audiences, whom he harangued and lectured concerning their lack of -interest, had no bearing on the facts that Brahms' place amongst the -immortals had been assured, by practically general consent, with the -first few performances of the German Requiem, and that by the beginning -of the eighties acceptance of his art had become world-wide. Bülow's new -partisanship, destined to bring in its train distinguished friendships -that were truly prized and reciprocated by the master, was touching from -its sincerity, but is not of essential importance to Brahms' biographer. -It is, however, pleasant to be able to add to the extracts already -quoted from Bülow's writings three which, dated October and November, -1877, mark the beginning of a new epoch in his own career, and in that -of Brahms the commencement of an agreeable and valued personal intimacy. -The paragraphs are to be taken merely as illustrations of Bülow's -changed sentiments, and not as necessarily expressing the personal views -of the present writer. - - 'Only since my acquaintance with the "_tenth_" symphony, alias the - _first_ symphony of Johannes Brahms, that is since six weeks, have - I become so inaccessible and hard towards Bruch pieces and the - like. I do not call it the "_tenth_" in the sense of its relation - to the "_ninth_"....' - - 'I believe it is not without the intelligence of chance that Bach, - Beethoven, and Brahms are in alliteration.' - - 'The imagination of Bach seems, in his clavier works, to be - dominated by the organ, that of Beethoven by the orchestra, that of - Brahms by both.' - -[51] Schumann's essay, 'New Paths.' - -[52] The variations for orchestra on Haydn's theme and six of Brahms' -songs, sung by Henschel, were included in the programme of the concert. - -[53] Goethe's song, 'Unüberwindlich,' set by Brahms and published in -1877 as No. 6 of Op. 72: 'Though a thousand vows I've taken.' - -[54] Article in the _New York Outlook_, July 25, 1903. - -[55] See Vol. I., Appendix No. 1. - -[56] _Die Musik_, in the article referred to in a previous chapter. - -[57] Fräulein Ettlinger informs the author that it was she herself who -put the question to the master and received his answer. For the article -on Levi see 'Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog,' 1902. - -[58] Widmann's 'Brahms Recollections,' p. 38 and following. - -[59] Kalbeck's 'Johannes Brahms,' p. 187 and following. - -[60] _Die Musik_, No. 5 of 1902. - - - - - CHAPTER XVIII - 1878-1881 - - Hamburg Philharmonic Jubilee Festival--Violin Concerto: first - performance by Joachim--Pianoforte Pieces, Op. 76--Sonata for - Pianoforte and Violin--First performances--Brahms at - Crefeld--Rhapsodies for Pianoforte--Heuberger's studies with - Brahms--Second Schumann Festival at Bonn--The two - Overtures--Breslau honorary degree. - - -With the rapidly-increasing appreciation of Brahms' art observable -during the second half of the seventies throughout the entire musical -world, the condition of his private circumstances changed rapidly also. -At the time he completed the second symphony it was very far removed -from that of twelve years back, when he had been obliged, by lack of -ready cash, to purchase the music-paper required for the manuscript of -the Requiem in small instalments. He never deviated from the simple -manner of daily life agreeable to him by nature and habit, but we find -that in the early spring of 1878 he added to the short list of his -personal pleasures one that became to him a source of unfailing delight, -that of a journey to Italy. On this his first visit, made in April, in -Billroth's company, he stayed in Rome, Naples, and Sicily, and returned -subjugated once and for all by the witcheries of the South. Neither of -his Italian tours was associated with a musical purpose; they were -undertaken solely for the refreshment of body and mind by a holiday -ramble amidst beauties of nature and art, to which his temperament made -him peculiarly sensitive, and amongst a people whose _naturel_ was -congenial to him. - - 'I often think of our journey,' writes Billroth on May 7; 'that you - were so charmed with everything doubles my pleasure.' - -The new symphony was included in the Rhine Festival, held this year at -Düsseldorf under Joachim and Tausch. Amongst Joachim's duties was that -of conducting the performance of his friend's work, concerning which we -read in a contemporary journal: - - 'The performance of Brahms' second symphony under Joachim was a - feast such as we have seldom heard. The audience was jubilant after - each movement, and would not be satisfied till the third was - repeated.' - -And again in a final summary: - - 'The most brilliant event of the festival was the performance of - Brahms' symphony.' - -The composer spent the summer at Pörtschach on Lake Wörther in -Carinthia, a spot where, as he writes to Hanslick, 'so many melodies fly -about one must be careful not to tread on them.' In the same letter[61] -he talks playfully to his old friend, who, remaining a bachelor till -past fifty, had lately surprised his acquaintances by marrying a lady -many years his junior, of his intention to compose a new symphony for -the winter, 'that shall sound so gay and charming you will think I have -written it expressly for you, or rather for your young wife.' - -This idea, probably not seriously entertained, was put aside, but the -reflection of the composer's happy mood is to be found in several of the -pianoforte pieces written by him at this time--notably in No. 2 of Op. -76--and in the last movement of the great violin concerto he was -composing for Joachim. - -An event was to take place in the last week of September which no doubt -possessed a peculiar interest for Brahms, though it was not of an -unmixed character: the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the -Philharmonic Society of his native city of Hamburg, which had been -founded in 1828 by a few music-lovers, with W. Grund, a composer and -teacher of the city, as its conductor. The festival was to last five -days, and to include three great orchestral concerts in the Saagebiel -Hall and an excursion up the Elbe to Blankenese. Four symphonies were to -be performed: Haydn in G minor, Beethoven's 'Eroica,' Schumann in C -major, Brahms in D major. Frau Schumann was to play Mozart's Pianoforte -Concerto in D minor; Joachim to perform with Concertmeister Bargheer, -Spohr's Duo Concertante for two violins in B minor. A great assemblage -of musicians was expected, and Brahms had been invited, but at the -beginning of September no one in Hamburg knew whether or not he intended -to be present, and the directors of the festival, finding themselves -very near a predicament, resolved to appeal to Hanslick, who had -received and accepted an invitation, to procure his answer for them. The -letter which Hanslick immediately wrote to Pörtschach elicited from -Brahms the following reply: - - 'PÖRTSCHACH, _Sept., 1878_. - - 'You have once already publicly preached to me the doctrine of - decorum; I do not wish this to occur, from no fault of mine, a - second time, and tell you, therefore, that it will be the - Hamburgers' concern if I do not appear at their festival. I have no - opportunity for showing politeness and gratitude; on the contrary, - some rudeness would be in place if I had time and inclination to - lose my temper over the matter. I do not wish to disturb yours by - detailed communication and will therefore only say that in spite of - inquiry, not a word has been said about honorarium or any sort of - remuneration. I, poor composer, am appraised at doubtful value and - lose all right to sit at the festival table, next to your wife, let - us say. I therefore beg this time for indulgence for my anyway - impaired reputation as a polite man. As regards the symphony, - indeed, I do not beg for indulgence, but I fear that unless its - direction be offered to Joachim as I wish, there will be a - miserable performance. Now, the dinners are good in Hamburg, the - symphony is of a favourable length--you can dream whilst it is - going on that you are in Vienna! I am thinking of going to Vienna - very soon....'[62] - -This dubious epistle need not be taken too seriously, true though it is -that the composer rightly made it a point throughout his career that his -work should be paid for, and, so to speak, at full market value. The -tone adopted by him on this occasion must be partly referred to the -remembrance of the old sore, which, perhaps, never quite healed--to the -mortification which had on two occasions cut deep into the heart of the -loyal Hamburger when his fellow-citizens offered to a stranger the -opportunity he would have welcomed to settle in their midst. It is not -wonderful that the invitation to attend, and presumably to take part in, -the Jubilee Festival of the society of which, had he so chosen, he ought -since many years to have been the artistic chief should have revived -past memories in the mind of the renowned master whose mere presence -could now invest the occasion with a peculiar significance. All's well -that ends well, however. How Brahms settled the matter with the -committee must be left to conjecture, but it is certain that he -astonished friends and acquaintance by coming to Hamburg with a long -flowing beard grown during the summer, which changed the character of -his face almost beyond recognition. It was, as we know, his second -experiment of the kind, and the beard, which he from this time -permanently retained, certainly added to the grandeur of his head, -though some of his old friends may occasionally have looked back with -regret to the days when the firm, purposeful mouth contributed its share -to the expression of his countenance. - -Nothing was ultimately wanting that could contribute to the success of -the Hamburg celebration. The first concert, on September 25, was devoted -to three of the musical giants--Bach, Handel, Beethoven; that of the -26th to Haydn, Mozart, Cherubini, Schumann, and, in memory of the -society's first conductor, W. Grund. The morning of the 27th was given -up to rehearsal--especially of Brahms' new symphony, under the -composer's direction; the afternoon, to the excursion and banquet. -Almost everyone had come from everywhere. Besides those who were taking -part in the concerts there were Hiller, Gernsheim, Gade, Reinecke, -Reinthaler, Grimm, Flotow, Theodor Kirchner, Verhülst (from the Hague), -Hanslick, Claus Groth, not to mention Grädener, of early days, and a -host of old Hamburg friends. Our master was in genial mood, and chatted -gaily with acquaintances old and new during the run down the river, but -a sign showed that his thoughts were with the past. Claus Groth, who was -placed at the banquet next to Brahms, relates that the proposer of the -composer's health referred in his speech to the old proverb of the -prophet's unworthiness in his own country, and pointed out its -inapplicability in the case of the day's ceremony, 'when the society -unites with me in praise and love of our Johannes Brahms.' - - 'Brahms turned to me,' continues Groth, 'and whispered in a deep - and serious tone, "This of my case! Twice was the vacant - conductor's post of the Philharmonic Society given to a stranger - whilst I was passed over. If it had been offered me at the right - time I should have become a methodical citizen, and could have - married and become like other men. Now I am a vagabond!"' - -That Brahms would under any circumstances have summoned up sufficient -courage to commit himself to the irretrievable step of matrimony we may -be permitted to doubt. That one obstacle which prevented him was his own -fear of the interruption that such a change might cause to his own -almost too orderly and methodical habits is fairly certain. - -The boat started from Blankenese on its return journey to St. Pauli's -landing-bridge, Hamburg, at 9.30 p.m., and at the moment of its -departure three rockets were sent up from deck and three shots fired -from shore, by arrangement with the inhabitants of the numerous villas -that line the bank of the Elbe, as a signal for the illumination of -houses and gardens, which accordingly gave graceful testimony to the -returning musicians of the widespread interest felt in the -occasion.[63] - -The third and concluding concert of the festival took place on the -evening of Sunday, September 29, with performances of Weber's 'Oberon' -overture, Songs by Schubert, Spohr's Concertante for two violins, -Brahms' second Symphony, under his own direction, and Mendelssohn's -'Walpurgis Nacht.' - - 'The delight of the public at Brahms' symphony was most - enthusiastically expressed,' says Hanslick. 'Brahms, who was - received with orchestra flourish and laurel wreath, himself - conducted, and Joachim played first violin in the orchestra. At the - close of the symphony the ladies of the chorus and in the first - rows of the audience threw their flowers to Brahms, who stood - there, in the words of his own cradle-song, "covered with roses."' - -Ludwig Meinardus, of the _Hamburger Correspondenten_, after giving a -detailed and most appreciative account of the several movements of the -work, continues: - - 'Brahms himself conducted his symphony, which is sealed with the - stamp of immortality, in his native city before an audience of - thousands raised to festival pitch, in which mingled a large number - of musical authorities from outside. The enthusiasm was increased - by this circumstance, and by the simplicity and quiet energy with - which Brahms handled the bâton. It prepared for him an ovation as - he ascended the conductor's desk in the shape of a big laurel - wreath, a flourish, and a stormy welcome from those upon and in - front of the platform; it broke out after each of the four - movements, and increased at the close of the third to a _da capo_ - demand to which the conductor and composer only at length and with - the reluctance of modesty resolved to yield; it was expressed - finally, at the close of the work, by persistent recalls and by a - rain of flowers which poured from all sides upon the admired and - revered composer.' - -The last few words seem to remind us of the early sixties, and to bring -us once more face to face with the Halliers, Völckers, Wagners, Fräulein -Laura Garbe, and other former members of the ladies' choir, many of whom -were still resident in Hamburg, and, having retained their old -affectionate admiration of their young musician without a jot of -abatement as they watched his course during the passing years, now -brought affection, admiration, and sympathetic triumph dressed in -graceful guise to throw at the feet of the famous master. Marxsen, -prevented by considerations of health from joining the excursion down -the river, was present at the concert, beaming with joy; Böie, too, -associated with early performances of the B flat Sextet and the G minor -Pianoforte Quartet, was there, whilst the presence of Christian Otterer, -who had played viola as an old friend at the subscription concert given -by the youthful Hannes at the 'Old Raven,' carried the associations of -the evening back almost to the year of the composer's birth. Two names -which we should gladly have included are missing from the list of our -old acquaintances. None would have more heartily rejoiced in the events -of the evening than Friedrich Willibald Cossel, now some thirteen -summers passed away; and what may not be imagined of Jakob Brahms' -exultant pride had six more years of life been spared him! We may -picture the pursed-up lips, the gratified expression of the eyes, the -playful assumption of dignity towards his own particular chums, the -tears of joy with which he would have answered Joachim's cordial -hand-grasp, the shy, gratified whisper to Carl Bade, 'Ik segge nix' (I -shall not speak), when some distinguished musician or charming lady had -desired to be introduced to him as the father of his son. Frau Cossel -was present with her talented daughter Marie (Frau Dr. Janssen), and the -old family ties so treasured by our master were represented by Elise and -Fritz, and by kind Frau Caroline with her son Fritz Schnack, who -entertained an almost adoring affection for his stepbrother. Frau -Caroline was invariably present at any concert in Hamburg in which -Johannes took part, by the composer's express desire. Elise begged her -brother after the concert for the wreaths that had been presented to -him. - - 'So you want to brag with them?' said he; 'come to me early - to-morrow morning; we will go together and lay them on father's - grave.' - -It may be added here, for the sake of completeness, that some time -later, on von Bernuth's contemplated resignation, a representative of -the Philharmonic Society called on Groth to ask his opinion as to the -probability of Brahms' acceptance of an offer of the conductorship. He -pointed out that the then committee could not justly be blamed for the -mistakes of their predecessors, which they were anxious to repair as far -as might now be possible, and Groth, after discussing the matter in -detail, consented to lay it informally before Brahms. We cannot wonder -that no answer was received to his communication; it must seem obvious -to most minds that the master could neither accept nor decline an offer -which had not been made. Had the committee decided to risk the slight -mortification of a refusal from Brahms by writing a definite proposal to -him, it is certain that he would have replied to it, though it seems -unlikely that he would have uprooted himself from the city where he had -formed intimate friendships now that one of the principal attractions -which Hamburg had possessed for him--the presence of his parents--had -ceased to exist. - -The publications of the year include, besides the Symphony in D major, a -set of 'Ballads and Romances' for two voices, dedicated to Julius -Allgeyer, the first of which has the Scotch ballad 'Edward' for its -text. - -Of other early performances of the second symphony we may mention those -of October 22 in Breslau, under the composer, and of November 23 in -Münster, under Grimm. Such a furore was created in Münster that the work -was repeated by general desire at the concert of December 21. - -At the Vienna Gesellschaft concert of December 8, No. 1 of the two -Motets, Op. 74, for unaccompanied chorus was sung, under the direction -of Edward Kremser, from the manuscript parts. All four movements, the -first and last in four, the second and third in six, parts, made a deep -impression, and in spite of the serious character of the work it was -followed by long-continued applause. The texts have the characteristics -usually preferred by Brahms for his sacred compositions, and, taken -together, are expressive of courageous, trustful resignation in the face -of mystery. The music, exquisitely suited to the words, furnishes -another example of deeply serious feeling clothed in the beautiful forms -of early contrapuntal art. - -Great interest was aroused in the musical circles of many lands by the -announcement that Joachim would play a violin concerto by Brahms at the -Leipzig Gewandhaus concert of January 1, 1879. Such an event was bound -to raise a particular question, connected not only with Brahms' musical -career, but with the history of musical art. Many concertos for violin -solo with orchestral accompaniment had been produced since the days of -Viotti, through those of Mozart and Spohr, down to the publication in -1877 of Max Bruch's second in D minor, and, of the most favoured, few -had retained more than an occasional place in concert-programmes. Two -only had survived the test of time as the pre-eminent masterpieces of -their class; those of Beethoven and Mendelssohn. If no work of the kind -could be placed exactly with Beethoven's Violin Concerto, yet, even as -compared with this supreme achievement, no thought of inferiority could -be applied to that of Mendelssohn, which immediately on its production -took the place it had ever since held as one of two _chefs-d'oeuvre_. -The question which now naturally suggested itself was whether Brahms' -new work would take its place as a third by the side of its two greatest -predecessors. It was the more interesting because, though the composer -was not now breaking essentially new ground, yet his one previous -concerto had been composed for the pianoforte, and whilst two decades -had elapsed since its completion in final form (Detmold, autumn of -1858), and first public performances (Hanover and Leipzig, January, -1859), it bore distinct traces of a still earlier period, with which we -now know it to have been associated. The experience of a life, -therefore, may almost be said to have intervened between the two works. - -Turning to our old friend Dörffel, already doubly proved impartial, for -his immediate impressions of the Gewandhaus concert of January 1, we -find his report very interesting reading. - - 'No less a task,' he says, 'confronted Brahms, if his salutation to - his friend were to be one suitable to Joachim's eminence, than the - production of a work that should reach the two greatest, Beethoven - and Mendelssohn. We confess to having awaited the solution with - some heart palpitation, though we firmly maintained our standard. - But what joy we experienced! Brahms has brought such a third work - to the partnership. The originality of the spirit which inspires - the whole, the firm organic structure in which it is displayed, the - warmth which streams from it, animating the work with joy and - light--it cannot be otherwise--the concerto must be the fruit of - the composer's latest and, as we believe, happiest experiences. - - 'The first movement is broad, with sharply defined contrasts - through which, however, the serious-soft mood is preserved; the - second is short, very thoughtful and fervent; the last, very - spirited and attractive. There is, however, a quite unusual - handling of the instrument, and again, a breath in the orchestra, - which make us look forward with delight to the study of the score; - we have seldom been so enthralled by the composer's genius. But - Joachim played, also, with a love and devotion which brought home - to us in every bar the direct or indirect share he has had in the - work. As to the reception, the first movement was too new to be - distinctly appreciated by the audience, the second made - considerable way, the last aroused great enthusiasm.' - -Bernsdorf was less unsympathetic than usual. He considered the concerto -'one of the clearest and most spontaneous of the composer's works.' Both -Joachim and Brahms, who conducted the orchestra, had to respond to -numerous recalls. - -Joachim, to whom the concerto is dedicated, brought the manuscript with -him to England, and performed it at the Crystal Palace Saturday concert -of February 22 (August Manns), at the Philharmonic concerts of March 6 -and 20 (W. G. Cusins), at some of his appearances in the north of -Britain, and, a little later, at a concert of the Royal Academy of Arts, -Berlin, when the accompaniment was played by his school orchestra. -Published in the course of the year, it has ever since held a -conspicuous place in his répertoire. The violinists Brodsky and, a -little later, Frau Roeger-Soldat were amongst those who associated their -names in a special manner with the early life of the work, which has -recently been frequently performed with immense success by Fritz -Kreisler. - -If the mood of this great concerto has, as Dr. Deiters remarks, -something in common with that of the second symphony, the sentiment is -maintained at a loftier height than that of the earlier composition, the -limpid grace of which has an immediate fascination for a general -audience. The concerto requires time for full appreciation, and though, -by general consent of the initiated, it undoubtedly occupies a position -on the plane assigned to it by Dörffel, it would be too much to assert -that it has as yet entirely conquered the heart of the great public. It -is gradually making its way, however, to what will probably become -unreserved popularity. - -The year 1879 is of particular interest in our narrative, not only in -relation to the Violin Concerto, but also because it included the -publication of two books of Pianoforte Pieces, Op. 76, the several -numbers of which are entitled 'Intermezzo' or 'Capriccio'; and the first -performance from the manuscript of a Sonata for pianoforte and violin. -We have traced the remarkable continuity of Brahms' development as a -composer during the first ten years of his connection with Vienna, in -its relation to the period which directly preceded his earliest visit to -the city. The period dating back from 1862 to 1852 is not so unbroken. -Quite another sequel than the actual one might have been anticipated -from the fact that of the first ten of the composer's published works -six had been pianoforte solos, five of them in other than variation -form. We have watched his progress from one stepping-stone of excellence -to another in this form, from the early beauties of the examples -contained in the Sonatas, Op. 1 and Op. 2, through the astonishing -technical advance displayed in Op. 9, up to a masterpiece, the Handel -Variations and Fugue, Op. 24, and have still had to add one more work to -the list, the Paganini Variations, with imposing characteristics of its -own; but we have not had to record the appearance of a single -unaccompanied pianoforte solo in any other form in the course of the -twenty-five years which succeeded the completion of the Ballades, Op. -10, in 1854 (published in 1856). Only now when the narrative has been -brought to the point appropriate for the contemplation of these facts is -it possible to point out the true significance to our master's career of -the four years of study passed in complete retirement by the composer, -as distinct from the pianist, Brahms, that followed the close of 1854. -On his reappearance in 1859 and 1860 with a number of new works, not -only had his technique been reformed, and transfigured, but the tendency -of his career changed. The fascination exercised over his mind by the -pure style of part-writing practised by the best masters of the early -Italian schools, and the extent of resource he had acquired by constant -assimilation of the treasure of Bach's learning, had given him an -irresistible bent towards the composition of works that led up to the -Requiem and Triumphlied on the one hand, and the String Quartets and -Symphonies on the other; and the same influences would naturally dispose -him towards the writing of chamber music for pianoforte and strings -rather than for pianoforte alone. It is well known that his innate -fastidiousness in regard to his own work was augmented in the case of -his first symphony by his never-ceasing consciousness of Beethoven's -overwhelming achievements in this domain; and his abstention, after his -earliest period, from the publication of a pianoforte sonata may have -been partially due to a similar, and perhaps even stronger, feeling -that Beethoven's sonatas cannot be succeeded. It is, however, -difficult to believe that Brahms' would not have persevered and -conquered--conquered in the sense of producing something appropriate to -his time--in the one case as in the other if he had felt a real impulse -to do so, and it may possibly be true that his genius was better suited -for the forms in which he worked than for those which he avoided. - -The two books of Pianoforte Pieces, which, with the two Motets, Op. 74, -dedicated to Philipp Spitta, the Violin Concerto, and the three -Pianoforte Studies after Bach without opus number, formed the -publications of the year 1879, contain, in all, eight numbers. Some of -them, written with simplicity of style and pervaded by a spirit of -dreamy content or graceful happiness, have become familiar to -music-lovers; others present difficulties both to listener and performer -which have hindered their popularity. Several contain interesting -examples of the composer's facility in the art of rhythmic and -contrapuntal device. - -The Sonata for pianoforte and violin in G major, performed from the -manuscript by Brahms and Hellmesberger at the Quartet concert of -November 20, is a pearl of pure and delicate imagination. The vivacity -of the first movement is painted in pale moonbeam tints, and must, as -one fancies, vanish before the first warm ray of sunshine. There is more -substantiality about the gentle melancholy of the adagio, though this -movement, again, is haunted by a strain of mystery. The last movement, -written in rondo form, has for its first subject that of the beautiful -'Rain-Song' already alluded to, and is a very dream of wistful charm. -Brahms' very original treatment of the pianoforte arpeggio, which is one -of the distinctive features of his style of writing for the instrument, -is well illustrated in the first movement of this work, in which the -arpeggio is raised from the mere position of a brilliant passage to that -of an essential part of the entire conception. A particularly clear -light is thrown also upon the composer's relation to Bach by the study -of the sonata, the methods of which are inherited from those of the -early giant-musician, as exemplified in his sonatas for clavier and -violin; and whilst Bach's methods flow as easily within the forms of the -Austrian masters as though they had always been an inseparable part of -them, the association is animated by the distinctive individuality of -our Brahms. Not, however, as it impressed itself upon us in his first -great series of works for pianoforte and strings. The spirit of the -Sonata in G is essentially that of the master's later period of -maturity. In it we feel that he has not only his powers, but his -emotions, well in hand, and has reached a period of life when he can -afford to look back calmly to the conflicts of the past. This no mere -fancy; we find as we proceed in the study of Brahms' art, not that the -nature of the man changed as he grew older, but that, whilst the -sunshine of complete recognition which brightened his later path through -life is felt in the clear spirit of some of his works, the reserve which -characterizes others is now dictated by the complete self-mastery which -it had been one of the efforts of his life to attain, and which lends -them a singular and pathetic charm as of consciously half-revealed power -and beauty. - -The Sonata in G major is the fourth composed by Brahms for pianoforte -and violin. The first, belonging to his first period, had, as we know, -been mysteriously lost on the eve of publication. The second and third -were rejected after completion by the composer's relentless -self-criticism, and the manuscripts destroyed by his own hand. The -publication of this one, known as the first, took place quite at the -beginning of the year 1880, and the work was played with immense success -by Brahms and Joachim during a short concert-tour they made together in -the Austrian provinces during the last week of January and the first of -February. In the course of his visit Joachim performed the Violin -Concerto at one of three orchestral concerts given by him in the large -hall of the Vienna 'Gesellschaft,' with the result to be expected from -the association of two names so dear to the Austrian public. - -The sonata was performed for the first time in England at the Monday -Popular concert of February 2 by von Bülow and Madame Norman-Néruda, and -at the Wednesday Popular concert, Cambridge, on the 25th of the same -month by C. Villiers Stanford and Richard Gompertz. One of the earliest -performances in Germany was that by Scholz and Himmelstoss at Breslau on -February 24. - -Brahms' first appearance at Crefeld on January 20 must be particularly -recorded for two reasons: in the first place because it introduces us to -a group of friends, his pleasant associations with whom are commemorated -in the dedication of one of his later works. A considerable amount of -music was performed during this first visit, and more on subsequent -ones, in the informal, sociable way Brahms liked, at the houses of Herr -and Frau Rudolph von der Leyen, with whom he always stayed, and of their -relatives, Herr and Frau Alwyn von Beckerath. Herr von Beckerath, a good -amateur performer, played viola in the resident string quartet led by -Professor Richard Barth, a former pupil of Joachim, an old acquaintance -of Brahms, and well known later on as von Bernuth's successor at -Hamburg, who was always present with his colleagues at these private -gatherings; and the enjoyment of the circle was enhanced during Brahms' -later visits to Crefeld by the singing, to the master's accompaniment, -of Fräulein Antonia Kufferath. This lady (now Mrs. Edward Speyer) has -interesting recollections connected with the Crefeld visits. Amongst -them is that of Brahms, who when once a composition was published -allowed it to pass from his mind, sometimes almost completely, coming -unawares upon a difficult passage in the accompaniment of one of his -songs, and having an instant's struggle with it. At the end he turned to -Fräulein Kufferath, saying, 'That is really difficult to read at sight!' - -The musical event which gives particular distinction to the Crefeld -concert of 1880, the programme of which included Brahms' second -Symphony, 'Harzreise' Rhapsody and Triumphlied, was the performance by -the composer of two new solos for the pianoforte, the Rhapsodies in B -minor and G minor, generally accepted as the finest of Brahms' shorter -works for the instrument. The second one especially, marked 'molto -passionato ma non troppo allegro,' is an inspiration from beginning to -end, and though not long, its length is sufficient to balance its -grandeur of idea and to give the effect of completeness to its -performance. Billroth, to whom Brahms, always needing sympathy, confided -the manuscripts on their completion in the early summer of 1879, -returned them with the words: - - 'The second piece has quite fascinated me. In both pieces there is - more of the young, heaven-storming Johannes than in the other late - works of the mature man.' - -The Sonata in G, Op. 78, the Rhapsodies, Op. 79, and the third and -fourth books of Hungarian Dances for Pianoforte Duet, without opus -number, were the publications of 1880. - -It may have been noticed by the reader that, in our record of the early -performances of Brahms' works during the closing seventies, no mention -has been made of Munich. The reason is not far to seek, and is such as -might almost have been anticipated. The time arrived when the paths of -Brahms and Levi separated, and its occurrence may be definitely dated in -November, 1876, when our master visited Munich to conduct his first -symphony, and stood there for the last time on a concert platform. - -The attraction felt by Levi towards Wagner's art and personality had -grown continually stronger since his preparation of the 'Meistersinger' -for performance at Carlsruhe in 1869 and the establishment of personal -relations between himself and Wagner to which it led; and his enthusiasm -for the man and his works received extraordinary stimulus from the first -performances of the 'Nibelungen Ring,' at which he was present, in the -temporary theatre at Bayreuth in August, 1876. The impulsive expression -to Brahms of his boundless admiration, carried beyond the point which -should have been prescribed by tact, seems to have convinced our master -that future relations between himself and Levi would be embarrassing to -both; and though he received his friend's outpourings without visible -sign, he took the wise and friendly course of abstaining from further -visits to Munich. Enough, it is hoped, has been related in these pages -of Brahms' appreciation of Wagner's powers to exclude the suspicion that -he was actuated by petty feeling in taking this line. Levi's want of -self-restraint was in one sense an acknowledgment of the master's -artistic generosity; but compliments of this kind should not be carried -to extremes, and Brahms' courage in adhering to a course certain to -expose him to misunderstanding saved Levi as well as himself from the -danger of the false position which must inevitably have threatened their -future intercourse. The wreath which Brahms sent to Bayreuth on Wagner's -death in February, 1883, was not the sign of a mere decorous compliance -with custom, but was a heart-felt tribute of recognition from the one -great master to the other. - -Brahms' separation from Levi necessarily involved a coolness between -himself and Allgeyer, who was one of the closest intimates of the Levi -circle, but this was only temporary, and was probably merely accepted by -Brahms as one of the incidents of the situation. It was got over during -a visit paid by Allgeyer to Vienna, and Brahms' pleasure at the renewal -of personal relations between himself and his old friend may be read in -the dedication of the 'Ballads and Romances' published in 1878, to which -reference has already been made. - -To Brahms' activity on the advisory committee for the granting of -Government stipendiums to young artists, combined with the growing -feeling of mental leisure which must have come to him at this period of -his mature mastership, must be ascribed the willingness shown by him, -from the middle of the seventies onward, to concern himself with the -musical progress of certain young composers who were courageous enough -to ask his opinion and advice, and in whose works he discerned talent. -Mention has been made of his prompt and emphatic appreciation of Dvorák. -Amongst other musicians of distinction who in their youth enjoyed the -advantage of his interest and friendship are Drs. Richard Heuberger, -Eusebius Mandycweski (now holding the important position of librarian to -the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde), von Rottenberg, and Jenner. We spoke -in the last chapter of some of the incidents of the master's friendship -for Heuberger, who says that Brahms' great talent for teaching became -continually clearer to him. 'With gifted young people who had already -passed through the school curriculum, he might have achieved great -things.' His criticism was so ruthless and searching as to be at first -profoundly discouraging, but he could praise warmly, too, and there was -no mistaking the pleasure he felt in being able to do so. His remarks to -Heuberger, chiefly called forth by points in the manuscripts--often -songs--laid before him, and by suggested improvements, usually served to -elucidate general principles. The close rhythmical association of music -with words, the conditions indispensable to the admission of -irregularity of bar rhythm, the construction of melody, are but a few of -the important points that were handled in the brief, incisive, pregnant -manner which illumined every subject that he touched upon. - -'Do you think,' said he one day, taking exception to an expression -inadvertently used by Heuberger apropos to the construction of his -melody, 'that any one of my half-dozen passable songs "occurred" to me? -I had to worry myself with them rarely! One must be able--don't take -this literally--to _whistle_ a song ... then it is good.' - -'Those _must_ have been eyes, but perhaps not so interesting to other -people,' he said, pointing to the too drawn-out setting of the words 'I -saw two eyes last Sunday morn,' in one of Heuberger's manuscripts, and -he improvised the passage in the closer form which the composer has -retained in his published song 'Bitt' ihn o Mutter.' - -The committee formed in 1871 to consider a scheme for the erection of a -monument to Schumann at Bonn had been so successful during the few years -following the festival of 1873, in collecting funds for their object, -that by the beginning of May, 1880, the memorial, designed and executed -by the sculptor Donnhorf, had been placed over Schumann's grave in the -Bonn cemetery, and nothing remained to be done save to unveil and -deliver it over to the municipal authorities. These ceremonies were to -be performed on the 2nd of the month, and to be followed by some -festival concerts with programmes of the master's music. - -Proceedings opened on the evening of May 1, when Frau Schumann, arrived -with some of her family on a visit to her old friends the Kyllmanns, to -whose house the reader was introduced in an earlier chapter, was greeted -by a serenade, sung in the garden by the members of the Concordia and -the Academic Vocal Union, which was followed by performances within -doors of the 'Lotos Blume' and the 'Traumender See.' President Wrede -then delivered an address, and on its conclusion introduced each member -of the societies individually to Frau Schumann. With her permission, -Herr Branscheidt sang two of Schumann's songs to the accompaniment of -Concertmeister Lorscheidt, and after the great artist had acknowledged -these compliments in a few suitable words, the vocalists returned to the -garden to sing 'Thou in the wood hast wandered,' from Schumann's -'Pilgrimage of the Rose.' With this performance the programme of the -evening terminated, and after Frau Schumann had again expressed her warm -thanks the visitors withdrew. - -The cemetery was crowded early the next day by friends desirous of -witnessing the unveiling of the monument. Nearly twenty-four years had -gone by since the simple funeral procession had followed Schumann's -remains through the streets of Bonn; since a group of young musicians -stood together at the open grave, supported by the sympathy of a -concourse of friends and music-lovers, to take their last farewell of -the illustrious dead. Now they were reassembled on the same spot to do -honour to the beloved master's memory. Not one was missing. Brahms, -Joachim, Dietrich, the three young chief mourners of the first occasion, -stood together again as middle-aged men; Hiller the older friend, Grimm, -and Bargiel, all were there, and Stockhausen, since many years one of -the circle. The central figure in to-day's proceedings had been absent, -prostrated with sorrow, from the funeral ceremony. Frau Schumann now -stood with her daughters at the foot of the monument, her usual pathetic -expression deepened by the rush of varied memories, but with controlled -demeanour. Amongst those present in an official capacity were the mayor -of Bonn, Herr Oberbürgermeister Doetsch; the sculptor, Professor -Donnhorf, from Dresden; the president of the memorial committee, -Professor Schaafhausen, and the members of the two choral societies with -President Wrede. - -The singing of the fine old chorale, 'Was Gott thut das ist wohlgethan' -was the prelude to the address in which Geheimrath Schaafhausen gave the -monument over to the city of Bonn. Whilst he was speaking the covering -fell, and as he concluded many beautiful wreaths were laid on the grave -to the accompaniment of a second chorale. An address of thanks was -delivered on behalf of the city by Oberbürgermeister Doetsch, and the -singing of a third chorale, with the placing of more wreaths, brought -the formalities to a close. The following telegram was handed to the -mayor in the course of the proceedings: - - 'The Society of Music-lovers and the Conservatoire of Vienna - congratulate Bonn on the honour of having to-day erected the first - memorial to Schumann as previously that to Beethoven.' - -The programme of the orchestral concert which took place in the evening -of May 2, beginning at six o'clock, included Schumann's E flat Symphony -and Requiem for Mignon, conducted by Brahms; a poetic 'Prologue,' -composed and recited by Herr Emil Ritterhaus of Barmen; the Manfred -music conducted by Joachim, with Ernst von Possart, director of the -court theatre of Munich, in the chief declamatory part; and as single -exception in the list of Schumann's works, Brahms' Violin Concerto, -conducted by the composer, and played by Joachim in so perfect and ideal -a manner as to be, 'not merely interpretative, but absolutely creative.' -A rain of bouquets followed its conclusion. Three works were given at -the chamber music concert of the following morning: Schumann's String -Quartet in A minor, led by Joachim; Spanisches Liederspiel; and Quartet -for pianoforte and strings, of which Brahms and Joachim played the -pianoforte and violin parts respectively. - -To this year is to be referred the composition of the only two overtures -published by Brahms. The 'Tragic,' the grave character of which may be -inferred from its title, was performed for the first time in December at -the fourth concert of the Vienna Philharmonic season. Dr. Deiters says -of it: - - 'In this work we see a strong hero battling with an iron and - relentless fate; passing hopes of victory cannot alter an impending - destiny. We do not care to inquire whether the composer had a - special tragedy in his mind, or if so, which one; those who remain - musically unconvinced by the unsurpassably powerful theme, would - not be assisted by a particular suggestion.' - -The 'Academic Festival Overture' which we know, was the one out of three -selected by the composer for preservation. It was composed in -acknowledgment of the honorary doctor's degree offered to Brahms in 1880 -by the university of Breslau, and was performed for the first time in -that city on January 4, 1881, under his direction. The companion work, -the Tragic Overture, and the second Symphony were included in the same -programme. The newly-made Doctor of Philosophy was received with all the -honour and enthusiasm befitting the occasion and his work, and was again -stormily applauded on the 6th, when he performed Schumann's Fantasia, -Op. 17, his two Rhapsodies, and the pianoforte part of his Horn Trio, at -a concert of chamber music. - -In the Academic Overture the sociable spirit reappears which had -prompted the boy of fourteen to compose an ABC part-song for his -seniors, the village schoolmasters in and around Winsen. Now the -renowned master of forty-seven seeks to identify himself with the -youthful spirits of the university with which he has become associated, -by taking, for principal themes of his overture, student melodies loved -by him from their association with the early Göttingen years of happy -companionship with Joachim, with Grimm, with von Meysenbug and others. -Four of these, 'Wir hatten gebauet,' 'Hört ich sing' 'Was kommt dort,' -and the 'Gaudeamus,' are introduced in the course of the movement, which -is written in regular classical form, and the composer lingers with -particular affection over the third one, the song that in student -circles accompanies the merry 'Fox-ride,' which in the summer of 1853 -carried Brahms so many leagues distant from the earlier stages of his -life's journey. The favourite 'Gaudeamus igitur,' given with the full -strength of the orchestra, brings the masterly and effective work to a -brilliant conclusion. The two overtures, bearing to each other a -relation analogous to that which exists between the first and second -symphonies, furnish another instance of the composer's occasional habit -of writing at once, or in quick succession, two works of the same form -animated by contrasted subjective qualities. The 'Academic' has become -very familiar to concert-goers, and has, so far, attained to more -universal popularity than the impressive 'Tragic.' - -Both works were performed from the manuscript, under the composer's -direction, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus concert of January 13, but alike -failed to make much impression. If, however, Brahms felt any -disappointment at the persevering coldness evinced towards his art in -the musical metropolis of North Germany, he must have derived some -consolation from the success which attended the performances of the -Academic Overture and other works conducted by him in Münster on January -22 and in Crefeld on the 25th, and by the warm welcome which awaited him -in each of the Dutch cities--Amsterdam, the Hague, Haarlem--which he -visited in the course of the same month. Holland, distinguished -musically by its early appreciation of Schumann's art, was now repeating -history by its enthusiastic acceptance of that of Brahms. In each town -where he appeared he had opportunity to perceive how deeply his music -had taken root in the country. Of his many distinguished Dutch friends -may be mentioned the composer Verhulst, a man of eminent parts and -attractive personality, who had enjoyed the friendship of Mendelssohn -and of Schumann. Brahms did not this winter fulfil any public engagement -at Utrecht, but he stayed there for a day or two as the Engelmanns' -guest, and did his share of music-making in private. To one old habit he -steadfastly adhered during the visit, though it had little to do with -art. Every morning on returning from his early walk he made his way to -the nursery, and after a game of romps carried one child or another on -his shoulder down to breakfast. To say the truth, this was not an -unmixed pleasure to the little ones, who were sometimes frightened at -their elevation, for the master's gait was not of the smoothest. His -persevering sociability, however, was generally rewarded in the end by -the confidence of the little ones in which he felt such satisfaction. - -It is interesting to find Liszt and Brahms crossing each other's paths -again in the month of February, after a long interval of years that had -been big with consequence, and not only to the younger musician; since -the triumph of Wagner's art must for ever be associated with the name of -its first generous protagonist. The two men were brought together by the -occasion of a concert given in Budapest by Hans von Bülow, who, on -arriving at the Hôtel Ungaria, found Brahms staying there, probably by -preconcerted arrangement. - - 'Très cher unique,' writes Liszt to Bülow on February 13; 'I have - taken a slight cold, and in order not to spoil the day and evening - of to-morrow, must retire early to-night. - - 'Pray express my affectionate thanks to Brahms, and convey to him - the invitation of Madame La Baronne Eötoos to luncheon to-morrow at - 1 o'clock without ennui or vexation. Quite the contrary. I shall - arrive at the Hôtel Ungaria at a quarter before one in order to - conduct you to Her Excellency's house.' - -It no doubt afforded genuine satisfaction to the warm-hearted von Bülow -to place his two friends on a passing footing of sociability. He had -already begun, in his new position as capellmeister to Duke George of -Saxe-Meiningen, to which he had been appointed the previous year, to use -the increased influence at his command in the interests of our master's -art, and before the close of this his first season of activity in the -Thuringian capital, Brahms' first and second symphonies and other works -had been performed under Bülow's direction before a highly sympathetic -audience at the concerts of the court orchestra. - -The two Overtures, and 'Nänie,' to which we have yet to refer in detail, -were published in the course of 1881.[64] - -[61] First published with others by Hanslick in the _Neue Freie Presse_ -of July 1, 1897. - -[62] Hanslick, _Neue Freie Presse_, as before. - -[63] Claus Groth, in the Brahms Recollections to which we have several -times referred, speaks of the festival banquet as having taken place at -the Hamburger Hof, Hamburg, and 'as I think' after the performance of -Brahms' symphony. Groth's articles were written in the year 1897, when -he was at an advanced age--he was much Brahms' senior--and his memory -has misled him in one or two of his details. As regards those here -referred to, the author has, in the above description, followed the -accounts given in the _Hamburger Correspondenten_ of the time, with -which that of Hanslick, in his very interesting 'Essays on Music and -Musicians,' is in strict accord. - -[64] See p. 29 of this volume. - - - - - CHAPTER XIX - 1881-1885 - - 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 - Fellinger--Pianoforte Trio in C major--First String Quintet--The - 'Parzenlied'--Third Symphony. - - -A holiday taken with Billroth in Sicily in the early spring was -succeeded by Brahms' removal to summer quarters, chosen this year at -Pressbaum, near Vienna. Here he was occupied with the composition of -Schiller's 'Nänie,' to which Feuerbach's death had moved him, and of a -second concerto for pianoforte and orchestra in B flat. The manuscripts -of 'Nänie' and of portions of the concerto were soon lent to Billroth, -the concerto movements being handed to him with the words, 'A few little -pianoforte pieces.' - - 'It is always a delight to me,' writes Billroth, 'when Brahms, - after paying me a short visit, during which we have talked of - indifferent things, takes a roll out of his paletôt pocket and says - casually "Look at that and write me what you think of it."' - -The composer was pleasantly disturbed in August from his quietly busy -life by a visit from Widmann, who was staying in Vienna, and who thus -describes his meeting with the friend he had not met for three years: - - 'Walking through the garden, I came upon the master sitting reading - at an open window on the ground floor of his idyllic dwelling, and - at once instinctively felt that he had entered upon a period of his - career when there could be no longer any thought of his commencing - upon an entirely new domain of his art [opera]. It may sound absurd - when I confess that the splendid, already slightly grizzled beard - in which I saw him for the first time, and scarcely recognised him, - seemed to me a symbol of the great composer's present personality, - now entirely self-adequate and perfectly defined and assured within - its own limits. I was so completely dumbfoundered, however, by the - surprise of seeing this Jupiter head that a question burst from me - as to the reason of the alteration. "One is taken for an actor or a - priest if one is clean shaven," answered Brahms, complacently - stroking the flowing beard. He now had a naïve satisfaction in his - own appearance, and smilingly mentioned that his photograph with - beard had been used in the Velhagen and Clasing school book edition - to illustrate the Caucasian type.... The opera project was not - mentioned....'[65] - -Brahms accepted numerous invitations from Germany, Switzerland, and -Holland to take part in performances of his new works. He had for some -time relaxed his early caution, and was now generally ready to introduce -his compositions to the public on their completion, though adhering to -his old custom of retaining possession of the manuscript of an important -work for his own benefit until after its first performances, when he -allowed the business of engraving to proceed without delay. - -The new Pianoforte Concerto was played by the composer in Stuttgart on -November 22 (Court Capellmeister Seyfrix) first time; in Meiningen on -the 27th; Zürich, Breslau, Vienna (Philharmonic), respectively December -6, 20, 26; Leipzig, Hamburg (Philharmonic), Berlin (Meiningen -orchestra), Kiel, Bremen, Hamburg (Meiningen orchestra), Münster, -Utrecht, in January, and Frankfurt in February, 1882. The work was -received with immense enthusiasm throughout the tour, excepting at -Leipzig, where it achieved only a _succès d'estime_. - -During his visit to Meiningen, Brahms was the guest of the reigning Duke -George and his consort, the Baroness von Heldburg. Three fine rooms _en -suite_ on the ground-floor of the castle were placed at his disposal, -and in the most spacious of them, arranged as a music-room, one of the -Duke's fine Bechstein pianofortes had been placed. The apartment, -having direct access to the castle grounds, afforded the composer easy -opportunity to indulge in his favourite recreation of walking. - -Bülow had left nothing undone that could contribute éclat to his -friend's first public appearance in Meiningen, which he heralded a few -days beforehand by giving a performance of the German Requiem at an -extra concert of the court orchestra. The concert-hall was completely -filled on the evening of the 27th, and on the arrival of the Duke of -Saxe-Meiningen and the Baroness von Heldburg, accompanied by Cardinal -Prince Hohenlohe, the opening number of the Brahms programme, the Tragic -Overture, was listened to by a breathlessly expectant audience. The -first glimpse of the composer as he advanced to the platform to play the -solo of the new Pianoforte Concerto in B flat caused an outburst of -welcome which made it impossible for him to take his seat immediately, -and the enthusiasm, growing with each movement, reached its climax at -the end. 'Brahms and Bülow transported the audience to a state of -exaltation,' wrote the critic next day. The Haydn Variations closed the -first part of the concert; the second part, consisting of the C minor -Symphony and the Academic Overture, was conducted by the composer. On -its termination the Duke expressed his appreciation by decorating Brahms -with the cross of his family order. - -The visit to Meiningen marked the beginning of a cordial friendship -between the art-loving prince and his consort on one hand and Brahms on -the other, which brought many pleasant hours to the great musician. He -always stayed at the castle when at Meiningen, where he was the centre -of many private musical gatherings. Several times he was a guest at the -castle of Altenstein, the Duke's country residence. Here, as at -Meiningen, he was allowed perfect freedom of action, could work without -fear of disturbance, take solitary walks in the neighbourhood, or -saunter in the grounds in company, and was even permitted to retain his -very unconventional style of dress during the day. In the evening he -recognised the claims of ceremonial custom, and actually seemed to take -a kind of pleasure in dressing for dinner and wearing his decorations. -He did not abate one jot, however, of his usual independent expression -of opinion, and would defend his own point of view with characteristic -bluntness and tenacity no matter who might happen to differ from him. An -instance of this trait, as well as of his singular political acumen, of -interest at the present time, occurred at the beginning of the war -between China and Japan. Brahms declared his belief, which was not -shared by others present, in the ultimate success of Japan, and angrily -anticipated the injustice by which the selfish interference of the -Western Powers would deprive her of the fruits of victory. The Duke's -answer, which reminded him that European interests were involved in the -question, left him gruffly unconvinced, but the incident was allowed to -pass. - -It was not only by his illustrious host that the composer came to be -loved. He made himself a favourite with everyone in the Duke's service -with whom he came in contact; his visits to Meiningen and Altenstein -Castles were regarded by the entire household as a distinction and -pleasure, and the harmless jokes and playful sayings in which he -continued to find a childlike satisfaction to the end of his life are -remembered by these friends with affection and regret. - -The concert at Zürich on December 6, the programme of which included the -first performance of 'Nänie,' made an extraordinary impression, and was -so brilliantly successful financially that, in the words of Steiner, - - 'the committee could not rest satisfied without giving visible and - lasting expression to their feelings of gratitude and veneration - towards the author of such glorious achievements.' - -It took the form of a silver cup, designed for the occasion by Bosshard -of Lucerne, and was forwarded to the master on its completion. Brahms -wrote his thanks to Hegar in the following words: - - 'MOST ESTEEMED FRIEND, - - 'Your goblet has arrived, and the étui containing the musical - silver angel glitters like an open altar shrine upon the piano. You - cannot think how beautiful and kind it stands there, and with what - pleasure I look at it! - - 'But now, please, use your best words to assure your esteemed - fellow members of the great pleasure they have given me and how - grateful I am for their kindness. You can easily supply details - which I am shy of adding and which, if written, might sound trivial - and vain. You, however, are aware that such a friendly token of - appreciation and sympathy is a very serious matter.... - - 'Now, with hearty greeting to you and yours, - - 'Yours most sincerely, - 'J. BRAHMS.'[66] - -In his setting of 'Nänie,' dedicated to Frau Henriette Feuerbach and -performed from the manuscript at this concert, Brahms has conceived the -calm fatalistic spirit of classical antiquity represented in Schiller's -funeral dirge as perfectly as he has embodied in the music of the German -Requiem the passionate intensity of the writers of the Old and New -Testaments. A current of tender pathos glides evenly through the lament, -which is somewhat strengthened during the passing image of Aphrodite -bewailing the loss of her son, but not sufficiently to disturb the -smooth onward flow of the passages proceeding continuously from -beginning to end of the work. It seems to suggest the ancient Greek idea -of death as the final decree of destiny, hardly to be dreaded, not to be -questioned or resisted, immutable even in the presence of beauty, just -as clearly as the powerful contrasts of the Requiem present the Biblical -conception of death as an enemy to be opposed and finally destroyed in -the victory of an all-conquering love. - -Dr. Carl Neumann describes a visit paid by him to Frau Feuerbach when -she was seventy-five years of age, at her house in Ansbach. He went -through two rooms. - - 'In the first was a grand piano on which lay Brahms' "Nänie"; in - the second, one might say, dwelt the departed. Tall green plants - stood in the window recesses obscuring the light. What the mother - had of her son's works hung on the walls. The coloured sketch of a - "Descent of the Cross," a flower study belonging to the time when - the frame of "Plato's Feast" was painted, a drawing of the standing - Iphigenia looking towards the land of Greece--here was her - altar.... - - 'We left this room. She sat down to the piano, at first as if to - rest; then asked if I knew Brahms' "Nänie," which, as an admirer of - her son's art, he had dedicated to her. She gave me the music to - follow and began to play it by heart.... - - 'Suddenly I looked up.... The woman at the piano in the black - dress, a black veil on her white hair, seemed changed. The tall - figure, bent forward and lost in tones and memories; was it not the - tragic muse herself and was she not sounding a song of fate? - - 'In the spring of 1886 she once again met Brahms and heard "Nänie" - under Joachim.'[67] - -The want of appreciation of the new concerto shown by the audience of -the Leipzig Gewandhaus did not escape the notice of Hans von Bülow in -his capacity as Brahms' champion, and he carried his band to Leipzig in -the middle of March to give a series of three concerts, two of them -respectively devoted to Beethoven and Brahms, and the other divided -between Mendelssohn and Schumann. The Brahms programme included the C -minor Symphony, Haydn Variations, and the D minor Concerto played by -Bülow, the orchestra accompanying without a conductor. The applause -which followed the movements of the symphony as the work proceeded was -not hearty enough to satisfy the excitable capellmeister, who at the end -of the third movement desired his orchestra to repeat it, and on the -conclusion of the work turned round and addressed his audience. He had, -he said, arranged the Brahms programme by express command of his Duke, -who had desired that the Leipzig public should know how the symphony -ought to be performed; and also to obtain satisfaction for the coldness -manifested towards the composer on his appearance with the new concerto -at the Gewandhaus on January 1. It need hardly be said that eccentric -efforts such as this on the part of a musician for many years -conspicuously identified with the New-German school could have no result -one way or the other in directing the artistic leanings of the city. - -Brahms' Pianoforte Concerto in B flat is of quite unusual dimensions, -and differs not only from his first in D minor, but from almost every -other preceding work of its kind, in containing four movements, the -additional one of which, a long 'allegro appassionato,' succeeds -immediately to the first allegro. Probably few hearers of the work would -subscribe to the reason for this innovation given by the composer to his -friend Billroth. - - 'When I asked him about it, he said that the opening movement - appeared to him too simple; he required something strongly - passionate before the equally simple andante.' - -If anything of the usual meaning of the word 'simple' is to be attached -to its use here--_i.e._, something without complication and easy of -comprehension--it must be said that the second movement of the concerto, -in spite of its passionate character, is very much simpler than the -first. Its plan, whilst containing points of originality, is perfectly -symmetrical, and stands out in well-balanced proportions clearly evident -to the imagination. - -The first movement, on the other hand, is extraordinarily difficult to -grasp as a whole, partly on account of its great length, but still more -from the ambiguity of the rôle assigned to the solo instrument on its -entry after the first orchestral 'tutti.' The principle to be traced in -the first movements of the concertos of Mozart and Beethoven, by giving -to the solo, on each entry, something of the character of a brilliant -improvisation, supported by the band, on the material of a preceding -'tutti,' insures for it a clearly defined position, and, whilst -preserving a due balance between the orchestra and the solo instrument, -lends contrast to the movement as a whole. Brahms would almost seem, in -the instance under consideration, to have deliberately degraded the -pianoforte from its legitimate position as dominant factor in its own -domain. True, it enters with eight bars' quasi-improvisatory restatement -of the principal theme, but it sinks immediately afterwards to occupy -the subordinate rôle of the answering voice in a kind of antiphonal duet -with the orchestra, which it imitates almost servilely, fragment by -fragment, during a lengthy succession of bars. This method of treatment -robs the solo, not only of its effect, but almost of its very _raison -d'être_, and, by blurring the outline of the movement, is probably -chiefly answerable for the sense of fatigue, to which even Billroth -confessed, that most people feel after listening to a performance of the -entire work. This is not the place for a detailed discussion of the -movement, which, with all its grandeur, scarcely realizes the great -expectations warranted by its magnificent opening. A comparison of it -with the first movement of Beethoven's Pianoforte Concerto in E flat -will make the foregoing remarks clear, the more so as the ground-plan is -much the same in the two compositions. The third and fourth movements of -Brahms' concerto are as easy to follow as the second. The andante is -fervent and melodious, and the finale offers to the ear a dainty feast -of sound sparkling from beginning to end with graceful vivacity. - -This concerto has, like its predecessor, sometimes been described as a -symphony with pianoforte obligato. The comparison is in each case -misleading. Both works are essentially based on the modern concerto form -as established by Mozart. - -The Concerto in B flat, published in 1882, was dedicated by Brahms to -'his dear friend and teacher Edward Marxsen.' It was performed--probably -for the first time in England--by Charles Hallé at one of the famous -Manchester concerts, and by Heinrich Barth at a Crystal Palace Saturday -concert of November, 1884. The present author played it in London -December 13, 1888, at her matinée at Messrs. Broadwood's, and on -February 14, 1891, at her private concert at the Royal Academy of Music, -kindly accompanied in the composer's arrangement of the orchestral part -for two pianofortes, on the first occasion by Mr. Otto Goldschmidt and -Mr. Stephen Kemp, and on the second by Messrs. Stephen Kemp and Septimus -Webbe. Frederic Lamond introduced it to the audience of the Philharmonic -Society, St. James's Hall, on May 14, 1891. Since these dates the -concerto has been frequently played in Great Britain by Leonard Borwick. -Fräulein Marie Baumeyer of Vienna was the first lady to perform the -immensely difficult work. She played it in Graz in 1883, and later, in -the composer's presence, at one of her concerts in Vienna. - -The other publications of 1882 were a book of Romances and Songs for one -or for two voices, and two books of Songs for one voice. The two -Overtures and 'Nänie' were issued in 1881. - -Brahms passed a considerable part of the first quarter of 1882 in -Hamburg, to the joy of his friends there. He had written in good time to -Frau Caroline to bespeak his favourite 'corner room,' and made his -headquarters from the beginning of January with his stepmother. He had -accepted an invitation to conduct his Requiem at the annual Good Friday -concert of sacred music at the Stadt Theater, and was occupied several -weeks beforehand with preliminary study and rehearsals. The choir of 200 -consisted of the members of the Bach Society and opera chorus combined. -The performance, which took place on April 7, partook of the character -of a solemn memorial service, and the audience properly abstained from -applause, though the sixth number created an impression that would make -itself audible. At the close of the concert the composer received a vote -of cordial thanks tendered in the name of all present. - -[Illustration: BRAHMS' LODGINGS AT ISCHL. - -_By permission of Frau Maria Fellinger._] - -The master stayed, for the second time, at Ischl during the summer -months. Billroth, who was in the neighbourhood, writes of him in August: - - 'I should like to enjoy myself in Italy from September 15 till - October 1. Brahms wishes to accompany me.... He has been very busy - lately. Three books of songs have been published. A string quintet - and a trio are ready, both of them simpler, shorter, brighter than - his earlier things; he strives consciously for shortness and - simplicity. He lately sent me the manuscript of a true work of art, - the "Parzenlied" [Song of the Fates] from Goethe's "Iphigenia." - Very deep but simple.' - -The journey to Italy duly took place, the proposed party of two being -enlarged to one of four by the addition of Ignaz Brüll and Simrock. -Original plans had to be modified on account of the exceptionally wet -season, and the chief places visited were Vicenza, Padua, and Venice. - -The personnel of Brahms' intimate friends in Vienna had remained on the -whole much what it had become a very few years after his arrival in the -Austrian capital. Of its closest circle the Fabers, Billroths, and -Hanslicks, with whom must be associated Joachim's cousins, the various -members of the Wittgenstein family--amongst them Frau Franz and Frau Dr. -Oser--still formed the nucleus. An acquaintance with Herr Victor von -Miller zu Aichholz and his wife had meanwhile ripened into warm -friendship, and their house became one of those whose hospitality was -most frequently and gladly accepted by the master. Amongst the -musicians, Carl Ferdinand Pohl, author of the standard Life of Mozart, -and, since 1866, archivar to the Gesellschaft, was one of his dearest -friends. With the leading professors of the conservatoire his relations -continued very cordial, and amongst the younger musicians to whom, in -addition to his early allies, Goldmark, Gänsbacher and Epstein, he -extended his friendly regard, may be mentioned Anton Door and Robert -Fuchs. The feeling of warm friendship existing between Brahms and Johann -Strauss has been commemorated in several well-known anecdotes. The -autumn of 1881, however, brought to permanent residence in Vienna a -family that before long made notable addition to the master's intimate -circle. Special circumstances conduced to the speedy formation of a bond -of friendship between Brahms and the new-comers, Dr. and Frau Fellinger. -In the first place, they were friends of Frau Schumann and her -daughters, and as such had an instant claim on his courtesy, which he -acknowledged by calling on them as soon as possible after their -arrival. In the second, his interest was awakened by the fact that Frau -Dr. Fellinger was the daughter of Frau Professor Lang-Köstlin, the -gifted Josephine Lang, whose attractive personality and talent for -composition made a strong impression upon Mendelssohn when he was a -youth of twenty-one and some six years the lady's senior. The story of -Josephine, who at the age of twenty-six married Professor Köstlin of -Tübingen, is given in Hiller's 'Tonleben,' and Mendelssohn's -congratulations to her bridegroom-elect may be read in the second volume -of the 'Letters.' The talent for art which had come to her as a family -inheritance was transmitted to her daughter, though with a difference. -Frau Dr. Fellinger's gifts have associated themselves especially with -the plastic arts; in the first place with that of painting, but they -have become well known in the musical world also by her busts and -statuettes of Brahms, Billroth, and others belonging to their circle. -Her photographs of our master are now familiar to most music-lovers. -When it is added that Brahms found he could command in Dr. Fellinger's -hospitable house, not only congenial intellectual sympathy, but the -unceremonious intercourse with a simple, affectionate family circle in -which he had through life found a pre-eminent source of happiness, it -will easily be understood that he became a more and more frequent guest -there, until, during the closing years of his life, it became for him -almost a second home. - -The master introduced two of his new works in the course of a few weeks' -journey undertaken in the winter of 1882-83. According to Simrock's -Thematic Catalogue, the Pianoforte Trio in C major, the String Quintet -in F major, and the 'Parzenlied' constitute the publications of 1883. -Early copies of the trio and quintet were sent out, however, and the -works were publicly performed from them in December, 1882. An -interesting entry in Frau Schumann's diary says: - - 'I had invited Koning and Müller to come and try Brahms' new trio - with me on Thursday 21st [December]. Who should surprise us as we - were playing it--he himself! He came from Strassburg and means to - stay with us for Christmas. I played the trio first and he repeated - it.' - -Both works were performed on December 29 at a Museum chamber music -concert--the Quintet by the Heermann-Müller party, the Trio by Brahms, -Heermann, and Müller. - -Amongst the early performances of the Trio were those on January 17 and -22 respectively in Berlin (Trio Concerts: Barth, de Ahna, Hausmann) and -London (Monday Popular Concerts: Hallé, Madame Néruda, Piatti), and at -Hellmesberger's in Vienna on March 15. - -The work has not become one of the most generally familiar of the -master's compositions, though it is not easy to say why. It contains no -trace of the 'heaven-storming Johannes,' but, like many of the later -compositions, it breathes, and especially the first movement, with a -rich, mellow warmth suggestive of one to whom the experiences of life -have brought a solution of their own to its problems, which has quieted, -if it has not altogether satisfied, the aspirations and impulses of -youth. - -The Quintet in F for strings is, for the most part, bright, concise, and -easy to follow. As one of its special features may be mentioned the -combination of the usual two middle movements in the second. It was -given in Hamburg on the 22nd and in Berlin on the 23rd of January, -respectively by Bargheer and Joachim and their colleagues (it should be -noted that Hausmann had at this time succeeded Müller as the -violoncellist of the Joachim Quartet), at Hellmesberger's on February -15, and at the Monday Popular, London, of March 5. - -Brahms conducted the first performance of the Parzenlied in Basle on -December 8, 1882. Excellently sung by the members of the Basle Choral -Society, the work met with extraordinary success, and was repeated after -the New Year by general desire. Similar results followed its performance -in other towns, of which Strassburg and Crefeld should be specially -mentioned. The programme of the Crefeld concert included the fifth -movement of the Requiem. 'What is your _tempo_?' Brahms inquired, on -the morning of the rehearsal, of Fräulein Antonia Kufferath, who was to -sing the solo. The lady, not taking the question seriously from the -composer of the music, waived a reply. 'No, I mean it; you have to hold -out the long notes. Well, we shall understand each other,' he added; -'sing only as you feel, and I will follow with the chorus.' - -These are characteristic words, and valuable in more than one sense. To -most of the few works to which the master has placed metronome -indications--and the Requiem is amongst these--he added them by special -request, and attached to them only a limited importance. An absolutely -and uniformly 'correct' pace for a piece of genuine music does not -exist. The pace must vary to some extent according to subtle conditions -existent in the performer, and the instinct of a really musical -executant or conductor will, as a rule, be a safer guide, within limits, -than what can be at best but the mechanical markings even of the -composer himself. - -The Parzenlied, received with enthusiasm throughout Brahms' tour in -Germany and Switzerland, was not equally successful in Vienna, where it -was heard for the first time at the Gesellschaft concert of February 18 -under Gericke. The austere simplicity of the music, which paces -majestically onward with the concentrated, resigned calm of despair, -adds extraordinary force to Goethe's poem, but does not appeal to every -audience, and the work has never become a prime favourite in the -Austrian Kaiserstadt. The song is set for six-part chorus with -orchestra, in plainer harmonic masses and with less employment of -imitative counterpoint than we usually find in the works of Brahms, who -has accommodated his music here, as in 'Nänie,' to the classical spirit -of the text. A singular deviation, however, which occurs in the course -of the setting, from the uncompromising severity of the words, furnishes -a remarkable illustration of the composer's unconquerable idealism. -Comment was made in its place on the beautiful device by which he has -sought to relieve the dark mood of Hölderlin's 'Song of Destiny'--the -addition of an instrumental postlude which breathes forth a message of -tender consolation that the poet could hardly have rendered in words. In -Schiller's 'Nänie' the lament, with all its calm, gives expression to a -sentiment of compassionate sorrow that is perfectly reproduced in the -master's music. Goethe's Fates, however, in their measured recitation of -the gods' relentless cruelty, would have seemed to offer no possible -opportunity for even the inarticulate expression of ruth. Least of all, -it might be imagined, could any concession to the demands of the human -heart have been found in the penultimate stanza of their song: - - 'The rulers exclude from - Their favouring glances - Entire generations, - And heed not in children - The once so belovèd - And still speaking features - Of distant forefathers.' - -Our Brahms, however, who, in spite of his increasing weight, his shaggy -beard, his frequently rough manners, his unsatisfied affections, his -impenetrable reserve, remained at fifty, in his heart of hearts, the -very same being whom we have watched as the loving child of seven, the -simple-minded boy of fourteen, the broken-hearted man of thirty, sobbing -by the death-bed of his mother, cannot leave the dread gloom of his -subject unrelieved by a single ray. He seems, in his setting of the last -strophe but one, to concentrate attention on past kindness of the gods, -and thus, perhaps, subtly to suggest a plea for present hope. How far -the musician was justified in thus wandering from the obvious intention -of his poet must be left to each hearer of the work to determine for -himself. If it be the case, as has sometimes been suggested, that the -variation was made by the composer in the musical interests of the piece -as a work of art, it cannot be held to have fulfilled its purpose; for -the striking inconsistency between words and music in the verse in -question has a disturbing effect on the mind of the listener. We -believe, however, that the true explanation of the master's procedure -is more radical, and is to be found in the nature of the man in which -that of the musician was grounded. - -The Parzenlied was dedicated to 'His Highness George, Duke of -Saxe-Meiningen,' and was included in a Brahms programme performed in -Meiningen on April 2 to celebrate the Duke's birthday. The complete -breakdown of Bülow's health necessitated his temporary retirement from -his conductor's duties, which were divided on this occasion between -Brahms and Court Capellmeister Franz Mannstädt, appointed to assist -Bülow. Returning by a circuitous route to Vienna after a few days at the -ducal castle, Brahms paid a short visit to Hamburg to take part in -another Brahms programme arranged by the talented young conductor of the -Cecilia Society, Julius Spengel. This was the first of several occasions -on which the master gave testimony of his appreciation of Dr. Spengel's -talents and musicianship by co-operating in the concerts of the society. - -Brahms celebrated his fiftieth birthday by entertaining his friends -Faber, Billroth, and Hanslick at a bachelor supper. He was occupied -during the summer with the completion of a third symphony, on which he -had worked the preceding year, and lived at Wiesbaden in a house that -had belonged to the celebrated painter Ludwig Knaus, in whose former -studio--Brahms' music-room for the nonce--the work was finished. - -It was known to the composer that a delicate elderly lady inhabited the -first-floor of the house of which Frau von Dewitz's flat, where he -lodged, formed an upper story. Every night, therefore, on returning to -his rooms, he took off his boots before going upstairs, and made the -ascent in his socks, so that her rest should not be disturbed. This -anecdote is but one amongst several of the same kind that have been -related to the author by Brahms' intimate associates. Samples of another -variety should not, however, be omitted. - -A private performance of the new symphony, this time arranged for two -pianofortes, was given as usual at Ehrbar's by Brahms and Brüll, and -aroused immense expectations for the future of the work. Amongst the -listeners was a musician who, not having hitherto allowed himself to be -suspected of a partiality for the master's art, expressed his -enthusiastic admiration of the composition. 'Have you had any -conversation with X?' young Mr. Ehrbar asked Brahms; 'he has been -telling me how delighted he is with the symphony.' 'And have you told -him that he very often lies when he opens his mouth?' angrily retorted -the composer, who could never bring himself to submit to the humiliation -of accepting a compliment which he suspected--perhaps unjustly in this -case--of being insincere. - -A terrible rebuff was administered by him on the evening of a first -Gewandhaus performance. It must be owned that Brahms was seldom in his -happiest mood when on a visit to Leipzig; he was well aware that his -music was not appreciated within the official 'ring' there, and -suspiciously resented any well-meant efforts made to ignore this fact. -'And where are you going to lead us to-night, Herr Doctor?' inquired one -of the committee a few minutes before the beginning of the concert, -assuming a conciliatory manner as he smoothed on his white kid gloves; -'to heaven?' 'It is the same to me where you go,' rejoined Brahms. - -The first performance of the Symphony in F major (No. 3) took place in -Vienna at the Philharmonic concert of December 2, under Hans Richter, -who was, according to Hanslick, originally responsible for the name 'the -Brahms Eroica,' by which it has occasionally been called. Whether or not -the suggestion is happy, a saying of the kind, probably uttered on the -impulse of the moment, should not be taken very seriously. - -Nothing of the quiescent autumn mood which we have observed in the -master's chamber music of this period is to be traced in either of his -symphonies, and the third, like its companions, represents him in the -zenith of his energies, working happily in the consciousness of his -absolute command over the resources of his art. Whether it be judged by -its effect as an entire work or studied movement by movement, whether -each movement be listened to as a whole or analyzed into its component -parts, all is found to be without halt of inspiration or flaw in -workmanship. Each theme is striking and pregnant, and, though -contrasting with what precedes it, seems to belong inevitably to the -movement and place in which it occurs, whilst the development of the -thematic material is so masterly that to speak of admiring it seems -almost ridiculous. The last movement closes with a very beautiful and -distinctive Brahms coda. The third symphony is more immediately easy to -follow than the first, and of broader atmosphere than the second. It is -of an essentially objective character, and belongs absolutely to the -domain of pure music. - -The supreme and glorious pre-eminence which the great master had by this -time attained in contemporary estimation naturally made it an object of -competition with concert-givers and directors to announce the earliest -performances of his works, and this was especially the case in the rare -event of a new symphony which succeeded its immediate predecessor after -an interval of six years. Brahms, however, had his own ideas on this -matter, as on every other that he thought important, and after the first -performance of the work in Vienna he sent the manuscript to Joachim in -Berlin, and begged him to conduct the second performance when and where -he liked. This proceeding would hardly have been noteworthy under the -circumstances of intimate friendship which had so long united the two -musicians, had it not been that the old relation between Brahms and -Joachim had been clouded during the past year or two, during which there -had been a cessation of their former affectionate intercourse. When, -therefore, it became known that Joachim, acting on the composer's wish, -proposed to conduct the symphony at one of the subscription concerts of -the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin, so much disappointment and -heart-burning were felt and expressed that Joachim, although he had -already replied in the affirmative to Brahms' request, consented to -write again and ask what his wishes really were. The answer came without -delay, and was clear enough to set the matter quite at rest. Brahms -desired that the performance should be committed unreservedly to the -care of his old friend. - -The symphony was heard for the second time, therefore, on January 4 -under Joachim at Berlin, and was enthusiastically received by all -sections of the public and press. It was given again three times during -the same month in the German imperial capital under the composer's -bâton. - -Detailed description of the triumphant progress of the new work from -town to town is no longer necessary. The composer was overwhelmed with -invitations to conduct it from the manuscript, and Bülow, convalescent -from his illness, and determined not to be outdone in enthusiasm, placed -it twice, as second and fourth numbers, in a Meiningen programme of five -works. On publication, it was performed in all the chief music-loving -towns of Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Russia, Switzerland, and the -United States. - -In an account of a performance of the symphony at a Hamburg Philharmonic -concert under Brahms in December, which followed one under von Bernuth -after three weeks' interval, the critic of the _Correspondenten_ says: - - 'Brahms' interpretation of his works frequently differs so - inconceivably in delicate rhythmic and harmonic accents from - anything to which one is accustomed, that the apprehension of his - intentions could only be entirely possible to another man possessed - of exactly similar sound-susceptibility or inspired by the power of - divination.' - -The author feels a peculiar interest in quoting these lines, which -strikingly corroborate the impression formed by her on hearing this and -other of Brahms' works played under his own direction. - -The publications of 1884 were, besides the third Symphony, Two Songs for -Contralto with Viola and Pianoforte, the second being the 'Virgin's -Cradle Song,' already mentioned as one of the compositions of 1865; two -sets of four-part Songs, the one for accompanied Solo voices, the other -for mixed Chorus _a capella_, and the two books of Songs, Op. 94 and 95. - -At this date Brahms had entered into what we may call the third period -of his activity as a song-writer--one in which he frequently chose texts -that speak of loneliness or death. The wonderful beauty of his settings -of these subjects penetrates the very soul, and by the mere force of its -pathos carries to the hearer the conviction that the composer speaks out -of the feeling of his own heart. Stockhausen, trying the song 'Mit -vierzig Jahren' (Op. 94, No. 1) from the manuscript to the composer's -accompaniment, was so affected during its performance that he could not -at once proceed to the end. Our remarks are, however, by no means -intended to convey the impression that Brahms only or generally chose -poems of a melancholy tendency at this time. - - WITH FORTY YEARS. - - BY FRIEDRICH RÜCKERT (1788-1866). - - With forty years we've gained the mountain's summit, - We stand awhile and look behind; - There we behold the quiet years of childhood - And there the joy of youth we find. - Look once again, and then, with freshened vigour, - Take up thy staff and onward wend! - A mountain-ridge extendeth, broad, before thee, - Not here, but there must thou descend. - No longer, climbing, need'st thou struggle breathless, - The level path will lead thee on; - And then with thee a little downward tending, - Before thou know'st, thy journey's done. - -With the knowledge we have gained of the master's habit of producing his -large works in couples, we are prepared to find him employed this summer -on the composition of a fourth symphony. Avoiding a long journey, he -settled down to his work at Mürz Zuschlag in Styria, not far from the -highest ridge of the Semmering. Hearing soon after his arrival there -that his old friend Misi Reinthaler, now grown up into a young lady, was -leaving home under her mother's care to go through a course of treatment -under a famous Vienna specialist, he wrote to place his rooms in -Carlsgasse at Frau Reinthaler's disposal. The offer was not accepted, -but when the invalid was sufficiently convalescent, he insisted that the -two ladies should come for a few days as his guests to Mürz Zuschlag, -where he took rooms for them near his own lodgings. He went over to see -them also at Vienna, and spent the greater part of a morning showing -them his valuable collection of autographs and other treasures. 'Yes, -these would have been something to give a wife!' was his answer to the -ladies' expressions of delight. Amongst his collection of musical -autographs were two written on different sides of the same sheet of -paper--one of Beethoven, the song 'Ich liebe dich'; the other of -Schubert, part of a pianoforte composition. These, with Brahms' -autograph signature 'Joh. Brahms in April 1872,' written at the bottom -of one of the pages, constitute a unique triplet. The sheet now belongs -to the Gesellschaft library, and is framed within glass. - -The society of Hanslick, who came with his wife to stay near Mürz -Zuschlag for part of the summer, was very acceptable to Brahms. The -departure of his friends at the close of the season, in the company of -some mutual Vienna acquaintances, incited the composer to an act of -courtesy of a kind quite unusual with him, the sequel to which seems to -have caused him almost comical annoyance that found expression in a -couple of notes sent immediately afterwards to Hanslick. - - 'DEAREST FRIEND, - - 'Here I stand with roses and pansies; which means with a basket of - fruit, liqueurs and cakes! You must have travelled through by the - earlier Sunday extra train? I made a good and unusual impression - for politeness at the station! The children are now rejoicing over - the cakes....' - -and, on finding that, mistaking the time of the train, he had arrived a -quarter of an hour late: - - 'How such a stupid thing can spoil one's day and the thought of it - recur to torment one. I hope you do not know this as well as I, who - am for ever preparing for myself such vexatious worry....' - -Later on, writing about other matters, he adds: - - '... I hope Professor Schmidt's ladies do not describe my promenade - with the basket too graphically in Vienna! Otherwise my unspoiled - lady friends may cease to be so unassuming.'[68] - -The journeys of the winter included visits to Bremen and Oldenburg, -during which Hermine Spiess, one of the very favourite younger -interpreters of Brahms' songs, sang dainty selections of them to the -composer's accompaniment, with overwhelming success. The early death of -this gifted artist, soon after her marriage, caused the master, with -whom she was a great favourite, deep and sincere grief. Brahms went also -to Crefeld, where the 'Tafellied,' dedicated on publication 'To the -friends in Crefeld in remembrance of Jan. 28th 1885,' was sung on the -date in question, with some of the new part-songs _a capella_, and other -of the composer's works, at the jubilee of the Crefeld Concert Society. -The manuscript score of the 'Tafellied' is in the possession of Herr -Alwin von Beckerath, to whom it was presented by Brahms with an -affectionate inscription. - -[65] Widmann, p. 43. - -[66] Steiner's 'Johannes Brahms,' i., p. 25. - -[67] Allgeyer's 'Feuerbach': Introduction to the second edition. - -[68] Published by Hanslick in the _Neue Freie Presse_, July 1, 1897. - - - - - CHAPTER XX - 1885-1888 - - 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 Hausmann--Frau Celestine - Truxa--Double Concerto--Marxsen's death--Eugen d'Albert--The Gipsy - Songs--Conrat's translations from the Hungarian--Brahms and - Jenner--The 'Zum rothen Igel'--Ehrbar's asparagus luncheons--Third - Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin. - - -The early part of the year 1885 offers for record no event of unusual -interest to the reader. The greater portion of it was spent by Brahms in -his customary routine in Vienna. He was generally to be seen at the -weekly meetings of the Tonkünstlerverein, a musicians' club founded by -Epstein, Gänsbacher, and others, of which the master had consented to be -named honorary life-president. The Monday evening proceedings included a -short musical programme, sometimes followed by an informal supper. -Brahms did not usually sit in the music-room, but would remain in a -smaller apartment smoking and chatting sociably with friends of either -sex. His arrival always became known at once to the assembled company, -'Brahms is here; Brahms is come!' being passed eagerly from mouth to -mouth. His old love of open-air exercise had not diminished with -increasing years, and the Sunday custom of a long walk in the country -was still kept up. A few friends used to meet in the morning outside the -Café Bauer, opposite the Opera House, and, taking train or tram to the -outskirts of the city, would thence proceed on foot, returning in the -late afternoon. Brahms, nearly always in a good humour on these -occasions, was generally soon ahead of his companions, or leading the -way with the foremost, and, as had usually been the case with him -through life, was looked upon by his friends as the chief occasion of -their meetings, allowed his own way, and admired as a kind of pet -oracle. The excursions always commenced for the season on his return to -Vienna in the autumn, and were continued with considerable regularity -until his departure in the spring. They not infrequently gave -opportunity for the employment of the composer's unfailing readiness of -repartee, as on the occasion of a meeting in the train, on the return -journey, with a learned but unmusical acquaintance of one of the party, -between whom and Brahms an animated conversation arose. 'Will you not -join us one day, Herr Doctor? Next Sunday, perhaps?' asked Brahms. 'I!' -exclaimed the other. 'Saul among the prophets?' 'Na, so you give -yourself royal airs!' instantly rejoined the master. - -The fourth symphony was completed during the summer at Mürz Zuschlag, -where Brahms this year had the advantage of Dr. and Frau Fellinger's -society, and--indispensable for his complete enjoyment of a home -circle--that of their children. Returning one afternoon from a walk, he -found that the house in which he lodged had caught fire, and that his -friends were busily engaged in bringing his papers, and amongst them the -nearly-finished manuscript of the new symphony, into the garden. He -immediately set to work to help in getting the fire under, whilst Frau -Fellinger sat out of doors with either arm outspread on the precious -papers piled on each side of her. Luckily, all serious harm was averted, -and it was soon possible to restore the manuscripts intact to the -composer's apartments. - -Brahms paid a neighbourly call, in the course of the summer, on the -author Rosegger, who was living in his small country house at Krieglach -near Mürz Zuschlag, and tasted the unusual experience of a repulse. -Absorbed in work at the moment when his servant announced 'a strange -gentleman,' Rosegger, without glancing at the card placed beside him, -desired his visitor to 'sit down for a moment.' Conscious only of the -presence of a bearded stranger with a gray overcoat over his shoulder -and a light-coloured umbrella in his hand, he vouchsafed but scant -answer to the trifling remarks with which his caller tried to pave the -way to cordiality, and before long Brahms composedly remarked that he -would be on his legs again, and took leave. It was not till some minutes -after his departure that it occurred to Rosegger to glance at the card, -and he has himself described the feelings of despair with which he read -the words 'Johannes Brahms' staring at him in all the reality of black -on white. Not he alone, but the ladies of his family, were enthusiastic -admirers of the composer's genius. He was so overwhelmed by his mistake -as to be incapable of taking any steps to remedy it, and firmly declined -to yield to the entreaties of his wife and daughter that he would return -the visit and explain matters to Brahms. He published an amusing account -of the misadventure in the year 1894 in an issue of the _Heimgarten_. -Perhaps it may have fallen into the master's hands. - -The honour not only of the first, but of several subsequent early -performances of the Symphony in E minor, fell to the Meiningen -orchestra. The work was announced for the third subscription concert of -the season 1885-86, and shortly beforehand the score and parts of the -third and fourth movements were sent by the composer to Meiningen for -correction at a preliminary rehearsal under Bülow. Three listeners were, -by Bülow's invitation, present on the occasion--the Landgraf of Hesse; -Richard Strauss, the now famous composer, who had succeeded Mannstädt as -second conductor of the Meiningen orchestra; and Frederic Lamond. The -lapse of another day or so brought Brahms himself with the first and -second movements, and the first public performance of the work took -place on October 25. - -That the new symphony was enthusiastically received on the occasion goes -almost without saying. Persevering but unsuccessful efforts were made by -the audience to obtain a repetition of the third movement, and the close -of the work was followed by the emphatic demonstration incident to a -great success. - -The work was repeated under Bülow's direction at the following Meiningen -concert of November 1, and was conducted by the composer throughout a -three weeks' tour on which he started with Bülow and his orchestra -immediately afterwards, and which included the towns Siegen, Dortmund, -Essen, Elberfeld, Düsseldorf, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam, the Hague, -Arnheim, Crefeld, Bonn, and Cologne. A performance at Wiesbaden -followed, and the work was heard for the first time in Vienna at the -Philharmonic concert of January 17, 1886, under Richter. This occasion -was celebrated by a dinner given by Billroth at the Hôtel Sacher, the -guests invited to meet the composer being Richter, Hanslick, Goldmark, -Faber, Door, Epstein, Ehrbar, Fuchs, Kalbeck, and Dömpke. - -A new and important work by Brahms could hardly fail to obtain a warm -reception in Vienna at a period when the composer could look back to -thirty years' residence in the imperial city with which his name had -become as closely associated as those of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and -Schubert; but though the symphony was applauded by the public and -praised by all but the inveterately hostile section of the press, it did -not reach the hearts of the Vienna audience in the same unmistakable -manner as its two immediate predecessors, both of which had, as we have -seen, made a more striking impression on a first hearing in Austria than -the first Symphony in C minor. Strangely enough, the fourth symphony at -once obtained some measure of real appreciation in Leipzig, where the -first had been far more successful than the second and third. It was -performed under the composer at the Gewandhaus concert of February 18. -The account given of the occasion by the _Leipziger Nachrichten_ is, -perhaps, the more satisfactory since our old friend Dörffel, who might -possibly have been suspected of partiality, had long since retired from -the staff of the journal. Bernhard Vögl, his second successor, says: - - '... The reception must, we think, have made amends to Brahms for - former ones, which, in Bülow's opinion, were too cool. After each - movement the hall resounded with tumultuous and long-continued - applause, and, at the conclusion of the work, the composer was - repeatedly called forward.... The finale is certainly the most - original of the movements, and furnishes more complete argument - than has before been brought forward for the opinion of those who - see in Brahms the modern Sebastian Bach. The movement is not only - constructed on the form displayed in Bach's Chaconne for violin, - but is filled with Bach's spirit. It is built up with astounding - mastery upon the eight notes, - - [Music: Excerpt from the fourth movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 4 - in E minor, Op. 98.] - - and in such a manner that its contrapuntal learning remains - subordinate to its poetic contents.... It can be compared with no - former work of Brahms and stands alone in the symphonic literature - of the present and the past.' - -A still more triumphant issue attended the production of the symphony -under Brahms at a concert of the Hamburg Cecilia Society on April 9. -Josef Sittard, who had recently been appointed musical critic to the -_Hamburger Correspondenten_, a post he has held to the present day, -wrote: - - 'To-day we abide by what we have affirmed for years past in musical - journals; that Brahms is the greatest instrumental composer since - Beethoven. Power, passion, depth of thought, exalted nobility of - melody and form, are the qualities which form the artistic sign - manual of his creations. The E minor (fourth) Symphony is - distinguished from the second and third principally by the rigorous - and even grim earnestness which, though in a totally different way, - mark the first. More than ever does the composer follow out his - ideas to their conclusion, and this unbending logic makes the - immediate understanding of the work difficult. But the oftener we - have heard it, the more clearly have its great beauties, the depth, - energy and power of its thoughts, the clearness of its classic - form, revealed themselves to us. In the contrapuntal treatment of - its themes, in richness of harmony and in the art of - instrumentation, it seems to as superior to the second and third, - these, perhaps, have the advantage of greater melodic beauty; a - guarantee of popularity. In depth, power and originality of - conception, however, the fourth symphony takes its place by the - side of the first....' - -After an interesting discussion of the several movements, the writer -adds: 'In a word, the symphony is of monumental significance.' - -Brahms' fourth symphony, produced when he was over fifty, is, in the -opinion of most musicians, unsurpassed by any other achievement of his -genius. It has during the past twenty years been growing slowly into -general knowledge and favour, and will, it may be safely predicted, -become still more deeply rooted in its place amongst the composer's most -widely-valued works. The second movement, in the opinion of the late -Philipp Spitta, 'does not find its equal in the symphonic world'; and -the fourth, written in 'Passacaglia' form, is the most astonishing -illustration achieved even by Brahms himself of the limitless capability -of variation form, in which he is pre-eminent.[69] - -It is with something of a mournful feeling that we find ourselves at the -close of our enumeration of the master's four greatest instrumental -works. Enough, we may hope, has been said to indicate that any -comparison of the symphonies as inferior or superior is impossible, for -the reason that each, while perfectly fulfilling its own particular -destiny, is quite different from all the others, and such natural -preference as may be felt by this or that listener for either must be -considered as purely personal. The present writer may, perhaps, be -allowed to confess that, with all joy in the dainty second and the -magnificent third and fourth--emphatically the fourth--neither appeals -to her quite so strongly as the first. There is here a quality of youth -in the intensity of the soaring imagination that seems to search the -universe, which, presented as it is with the wealth of resource that was -at the command of the mature composer, could not by its nature be other -than unique. The presence of this very quality may be the reason why the -first symphony suffers even more lamentably than its companions from the -dull, cold, cautious, 'classical' rendering which Brahms' orchestral -works receive at the hands of some conductors, who seem unable to -realize that a composer who founds his works on certain definite and -traditional principles of structure does not thereby change his nature, -or in any degree renounce the free exercise of his poetic gifts. - -Perhaps the present is as good an opportunity as may occur for passing -mention of a newspaper episode of the eighties, which was much talked of -for a few years, but which, though it may have caused Brahms annoyance, -could not possibly at this period of his career have had any more -serious consequence so far as he was concerned. - -Hugo Wolf, in 1884 a young aspirant to fame, seeking recognition but -finding none, poor, gifted, disappointed, weak in health, highly -nervous, without influential friends, accepted an opportunity of -increasing his miserably small means of subsistence by becoming the -musical critic of the _Salon Blatt_, a weekly society paper of Vienna, -and soon made for himself an unenviable notoriety by his persistent -attacks upon Brahms' compositions. The affair would not now demand -mention in a biography of our master if it were not that the posthumous -recognition afforded to Wolf's art gives some interest, though not of an -agreeable nature, to this association of his name with that of Brahms. -For the benefit of those readers who may wish to study the matter -further, it may be added that Wolf's criticisms have been republished -since his death. For ourselves, having done what was, perhaps, incumbent -on us by referring to the matter, we shall adopt what we believe would -have been Brahms' desire, by allowing it, so far as these pages are -concerned, to follow others of the kind to oblivion. - -The summer of 1886 was the first of the three seasons passed by Brahms -at Thun, of which Widmann has written so charming an account. He rented -the entire first-floor of a house opposite the spot where the river Aare -flows out of the lake, the ground-floor being occupied by the owner, who -kept a little haberdashery shop. According to his general custom, he -dined in fine weather in the garden of some inn, occasionally alone, but -oftener in the company of a friend or friends. Every Saturday he went to -Bern to remain till Monday or longer with the Widmanns, who, like other -friends, found him a most considerate and easily satisfied guest, though -his exceptional energy of body and mind often made it exhausting work to -keep up with him. - - 'His week-end visits were,' says Widmann, 'high festivals and times - of rejoicing for me and mine; days of rest they certainly were not, - for the constantly active mind of our guest demanded similar - wakefulness from all his associates and one had to pull one's self - well together to maintain sufficient freshness to satisfy the - requirements of his indefatigable vitality.... I have never seen - anyone who took such fresh, genuine and lasting interest in the - surroundings of life as Brahms, whether in objects of nature, art, - or even industry. The smallest invention, the improvement of some - article for household use, every trace, in short, of practical - ingenuity gave him real pleasure. And nothing escaped his - observation.... He hated bicycles because the flow of his ideas was - so often disturbed by the noiseless rushing past, or the sudden - signal, of these machines, and also because he thought the - trampling movement of the rider ugly. He was, however, glad to live - in the age of great inventions and could not sufficiently admire - the electric light, Edison's phonographs, etc. He was equally - interested in the animal world. I always had to tell him anew about - the family customs of the bears in the Bern bear-pits before which - we often stood together. Indeed, subjects of conversation seemed - inexhaustible during his visits.'[70] - -Brahms' ordinary costume, the same here as elsewhere, was chosen quite -without regard to appearances. Mere lapse of time must occasionally -have compelled him to wear a new coat, but it is safe to conclude that -his feelings suffered discomposure on the rare occurrence of such a -crisis. Neckties and white collars were reserved as special marks of -deference to conventionality. During his visits to Thun he used on wet -Saturdays to appear at Bern wearing 'an old brown-gray plaid fastened -over his chest with an immense pin, which completed his strange -appearance.' Many were the books borrowed from Widmann at the beginning, -and brought back at the end, of the week, carried by him in a leather -bag slung over his shoulder. Most of them were standard works; he was -not devoted to modern literature on the whole, though he read with -pleasure new and really good books of history and travel, and was fond -of Gottfried Keller's novels and poems. Over engravings and photographs -of Italian works of art he would pore for hours, never weary of -discussing memories and predilections with his friend. - -Visits to the Bern summer theatre, a short mountain tour with Widmann, -an introduction to Ernst von Wildenbruch, whose dramas the master liked, -and with whom he now found himself in personal sympathy--events such as -these served to diversify the summer season of 1886, which was made -musically noteworthy by the composition of a group of chamber works, the -Sonatas in A and F major for pianoforte with violin and violoncello -respectively, and the Trio in C minor for pianoforte and strings. The -Sonatas were performed for the first time in public in Vienna; severally -by Brahms and Hellmesberger, at the Quartet concert of December 2, and -by Brahms and Hausmann at Hausmann's concert of November 24; the Trio -was introduced at Budapest about the same time by Brahms, Hubay, and -Popper, in each case from the manuscript. - -Detailed discussion of these works is superfluous; two of them, at all -events, are amongst the best known of Brahms' compositions. The Sonata -for pianoforte and violoncello in F is the least familiar of the group, -but assuredly not because it is inferior to its companions. It is, -indeed, one of the masterpieces of Brahms' later concise style. Each -movement has a remarkable individuality of its own, whilst all are -unmistakably characteristic of the composer. The first is broad and -energetic, the second profoundly touching, the third vehemently -passionate--in the Brahms' signification of the word, be it noted, which -means that the emotions are reached through the intellectual -imagination--the fourth written from beginning to end in a spirit of -vivacity and fun. The work was tried in the first instance at Frau -Fellinger's house. 'Are you expecting Hausmann?' Brahms inquired -carelessly of this lady soon after his return in the autumn. Frau -Fellinger, suspecting that something lay behind the question, -telegraphed to the great violoncellist, who usually stayed at her house -when in Vienna, to come as soon as possible, if only for a day. He duly -appeared, and the new sonata was played by Brahms and himself on the -evening of his arrival. They performed it again the day before the -concert above recorded, at a large party at Billroth's. - -The last movement of the beautiful Sonata in A for pianoforte and violin -is sometimes criticised as being almost too concise. The present writer -confesses that she always feels it to be so, and one day confided this -sentiment to Joachim, who did not agree with her, but said that the coda -was originally considerably longer. 'Brahms told me he had cut a good -deal away; he aimed always at condensation.' - -Dr. Widmann allows us to publish an English version of a poem written by -him on this work, the original of which is published in the appendix to -his 'Brahms Recollections.' We have desired to place it before our -English-speaking readers, not only because it coincides remarkably with -what we related in our early chapters of the delicate, fanciful tastes -of the youthful Hannes, but because it gave pleasure to the Brahms of -fifty-three, and even of sixty-three, and thus seems to illustrate the -fact on which we have insisted, that if in any case then in our -master's, the child was father to the man. Only a year before his death -the great composer wrote to Widmann to beg for one or two more copies of -the poem, which had been printed for private circulation. - - THE THUN SONATA. - - POEM ON THE SONATA IN A FOR PIANOFORTE AND VIOLIN, OP. 100, - BY JOHANNES BRAHMS, - - WRITTEN BY J. V. WIDMANN. - - There where the Aare's waters gently glide - From out the lake and flow towards the town, - Where pleasant shelter spreading trees provide, - Amidst the waving grass I laid me down; - And sleeping softly on that summer day, - I saw a wondrous vision as I lay. - - Three knights rode up on proudly stepping steeds, - Tiny as elves, but with the mien of kings, - And spake to me: 'We come to search the meads, - To seek a treasure here, of precious things - Amongst the fairest; wilt thou help us trace - A new-born child, a child of heav'nly race?' - - 'And who are ye?' I, dreaming, made reply; - 'Knights of the golden meadows' then they said, - 'That at the foot of yonder Niesen[71] lie; - And in our ancient castles many a maid - Hath listened to the greeting of our strings, - Long mute and passed amid forgotten things. - - 'But lately tones were heard upon the lake, - A sound of strings whose like we never knew, - So David played, perhaps, for Saul's dread sake, - Soothing the monarch curtained from his view; - It reached us as it softly swelled and sank, - And drew us, filled with longing, to this bank. - - 'Then help us search, for surely from this place, - This meadow by the river, came the sound; - Help us then here the miracle to trace, - That we may offer homage when 'tis found. - Sleeps under flow'rs the new-born creature rare? - Or is it floating in the evening air?' - - But ere they ceased, a sudden rapid twirl - Ruffled the waters, and, before our eyes, - A fairy boat from out the wavelet's whirl - Floated up stream, guided by dragon-flies; - Within it sat a sweet-limbed, fair-haired may, - Singing as to herself in ecstasy. - - 'To ride on waters clear and cool is sweet, - For clear as deep my being's living source; - To open worlds where joy and sorrow meet, - Each flowing pure and full in mingling course; - Go on, my boat, upstream with happy cheer, - Heaven is reposing on the tranquil mere.' - - So sang the fairy child and they that heard - Owned, by their swelling hearts, the music's might, - The knights had only tears, nor spake a word, - Welling from pain that thrilled them with delight; - But when the skiff had vanished from their eyes, - The eldest, pointing, said in tender wise: - - 'Thou beauteous wonder of the boat, farewell, - Sweet melody, revealed to us to-day; - We that with slumb'ring minnesingers dwell, - Bid thee Godspeed, thou guileless stranger fay; - Our land is newly consecrate in thee - That rang of old with fame of minstrelsy. - - 'Now we may sleep again amongst our dead, - The harper's holy spirit is awake, - And as the evening glory, purple-red, - Shineth upon our Alps and o'er our lake, - And yet on distant mountain sheds its light, - Throughout the earth this song will wing its flight. - - 'Yet, though subduing many a list'ning throng, - In stately town, in princely hall it sound, - To this our land it ever will belong, - For here on flowing river it was found.' - Fervent and glad the minnesinger spake; - 'Yes!' cried my heart--and then I was awake. - -Whilst our master had been living through the spring and summer months -in the enchanted world of his imagination, coming out of it only for -brief intervals of sojourn in earth's pleasant places amidst the -companionship of chosen friends, certain hard, commonplace realities of -the workaday world, which had arisen earlier at home in Vienna, were -still awaiting a satisfactory solution. The death of the occupier of the -third-floor flat of No. 4, Carlsgasse, the last remaining member of the -family with whom Brahms had lodged for fourteen or fifteen years, had -confronted him with the necessity of choosing between several -alternatives almost equally disagreeable to him, concerning which it is -only necessary to say that he had avoided the annoyance of a removal by -taking on the entire dwelling direct from the landlord, and had escaped -the disturbance of having to replace the furniture of his rooms by -accepting the offer of friends to lend him sufficient for his absolute -needs. Arrangements and all necessary changes were made during his -absence. To Frau Fellinger Brahms had entrusted the keys of the flat and -of his rooms, which under her directions were brought into apple-pie -order by the time of his return, the drawers being tidied, and a list of -the contents of each neatly drawn up on a piece of cardboard, so that -everything should be ready to his hand. The greatest difficulty, -however, still remained. Who was to keep the rooms in order and see to -the very few of Brahms' daily requirements which he was not in the habit -of looking after himself? His coffee, as we know, he always prepared at -a very early hour in the morning, and he was kept provided with a -regular supply of the finest Mocha by a lady friend at Marseilles. -Dinner, afternoon coffee, and often supper, were taken away from home. -The master now declared he would have no one in the flat. To as many -visitors as he felt disposed to admit he could himself open the door, -whilst the cleaning and tidying of the rooms could be done by the -'Hausmeisterin,' an old woman occupying a room in the courtyard, and -responsible for the cleaning of the general staircase, etc. In vain Frau -Fellinger contested the point. Brahms was inflexible, and this kind lady -apparently withdrew her opposition to his plan, though remaining quietly -on the look-out for an opportunity of securing more suitable -arrangements. By-and-by it presented itself. In Frau Celestine Truxa, -the widow of a journalist, whose family party consisted of two young -sons and an old aunt, Frau Fellinger felt that she saw a most desirable -tenant for the Carlsgasse flat, and after a renewed attack on the -master, whose arguments, founded on the immaculate purity of his rooms -under the old woman's care, she irretrievably damaged by lifting a sofa -cushion and laying bare a collection of dust, which she declared would -soon develop into something worse, he was so far shaken as to say that -if she would make inquiries for him he would consider her views. Frau -Fellinger wisely abstained from further discussion, but after a few days -Frau Truxa herself, having been duly advised to open the matter to -Brahms with diplomatic sang-froid, went in person to apply for the -dwelling. After her third ring at the door-bell, the door was opened by -the master himself, who started in dismay at seeing a strange lady -standing in front of him. - -'I have come to see the flat,' said Frau Truxa. - -'What!' cried Brahms. - -'I have heard there is an empty flat here, and have come to look at it,' -responded Frau Truxa indifferently; 'but perhaps it is not to let?' - -A moment's pause, and the composer's suspicious expression relaxed. - -'Frau Dr. Fellinger mentioned the circumstances to me,' she continued, -'and I thought they might suit me.' - -By this time Brahms had become sufficiently reassured to show the rooms -and to listen, though without remark, to a brief description of Frau -Truxa's family and of the circumstances in which she found herself. - -'Perhaps, Dr. Brahms, you will consider the matter,' she concluded, 'and -communicate with me if you think further of it. If I hear nothing more -from you, I shall consider the matter at an end.' - -After about a week, during which Frau Truxa kept her own confidence, her -maid came one day to tell her a gentleman had called to see her. Being -engaged at the moment, she asked her aunt to ascertain his business, but -the old lady returned immediately with a frightened look. - -'I don't know what to think!' she exclaimed; 'there is a strange-looking -man walking about in the next room measuring the furniture with a tape!' - -'The things will all go in!' exclaimed the master as Frau Truxa hurried -to receive him. - -The upshot was that the master gave up the tenancy of the flat, -returning to his old irresponsible position as lodger, whilst Frau -Truxa, bringing her household with her, stepped into the position of his -former landlady, thereby giving Brahms cause to be grateful for the -remainder of his life for Frau Fellinger's wise firmness. He was, says -Frau Truxa, perfectly easy to get on with; all he desired was to be let -alone. He was extremely orderly and neat in his ways, and expected the -things scattered about his room to be dusted and kept tidy, but was -vexed if he found the least trifle at all displaced--even if his glasses -were turned the wrong way--and, without making direct allusion to the -subject, would manage to show that he had noticed it. Observing, after -she had been a little time in the flat, that he always rearranged the -things returned from the laundress after they had been placed in their -drawer, she asked him why he did so. 'Only,' he said, 'because perhaps -it is better that those last sent back should be put at the bottom, then -they all get worn alike.' A glove or other article requiring a little -mending would be placed carelessly at the top of a drawer left open as -if by accident. The next day he would observe to Frau Truxa, 'I found my -glove mended last night; I wonder who can have done it!' and on her -replying, 'I did it, Herr Doctor,' would answer, 'You? How very kind!' - -Frau Truxa came to respect and honour the composer more and more the -longer he lived in her house. She made his peculiarities her study, and -after a short time understood his little signs, and was able to supply -his requirements as they arose without being expressly asked to do so. -It is almost needless to say that he took great interest in her two -boys, and once, when she was summoned away from Vienna to the sick-bed -of her father, begged that the maid-servant might be instructed to give -all her attention to the children during their mother's absence, even if -his rooms were neglected. 'I can take care of myself, but suppose -something were to happen to the children whilst the girl was engaged for -me!' Every night whilst Frau Truxa was away, the master himself looked -in on the boys to assure himself of their being safe in bed. For the -old aunt he always had a pleasant passing word. - -The fourth Symphony and two books of Songs were published in 1886, and -the three new works of chamber music, Op. 99, 100, 101, in 1887. Of the -songs we would select for particular mention the wonderfully beautiful -setting of Heine's verses: - - 'Death is the cool night, - Life is the sultry day,' - -Op. 96, No. 1, and Nos. 1 and 2 of Op. 97. - -Brahms' Italian journey in the spring of 1887 was made in the company of -Simrock and Kirchner. The following year he travelled in Widmann's -society, visiting Verona, Bologna, Rimini, Ancona, Loretto, Rome, and -Turin. Widmann sees in Brahms' spiritual kinship with the masters of the -Italian Renaissance the chief secret of his love for Italy. - - 'Their buildings, their statues, their pictures were his delight - and when one witnessed the absorbed devotion with which he - contemplated their works, or heard him admire in the old masters a - trait conspicuous in himself, their conscientious perfection of - detail ... even where it could hardly be noticeable to the ordinary - observer, one could not help instituting the comparison between - himself and them.' - -Brahms had an interview when on this journey with the now famous Italian -composer Martucci, who displayed a thorough familiarity with the works -of the German master. - -Amongst the friends and acquaintances whom the composer met at Thun -during his second and third summers there were the Landgraf of Hesse, -Hanslick, Gottfried Keller, Professor Bächthold, Hermine Spiess and her -sister, Gustav Wendt, the Hegars, Max Kalbeck, Steiner, Claus Groth, -etc. One day, as he had started for a walk, he was stopped by a -stranger, who asked if he knew where Dr. Brahms lived. 'He lives there,' -replied the master, pointing to the haberdasher's shop. 'Do you know if -he is at home?' 'That I cannot tell you,' was the reply. 'But go and -ask in the shop; you will certainly be able to find out there.' The -gentleman followed this advice, sent his card up, and received the -answer that the Doctor was at home, and would be pleased to see him. To -his surprise, on ascending the stairs, he found his newly-formed -acquaintance waiting for him at the top. - -[Illustration: BRAHMS' LODGINGS NEAR THUN. - -_Photograph by Moegle, Thun._] - -The rumour revived in the summer of 1887 that Brahms was engaged on an -opera. This came about, perhaps, from his intimacy with Widmann. 'I am -composing the entr'actes,' he jestingly replied to the Landgraf's -question as to whether the report had any foundation. As a matter of -fact, the subject of opera was not mentioned between the composer and -his friend at this time. - -The works which really occupied Brahms during the summer of 1887 were -the double Concerto for violin and violoncello, with orchestral -accompaniment, and the 'Gipsy Songs.' - -The Concerto was performed privately, immediately on its completion, in -the 'Louis Quinze' room of the Baden-Baden Kurhaus. Brahms conducted, -and the solo parts were performed by Joachim and Hausmann. Amongst the -listeners were Frau Schumann and her eldest daughter, Rosenhain, -Lachner, the violoncellist Hugo Becker, and Gustav Wendt. The work was -heard in public for the first time in Cologne on October 15, Brahms -conducting, and Joachim and Hausmann playing the solos as before; and -the next performances, carried out under the same unique opportunities -for success, were in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, and Basle, on November 17, -18, and 20. - -In the autumn of this year one of the few remaining figures linked with -the most cherished associations of Brahms' early youth passed away. -Marxsen died on November 17, 1887, at the age of eighty-one, having -retained to the end almost unimpaired vigour of his mental faculties. -The last great pleasure of his life was associated with his beloved art. -In spite of great bodily weakness, he managed to be present a week -before his death at a concert of the Hamburg Philharmonic Society to -hear a performance of the 'ninth' Symphony. 'I am here for the last -time,' he said, pressing Sittard's hand; and he passed peacefully away -fourteen days later. - -A few years previously his artistic jubilee had been celebrated in -Hamburg, and his dear Johannes had surprised him with the proof-sheets -of a set of one hundred Variations composed long ago by Marxsen, not -with a view to publication, but as a practical illustration of the -inexhaustible possibilities contained in the art of thematic -development. Brahms, who happened to see the manuscript in Marxsen's -room during one of his subsequent visits to Hamburg, was so strongly -interested in it that in the end Marxsen gave it him, with leave to do -as he should like with it after his death. The parcel of proof-sheets -was accompanied by an affectionate letter, in which Brahms begged -forgiveness for having anticipated this permission and yielded to his -desire of placing the work within general reach during his master's -lifetime; and perhaps no jubilee honour of which the old musician was -the recipient filled him with such lively joy as was caused by this -tribute. Marxsen's name as a composer is, indeed, now forgotten without -chance of revival, but his memory will live gloriously in the way he -would have chosen, carried through the years by the hand that wrote the -great composer's acknowledgment to his teacher on the title-page of the -Concerto in B flat. - -Four more performances from the manuscript of the double concerto of -interest in our narrative remain to be chronicled--those of the Leipzig -Gewandhaus, under Brahms, on January 1, 1888; of the Berlin Philharmonic -Society, under Bülow, of February 6; and of the London Symphony -Concerts, under Henschel, on February 15 and 21. The work, published in -time for the autumn season, was given in Vienna at the Philharmonic -concert of December 23 under Richter. On all these occasions the solos -were played, as before, by Joachim and Hausmann. - -Bülow, having at this time resigned his post at Meiningen, had entered -on a period of activity as conductor in some of the northern cities of -Germany, and particularly in Hamburg and Berlin. His future programmes, -in which our master's works were well represented, though not with the -conspicuous prominence that had been possible at Meiningen, do not fall -within the scope of these pages, since, with the mention of the double -concerto, the enumeration of Brahms' orchestral works is complete. -Bülow's successor at Meiningen, Court Capellmeister Fritz Steinbach, -carried on the traditions and preferences of the little Thuringian -capital as he found them, until his removal to Cologne a year or two -ago, and has become especially appreciated as a conductor of the works -of Brahms, whose personal friendship and artistic confidence he enjoyed -in a high degree. - -The name of Eugen d'Albert, whose great gifts and attainments were -warmly recognised by Brahms, should not be omitted from our pages, -though detailed account of his relations with the master is outside -their limits. D'Albert's fine performances of the pianoforte concertos -helped to make these works familiar to many Continental audiences, and -certainly contributed, during the second half of the eighties, to the -better understanding of the great composer which has gradually come to -prevail at Leipzig. - -But little needs to be said about the double concerto. This fine work, -which may be regarded as in some sort a successor to the double and -triple concertos of Mozart and Beethoven, exhibits all the power of -construction, the command of resource, the logical unity of idea, -characteristic of Brahms' style, whilst its popularity has been hindered -by the same cause that has retarded that of the pianoforte concertos; -the solo parts do not stand out sufficiently from the orchestral -accompaniment to give effective opportunity for the display of -virtuosity, in the absence of which no performer, appearing before a -great public as the exponent of an unfamiliar work for an accompanied -solo instrument, has much chance of sustaining the lively interest of -his audience in the composition. Of the three movements of the double -concerto, the first is especially interesting to musicians, whilst the -second, a beautiful example of Brahms' expressive lyrical muse, appeals -equally to less technically prepared listeners. On the copy of the work -presented by Brahms to Joachim the words are inscribed in the composer's -handwriting: 'To him for whom it was written.' - -Widely contrasted in every respect was the other new work of 1887, -introduced to the private circle of Vienna musicians at the last meeting -for the season of the Tonkünstlerverein in April, 1888. The eleven -four-part 'Gipsy Songs,' published in the course of the year as -Op. 103, were sung from the manuscript by Frãulein Walter, Frau -Gomperz-Bettelheim, Gustav Walter, and Weiglein of the imperial opera, -to the composer's accompaniment. Brahms obtained the texts of this -characteristic and attractive work from a collection of twenty-five -'Hungarian Folk-songs' translated into German by Hugo Conrat, and -published in Budapest, with their original melodies set by Zoltan Nagy -for mezzo-soprano or baritone, with the addition of pianoforte -accompaniment. Conrat's translations have been done in masterly fashion. -Literal as far as possible, slight modifications of the original have -been admitted here and there in order to obtain a natural flow of the -lines; and to some single-strophe songs, including Nos. 3 and 4 of -Brahms' work, a second verse, developing the idea of the first, has been -added. The German texts, in which the national Hungarian character is -admirably preserved, appealed irresistibly to our master, and are well -adapted to the four-part setting with pianoforte accompaniment which had -proved so successful in the two books of Liebeslieder Walzer. - -One of the earliest public performances of the Gipsy Songs was that of -the Monday Popular concert of November 26 by Mr. and Mrs. Henschel, Miss -Lena Little, and Mr. Shakespeare, with Miss Fanny Davies as pianist. -They were repeated at the Saturday Popular of December 1, and again on -Monday and Saturday, December 22 and 28. The first public performance in -Vienna--by the executants who had already given the work privately--took -place at Walter's concert in the Börsendorfer Hall on January 18, 1889. - -The Gipsy Songs had an immediate widespread, and enormous success, and -were soon heard in all parts of the musical world. They were sung in -Paris in a French translation, and many times in Budapest, where the -composer's art had become popular, in Hungarian retranslated from -Conrat's version. Great though their popularity has remained, however, -it has not equalled that of the Liebeslieder, and of these the demand -for the first book has continued to exceed that for the second. - -A graphic picture of Brahms as he was in the year 1888 and onwards is to -be found in an article by Dr. Jenner.[72] This gentleman made the -master's acquaintance under particularly interesting circumstances. When -still a very young man, resident at Kiel, and a favourite of Claus -Groth, the manuscripts of some of his songs came under Brahms' notice, -and so much engaged his sympathy as to induce him to say he would be -happy to receive the composer during his visit to Leipzig on the -occasion of the above-recorded performance of the new double concerto. - - 'My friend Julius Spengel joined me in Hamburg and we went together - to Berlin,' says Dr. Jenner. 'There I was present for the first - time at a Joachim Quartet evening. Immediately after the concert we - travelled with the Quartet to Leipzig, arriving in the middle of - the night at the Hôtel Hauffe. Never shall I forget the feeling - that came over me as I read in the visitors' list, "Johannes Brahms - from Vienna." He had already retired. By a strange chance I was - shown into the room next his and as I entered it a sound of healthy - snoring proclaimed the proximity of the mighty one. Moving about - quietly, I went to rest with a strange mixed feeling of awe, pride - and anxiety. When I came down the next morning Brahms had already - breakfasted. Comfortably smoking, he was reading the papers.... He - received me with pleasant, simple kindness, intimated that he knew - why I had come, and took pains to help me over my first - embarrassment and shyness by every now and then putting to me some - short, direct question, so that I was soon convinced of his - good-nature and felt unlimited confidence in him.... - - 'It was past 3 o'clock when we returned that night to the Hôtel - Hauffe. How delighted but also astonished I was when Brahms, as he - said good-night, announced that he would expect me in his room at - 7 o'clock in the morning to speak to me about my compositions. I - presented myself punctually at the appointed time and found him at - breakfast, fresh, rosy and the picture of equanimity.... - - 'I had brought a trio for pianoforte and strings, a chorus with - orchestral accompaniment, unaccompanied choruses for women's - voices, and songs; and found that he had made himself acquainted - with them down to the smallest detail, and, indeed, later he never - looked through work with me which he had not thoroughly examined - beforehand. After a few introductory remarks, in which he said that - he had formed a generally favourable impression of my compositions, - he gave me back the accompanied chorus with the words "Pity for the - beautiful little poem." It was Claus Groth's "Wenn ein müder Leib." - The _a capella_ choruses met with the same fate; I received them - back with the remark "Such things are very difficult to make...."' - -For the sequel the reader must be referred to the article itself, which -amusingly describes the tranquil and ruthless methods by which the -master reduced his young friend to the verge of despair. All ended well, -however, and the middle of February saw the arrival in Vienna of Herr -Jenner and his introduction to Mandyczewski, under whom he was to go -through a course of study in strict counterpoint, whilst his work in -free composition was to be carried on under the master's personal -supervision. After making Mandyczewski's acquaintance, - - 'I dined with Brahms at the "Zum Rothen Igel" and afterwards he - went with me to find a lodging, giving preference to the old - houses. Whilst we were on this expedition, he took every - opportunity of making me acquainted with the sacred places of the - city. Before one house it was "This is the Auge Gottes," before - another "Look, Figaro was written there." At length a suitable room - was found near his own dwelling. "The young man likes music" said - Brahms to the landlady, "will he be able to hear a little - pianoforte playing or singing here sometimes?" This she could not - offer. "Never mind, it does not matter." Then he gave me one of his - coffee-machines, plates, cups, forks, knives and spoons, so that I - was comfortably settled the first day. The use of his library was - at my disposal; his purse also. I could have as much money as I - needed from him, but I was never obliged to take any and never did - so.... - - 'I think with deep melancholy of the glorious evenings when - Rottenberg and I sat alone with him in the low back room of the - Igel and the silent Brahms thawed and showed us glimpses of a great - and strong soul. But he never spoke on such occasions of his works, - very rarely of himself and his life. I have, indeed, often had the - good fortune of hearing him speak of himself whilst he was giving - me a lesson; it was nearly always with some excitement. I was - unfortunately obliged to give up the pleasure of dining with him - every day during my second winter, as the Igel was too dear for me. - Brahms always declared it was the cheapest house in Vienna and in - fact he understood so well how to choose that he always had to pay - less than I and yet got a better dinner. He was quite - extraordinarily moderate in his daily life; 70-80 kreuzers was the - most that he spent for his dinner and this included a glass of - Pilsener beer or a quarter of a litre of wine. In the evening he - drank but little more. It is only because the contrary has been so - often affirmed that I think it my duty to tell the truth in such - detail.' - -The old-fashioned restaurant Zum Rothen Igel, where Brahms was for many -years a 'Stammgast'--_i.e._, a daily customer--is situated in a corner -of the Wildpret Markt close to the Augustinestrasse. Brahms did not -frequent the regular dining-room of the house, but took his dinner in a -low, dark, vaulted chamber at the back, on the ground-floor, ordinarily -used by waiters, coachmen, and similar guests. Here, at a table near a -door leading to a small, gloomy courtyard, many a distinguished guest, -the Landgraf of Hesse, Joachim, and many another, has partaken in our -master's company of the homely but well-cooked dishes that he preferred. -In fact, but few prominent musical visitors to Vienna quitted the -imperial city without making the acquaintance, under Brahms' auspices, -of the dingy apartment in the Wildpret Markt now called 'the Brahms -room' and decorated with a photograph of the master. He was very often -joined at his mid-day meal by resident friends and acquaintances, and -often supped at the Igel after a concert with a party of musicians. -Amongst those most frequently seen with him were his old friends Epstein -and Door and a circle of the young men in whom he took an interest; at -the date now reached by our narrative, Mandyczewski and Rottenberg were -his almost daily companions. If he supped alone at the Igel, he -preferred to take his place in a corner behind the house-door, which was -screened from the taproom by a red curtain and was just large enough to -hold a table and bench, occupied in slack hours by the manager. During -the short time that the weather permitted, he dined, after his return to -Vienna at the beginning of October, in the 'garden'--_i.e._, at one of -the two or three tables placed outside the house, and flanked by large -pots of ever-greens which were carried away when the days became cold. - -During the last ten years of his life Brahms allowed himself to accept -more invitations than formerly to dine or sup with one and another of -the small group of families forming his immediate circle, and when -invited out he liked, and even expected, to be asked to a good table and -to have good wine put before him. He retained the notion, universal in a -former generation, but now out of date, that it was incumbent on a -bidden guest, not only to appreciate, but to show appreciation, of the -hospitality of his host and hostess. 'There are people,' he used to say, -'who are afraid of showing that they like a good dinner.' Brahms was -certainly not one of these. He was prepared to do ample justice to the -recherché cookery and excellent wines with which his friends liked to -regale him, but he was at no period of his life either a glutton or a -wine-bibber, and, indeed, never varied from the abstemious habits which -the early circumstances of his life had made incumbent on him as a young -man. - -One of the annual Brahms festivities was the asparagus luncheon always -given by Ehrbar on, or as near as possible to, May 7, in honour of the -master's birthday. About twelve or sixteen people were invited, amongst -whom the Hanslicks and Billroth and his daughter were regularly -included. The luncheon hour was twelve o'clock, and the menu, which -never varied, consisted of oysters, caviare, cold meat, then the _pièce -de résistance_, asparagus, which was always provided in the proportion -of two bundles to each person. This was followed by cheese and dessert, -and there was a free flow of fine champagne. - -The summer of 1888, the last one passed by Brahms at Thun, did not reach -the end of its course in such unbroken tranquillity as the two previous -ones. A heated political discussion with Widmann, in which neither -disputant would give way, threatened to put a sudden end to the intimacy -which had been a source of pleasure and advantage to both friends. -Fortunately this catastrophe was averted by the good sense of the two -men and the cordial affection existing between them, and when Brahms -left Switzerland in October they looked forward to renewing the -experience of a journey to Italy together which had brought them a -succession of delights in the spring of the year. - -The third Sonata for pianoforte and violin, in D minor, was composed -during the summer, and was played for the first time in public from the -manuscript by Brahms and Joachim at Joachim's Vienna concert of February -13, 1889. It was published in the spring, with Brahms' dedication to -'his friend Hans von Bülow,' and was performed immediately afterwards in -London by Miss Fanny Davies and Ludwig Straus at Miss Davies' concert of -May 7. The three sonatas for pianoforte and violin were played one -summer's day at Gmünden, by Brahms and Joachim, before the Queen and -royal family of Hanover, an incident which carries the memory back to -the year 1853, when Johannes, having come safely through the first -stages of his concert-journey and taken Joachim's heart by storm, -appeared with Reményi for the first time before King George and his -circle at Hanover. - -The other publications of 1889 were a book of five Songs for mixed -Chorus _a capella_, and three books of five Songs each, for a single -voice with pianoforte accompaniment. Of these 'Wie Melodien,' 'Auf dem -Kirchhofe,' and 'Verrath' (Nos. 1, 4, 5 of Op. 105), and 'Serenade' (No. -1 of Op. 106), are great favourites of the author's. Brahms' songs, -however, offer such rich choice of beauty that the selection of one or -another, even of the more celebrated, for particular mention must be -regarded as little more than the indication of a personal preference. - -[69] The scope of these pages does not permit the author to yield to the -temptation of presenting an analysis of the means by which Brahms has -produced the romantic, mysterious atmosphere which pervades the 'andante -moderato.' They will be found strangely simple and intelligible by those -inclined to examine for themselves the harmonic material; in the first -place of the introductory bars (which consists of the chromatic major -concord on the minor sixth of the key, E major, and a couple of passing -notes); and in the second place of the full statement of the opening -theme (which includes the chords of the dominant minor ninth and the -tonic seventh and minor thirteenth, all chromatic). - -[70] Widmann's 'Johannes Brahms in Erinnerungen,' p. 58 and following. - -[71] A mountain near Thun. - -[72] _Die Musik_, first May number of 1902. - - - - - CHAPTER XXI - 1889-1895 - - Hamburg honorary citizenship--Christmas at Dr. Fellinger's--Second - String Quintet--Mühlfeld--Clarinet Quintet and Trio--Last journey - to Italy--Sixtieth birthday--Pianoforte Pieces--Billroth's - death--Brahms' collection of German Folk-songs--Life at - Ischl--Clarinet Sonatas--Frau Schumann, Brahms, and Joachim - together for the last time. - - -From the year 1889 onward Brahms chose for his summer dwelling-place the -charming town of Ischl, the central point of the beautiful region of the -Salzkammergut, and a favourite watering-place of the Viennese. He rented -rooms, as on one or two former visits, in a cottage prettily situated on -the outskirts of the town near the rushing river Traun, away from the -visitors' quarter and convenient for his favourite walks about the -picturesque mountains which surround the valley. A strong note of -affectionate regret, very characteristic of the composer, is observable -in the letter in which he announced to Widmann his arrangements for the -open-air season of 1889. His extreme attachment, however, to his Vienna -friends, to whom he may be said to have belonged almost entirely during -the closing years of his life, probably determined his choice of Ischl, -which was well within the reach of any of them who wished to visit him, -whilst several had villas for summer residence in the immediate -neighbourhood. Johann Strauss always lived at Ischl during the summer, -the Billroths' delightfully situated home at St. Gilgen could be reached -by train or the lake boat service in an hour, whilst the house and -grounds of Herr and Frau Victor von Miller zu Aichholz at Gmünden, and -Goldmark's rooms, also at Gmünden, were not much further off, and so on -with other friends. - - 'I have heard by chance,' writes Billroth from St. Gilgen to Brahms - at Ischl on June 16, 'that Mandyczewski and Rottenberg are with you - ... make up your mind quickly therefore and come over with them to - St. Gilgen and invite Brüll or Goldmark also in my name....' - -Brahms always dined when at Ischl in the 'Keller' of the Hôtel -Elisabeth, which was reached by a flight of steps leading downwards from -the street, and is thus described by Billroth: - - 'I passed a couple of pleasant hours with Brahms at Ischl. We dined - in a damp, underground room belonging to the Hôtel Elisabeth. The - same dishes are served there as in the better class dining-room but - at rather cheaper prices; it is very cool in the summer and no - toilet is required; everything as if made for Brahms.' - -The city of Hamburg this year conferred its honorary citizenship on -Brahms, a distinction he shared with Bismarck and Moltke. Greatly -touched by this recognition, the master let himself go for once, and -immediately telegraphed his thanks to the mayor in natural, impulsive -fashion that he seems to have regretted when he saw his words in print. - - '... You will find me here,' he wrote to Hanslick from Ischl, - 'until--I must go to the music festival at Hamburg! I must, for my - honorary citizenship, with all that is associated with it, has been - too pleasant and gratifying. I dread it, however, for I see that my - telegram to the mayor has been printed! It sounds too foolish; "the - best that could have come to me from men"--as though I had been - thinking of eternal bliss; whereas all that I had in my mind was - that when a melody occurs to me it is more welcome than an order, - and that if it lead to my succeeding with a symphony, it gives me - more pleasure than all honorary citizenships!...'[73] - -In acknowledgment of the honour bestowed on him, Brahms composed three -eight-part choruses _a capella_, which he entitled 'Fest and -Gedenksprüche' (Festival and Commemoration Sayings) and dedicated to the -mayor of Hamburg, Herr Oberbürgermeister Dr. Petersen. Patriotic -remembrances and hopes were vividly present to his mind as he composed -them, and the work is to be accepted as a second great musical memorial -and glorification of the events of 1870-71. The texts are again selected -from the Bible: from Deuteronomy, the Psalms, and the Gospels of St. -Matthew and St. Luke. The choruses were studied by the Cecilia Society, -and performed under Spengel at the first of three festival concerts -arranged by Bülow for the opening of the Hamburg Industrial Exhibition. -Sittard calls them 'a splendid musical gift,' and places them amongst -the best and finest of the composer's works. - - 'The "Sayings" do not address themselves to a particular nation or - creed, but speak to every thoughtful mind, to every human heart - susceptible to earnest, ideal influences, and striving after the - high and the beautiful. There lives in these movements something of - that strong confidence which we find--expressive of another period - of thought and of art--in Handel's works, and which acts like a - tonic on every faithful mind. Brahms is the only composer of the - present day who can sufficiently control his own individuality to - be capable of expressing his texts in a musical language - universally applicable and intelligible.' - -The work was received with immense enthusiasm, and the master was -obliged to come forward to acknowledge the long-continued plaudits which -followed its conclusion. It was the last time that he stood on a concert -platform of his native city. - -Spengel, who witnessed with Bülow the presentation of the citizens' -document, which took place at Dr. Petersen's house, relates that Brahms -gave warm verbal expression to the deep feeling animating the written -acknowledgment by which he had supplemented his telegram of thanks. This -letter ran as follows:[74] - - /* 'YOUR MAGNIFICENCE 'MOST HONOURABLE HERR BÜRGERMEISTER */ - - 'I feel with my whole heart the need to add a few words to my - hasty, short telegram. Kindly permit me again to assure your - magnificence that my fellow-citizens have delighted and honoured me - beyond measure by the bestowal of the honorary citizenship. As the - artist is rejoiced by such a distinguished token of recognition, so - also is the man by the glorious feeling of knowing himself so - highly esteemed and loved in his native city. A feeling doubly - proud when this native city is our beautiful, ancient, noble - Hamburg!... The precious gift of my citizen's letter ... becomes - more precious and dear to me as I place it by the side of my - father's citizen's document (still in Low-German). My father was, - indeed, my first thought in connection with the pleasant event, and - one wish only remains, that he were here to rejoice with me....' - -This was not the only mark of the esteem felt for him in high places by -which the master was this year honoured. The news that the Emperor -Francis Joseph had conferred upon him the distinguished 'Leopold's' -order reached him in Ischl, taking him completely by surprise, and was -followed by an inundation of letters, cards, and telegrams of -congratulation, to all of which he replied individually. - -'I was so pleased that the Austrians, as such, were glad that I was -obliged to reply prettily,' he wrote to Hanslick.[75] - -Another of the distinctions bestowed upon Brahms late in his career, -which gave him, as a German musician, extraordinary pleasure, was that -of his election as foreign member of the Académie française. He -endeavoured to write his letter of acknowledgment in French, but, not -being able to satisfy himself, was obliged to be content with expressing -his gratification in his own language. - -It seems appropriate to record, with the mention of these pleasant -incidents, the fact of Brahms' warm admiration of the opera 'Carmen,' -the work of the French composer Bizet. - -A visit to Cologne--the last--in February is noteworthy as having -furnished opportunity for the first (private) performance from the -manuscript of three Motets for four and eight part chorus _a capella_. -They were sung by the students' choral class of the conservatoire, and -on the same occasion Brahms played--also from the manuscript--with two -of the professors, the revised edition of his early B major Trio for the -first time outside Vienna. We have already, in the early pages of our -narrative, expressed our preference for the original version of this -lovely work. - -A visit to Italy in the spring with Widmann, which included Parma, -Cremona, Brescia, and Vicenza, afforded Brahms opportunity of deriving -pleasure from the most varied sources. The sight of the cathedral of -Cremona by moonlight, upon which he and Widmann came suddenly the night -of their arrival, as they turned a street corner, quite overpowered him. -He could not gaze long enough at the wonderful scene, and was obliged to -return with his friend to look at it once again before he could persuade -himself to go in for the night. He was able, on the other hand, to -derive amusement from the trifling incidents of each day's adventures, -and was always ready to meet the passing difficulties and embarrassments -of the traveller with laudable equanimity and resource. He used, later -on, to describe, with some zest, an opera performance which he attended -at Brescia. The work, he declared, consisted entirely of final cadences, -but was so beautifully sung that he had great pleasure in listening to -it. - -His appearance and manner, which at this period of his life made an -irresistible impression of nobility and, generally, of benevolence on -strangers, in spite of his short stature and careless dress, attracted -the constant admiration of his casual fellow-travellers and of the -people of the country with whom he had to do; and amongst other -anecdotes related by Widmann is one of a guide at Palermo who had fought -under Garibaldi: - -'Our refined and amiable guide suddenly stopped short in the midst of -his flowing discourse, and, with a look at Brahms, exclaimed -involuntarily: "Ah! mi pare di parlare al mio venerabile generale -Garibaldi!" at which the master's eyes lightened enthusiastically.' - -Brahms was frequently asked to officiate as godfather to his friends' -children, and this summer he acceded to the request of Frau Dr. Marie -Janssen, eldest daughter of his first teacher, Cossel, that he would -stand sponsor to her little son. A few months later Frau Janssen sent -him a photograph of two of her children, which he acknowledged in the -following words: - - 'DEAR AND ESTEEMED LADY, - - 'I am not able to write a real letter however strongly your kind - and welcome packet tempts me to do so. Let me, however, briefly - express my thanks and believe that my most cordial thoughts go out - to you at Kiel, and again to Hamburg to your unforgettable father, - whose memory is amongst those most sacred and dear to me. Only one - thing were to be wished as to the charming little packet--that it - could have smiled at him. - - 'In warm remembrance and with best greetings - - 'Yours sincerely, - 'J. BRAHMS.' - -When the Janssens settled at Kiel, Brahms wrote to ask Groth to call -upon them, saying: - - '... The lady is the daughter of my first pianoforte teacher Cossel - of whom I must have told you. And when I began to speak of him I - was certainly unable to leave off again....' - -At the period we have now reached, Brahms had given up his solitary -Christmas evenings. The home of Dr. and Mrs. Fellinger became every year -more and more a substitute to him in some sort for that home of his own -which he imagined, perhaps, with longing and regret till the last year -of his life. Each Christmas Eve of his last seven winters found him -amongst the Fellinger family group, rejoicing in the joy of the young -people, stimulating their fun, happy in feeling himself truly one in the -midst of a family circle whose greatest delight it was to know that -their friend of friends liked to be amongst them. Frau Fellinger always -contrived some charming practical joke in the matter of the Christmas -presents prepared for the master, by which he was annually and -unfailingly taken in. One year--the first Christmas he passed at the -house--part of her own gift table, labelled with his name, was -tastefully arranged with toilet accessories. In front of a burnished -mirror two candlesticks stood, holding lighted candles; between these -was a pincushion, on to which was pinned a black silk necktie; some -parcels with pink paper wrappings, tied with ribbon and labelled 'Finest -perfume,' lay near. The only uncovered articles were packets of -writing-paper of the kinds most used by Brahms, supplied in sufficient -quantities to last some time. - -The usual general survey of the gift-laden tables took place, and Brahms -evinced much sympathetic interest during the tour of inspection, but -presently he walked silently away to the other end of the room, passing -his hand over his beard, then sauntered back carelessly, only to retire -again and pace about apart, the picture of quiet dismay. 'But won't you -look at your things, Dr. Brahms?' inquired Frau Fellinger by-and-by, -when her guest had summoned sufficient courage to mingle again with the -party and admire the young people's presents, though he carefully -avoided glancing at his own. Poor Brahms allowed himself to be led to -the table, and stood mute and dazed before it. 'Ah! _here_ is mine,' he -cried, suddenly catching sight of the paper; 'this is for me!' 'But all -is for you,' returned his hostess kindly but firmly. 'But these things -are all for you,' said the master, pleading; 'they are not for me, they -are yours.' 'But why, Dr. Brahms?' insisted the lady; 'pray look at your -things; do you not like scent?' By little and little the master was -persuaded to handle his presents, gingerly enough, it is true. And now -ensued the transformation scene. Each dainty trifle turned into some -useful article suited to Brahms' needs. The two candlesticks became -cream-jugs, the pincushion a sugar-basin, the packets of perfume proved -to be tablets of unscented soap. A bread-basket containing bundles of -English quills such as Brahms always used for writing music, and a -clothes-brush, stood in bare, attractive reality before his astonished -eyes. Soon nothing remained but the mirror. 'But this really does belong -to you,' he implored, still deceived. 'Look behind it,' said Frau -Fellinger; and the mirror became a nickel coffee-tray, chosen because of -its smooth, brilliantly-polished back, which had well served the -Christmas Eve purpose. 'Now I really must sit down,' said Brahms, -drawing a long breath, his kind face shining; and he insisted on -carrying away all his things in a cab the same evening. - -But though Brahms was persuaded, in the later years of his life, to join -the family festivities of these kind friends, he kept up to the last his -custom of showing himself at his landlady's Christmas Eve party. Frau -Truxa used to light up her tree an hour or two earlier than formerly, so -that he should feel quite happy in setting out for Dr. Fellinger's. Of -course her two boys were always remembered by the master, and his gifts -to them, generally books, were found punctually on the table at the hour -appointed for the commencement of the festivity. - -The publications of the year 1890 were the 'Fest und Gedenksprüche,' as -Op. 109, and three Motets for four and eight part Chorus _a capella_, -Op. 110. - -The writer of these pages was present at a supper-party given in Vienna -in January, 1890, after a concert of the Joachim Quartet, at which -Brahms with Joachim and his colleagues were the chief guests. 'What -shall we have next?' said Joachim to Brahms in the course of supper; 'a -quintet; we have one, a very fine one; we will have another.' A second -string quintet, with two violas, composed during the summer at Ischl, -was the next work produced by Brahms, and was heard for the first time -in public from the manuscript in Vienna at the Rosé Quartet concert of -November 11 (Rosé, Bachrich, Hummer, Jenek, and Siebert). An anecdote -which appears to the author worth preserving, as expressive of Brahms' -appreciation of his friend's incomparable playing, may find a place -here. At a period when the two men had not met for a couple of years an -occasion came when Brahms heard Joachim play. 'Now,' he said afterwards -to the lady who related the story to the author, 'now I know what it is -that has been wanting in my life during the past two years. I felt -something was missing, but could not tell what. It was the sound of -Joachim's violin. How he plays!' - -Brahms' Quintet in G major is, in the opinion of most competent judges, -one of the most powerful and fascinating of his works of chamber music -for strings. If there is, in one or two of his late compositions for -pianoforte and other instruments, something that suggests the feeling -that in this domain the elasticity of his imagination was approaching -its limits, nothing of the sort can be said of either of the works for -strings only, and the Quintet in G is certainly second to none of them -in wealth of spontaneous melody, in vigour and variety of inventive -power, in all, in short, that is included in the word 'vitality.' To the -present writer it appears quite clear and easy to follow, but that there -may be two impressions on this point is proved in a remarkable way by -two letters written by Billroth, the first to Brahms himself after the -work had been performed for the first time from the manuscript at a -party at Billroth's house, the second a few months later to Hanslick. - -In the letter to Brahms, dated November 6, the famous surgeon, writing -evidently under the influence of the great artistic excitement of the -day, tells the master that he cannot rest without sending him word of -his delight. - - 'Lately I have been silent, for I know not what more to say than, - wonderfully fine and now clear to me at first hearing, clear as the - blue sky!... Could one compare the various works of Michael Angelo, - Raphael, Beethoven, Mozart when they were at the height of their - powers? Only in the sense of a limited personal sympathy.... I have - often wondered what human happiness is--now I was happy to-day when - listening to your music. That is quite clear to me.' - -The following March, however, Billroth wrote to Hanslick that he found -the quintet one of the most difficult of Brahms' works. - - 'The form, when one has found it out, is simple and clear; but the - length of the first bass theme and the rhythmic and harmonic - over-rich, I might say overladen, five-part development make - enjoyment of the movement [the first] impossible except under great - mental strain. One must be fresher and better in health for it than - I am at present.... But it is easy to talk; we are always wanting - something new, something which interests us more than the last; no - one can quite satisfy us.'[76] - -Billroth heard the work the first time under the most favourable -imaginable conditions, when his own powers of receptivity were strongly -stimulated. He was depressed and out of health when he wrote the second -letter. The majority of music-lovers would, we fancy, range themselves -on the side of his original impression. The power and loveliness of the -first movement, the romance of the second (the wonderful adagio), the -plaintive daintiness of the third, the vivacity of the fourth, tinged -with Hungarian colouring, all seem to foretell a continued prolongation -of the composer's creative force and impulse. That Brahms himself, -however, in the beginning of the nineties was conscious of needing rest -is well known. Billroth says of him in a letter dated May 28, 1890, -after visiting him at Ischl: - - 'He rejected the idea that he is composing or will ever compose - anything. He is deep in Sybel's "Foundation of the German Empire," - three thick volumes and the fourth to come.' - -To another friend Brahms said in 1891: 'I have tormented myself to no -purpose lately, and till now I never had to do so at all; things always -came easily to me.' He professed his intention of giving his creative -activity a rest, and employing his time in reading, going excursions, -and seeing his friends, but did not at once persevere in the resolution. - -In the early part of the year 1891 he paid a visit to Meiningen. His -enjoyment was the greater since the Duke, to whom the master had often -spoken of Widmann, had invited this gentleman to meet his friend. -Several delightful details of the time are related by Widmann. For us, -however, the fact of particular interest is that it was now that Brahms' -admiration of the performances of the clarinettist Mühlfeld, of the -Meiningen orchestra, culminated in the determination to write for his -instrument. Mühlfeld had gained particular reputation as a soloist by -his performances of Weber, whose Concertino for clarinet and orchestra -had been introduced by him at Meiningen on December 25, 1886, the -hundredth anniversary of the composer's birth. Our master, who since -that date had had many opportunities of listening to Mühlfeld's -wonderful tone and execution, now asked for a private recital with only -himself as audience, in the course of which the clarinettist played to -him one piece after another from his répertoire, and discussed his -instrument with him. The sequel was the composition by Brahms, during -his annual residence at Ischl, of a trio for pianoforte, clarinet, and -violoncello and a quintet for clarinet and strings. These works were -performed from the manuscripts before the ducal circle at Meiningen -Castle on November 24 of the same year, the Trio by Brahms, Mühlfeld, -and Hausmann, the Quintet by the same musicians, Joachim, and two -members of the Meiningen orchestra. - -Brahms remained on as the Duke's guest for some little time after the -performance, and then followed his friends to Berlin in order to take -part in the Joachim Quartet concert of December 12, when his new works -were heard for the first time in public. This occasion was, and has -remained, unique in the history of the famous party of artists. The -Joachim Quartet concerts in Berlin, occupying a position in the -forefront of the musical life of the city, have now taken place annually -for nearly forty years; but into no other programme than that of -December 12, 1891, has a work not written exclusively for strings been -admitted. That Brahms was much gratified by the compliment paid him is -evident from a letter written by him on December 1 to Hanslick, in which -he says: - - '... I shall not be able to tell you about it [a performance of - Strauss' opera, 'Ritter Paynim'] for another fortnight. This is - because Joachim has sacrificed the virginity of his Quartet to my - newest things. Hitherto he has carefully protected the chaste - sanctuary but now, in spite of all my protestations, he insists - that I invade it with clarinet and piano, with trio and quintet. - This will take place on the 12th of December, and with the - Meiningen clarinettist. Tell Mandyczewski (or let him read) that - the quintet "adagio con sordini" was played as long and often as - the clarinettist could hold out.'[77] - -The visit to Berlin resulted in a phenomenal triumph. A public rehearsal -was held on the 10th, when every seat was occupied, and at the -conclusion of the quintet, the last number of the programme, the -audience indulged in an overwhelming demonstration to composer and -executants. They went so far as to demand a repetition of the entire -work, and Joachim and his colleagues at length consented to repeat the -adagio. A similar scene was enacted at the concert on the 12th. Both new -works were favourably noticed by the Berlin press, which waxed -enthusiastic over the quintet, and especially the adagio. - -The trio was played in Vienna the same month at a Hellmesberger concert; -the quintet on January 5, 1892, by the Rosé Quartet party, with the -clarinettist Steiner. Both works were heard again in the Austrian -capital a fortnight later at a concert given there by the Joachim -Quartet party, with the co-operation of Brahms and Mühlfeld. The quintet -was introduced to a London audience at the Monday Popular concert of -March 28 by Mühlfeld, Joachim, Ries, Straus, and Piatti, and repeated at -the Saturday concert of April 2, when the trio was also played by Miss -Fanny Davies, Mühlfeld, and Piatti. - -The Clarinet Trio appears to us one of the least convincing of Brahms' -works, and this in spite of the fact that it bears its composer's name -writ large on every page. No one could fail to recognise his handwriting -in either of the four movements, and to true Brahms lovers the -handwriting must always be dear; but if one may compare the composer -with himself, the inspiration of this work seems to us to halt, the -spirit to want flexibility. Far otherwise is it with the beautiful and -now favourite quintet, which contains, as Steiner says, richest fruits -of the golden harvest of the poet's activity. Here 'the brooks of life -are flowing as at high noon,' though the tone of gentle, loving regret -which pervades the four movements, and holds the heart of the listener -in firm grip, suggests the composer's feeling that the evening is not -far away from him in which no man may work. A fulness of rich melody, a -luscious charm of tone, original effects arising from the treatment of -the clarinet, 'olympian' ease and mastery, distinguish every movement of -this noble and attractive work, which, taking its hearers by storm on -its first production, has grown more firmly rooted into the hearts of -musicians and laymen with each fresh hearing. In the middle section of -the second movement Brahms has written for the clarinet a number of -quasi-improvisatory passages embracing the entire extent of its compass, -which are supported by the strings, and which, when competently -performed, are of surprisingly attractive effect. A fancy that suggested -itself to one of the Berlin critics, as to the position assigned in this -movement to the clarinet, seems to have commended itself to Brahms, who -was ever afterwards in the habit of introducing the distinguished artist -for whom it was written, to intimate friends, as 'Fräulein von Mühlfeld, -meine Primadonna.' - -In 1891 were published the String Quintet in G, Op. 111; six Vocal -Quartets, the last four being additional Gipsy Songs set to Conrat's -texts, Op. 112; and thirteen Canons for women's voices, the appearance -of which forms a direct link between the composer's late maturity and -early youth. - -The Clarinet Trio and Quintet and three books of short Pianoforte -Pieces, Op. 116, Nos. 1 and 2, and Op. 117, appeared in 1892. - -Brahms departed in good time in the spring of 1893 for what was to be -his last holiday in the south, meeting Widmann and two Zürich friends -(Friedrich Hegar and Robert Freund) in Milan and proceeding with them to -Sicily, whose scenery and general romantic charm had made an indelible -impression on his mind when he had travelled in the country with -Billroth some fifteen years previously. He had an additional and weighty -reason for desiring to leave Vienna in April. The coming 7th of May, -his sixtieth birthday, could not fail to be made the occasion, not only -of friendly rejoicings, but, if he were at home, of formal -congratulatory functions in which he would be asked to take part. To his -mind, such a predicament left but one course open to him--flight; and -for this he had made arrangement months beforehand. As early as the year -1892 he had refused Hegar's invitation to celebrate his birthday by some -festival performances at Zürich in the following terms: - - 'VIENNA, _September 29th, 1892_. - - 'DEAR FRIEND */ 'I hasten to place this pretty sheet of paper - before me and will endeavour approximately to express my gratitude - to you and your society for your extremely kind and friendly - project for the next 7th May. To-day I will only say that I have - for some time been intending to make a proposal to you. My - indolence in writing is the only cause that you have been - beforehand with me. I wished to ask you and Widmann if you would - not like, as I should, to go for a little while to Italy? - - 'When and where is all one to me; if on the 7th of May we are only - safe in the Abruzzi or somewhere else where no one can find us; if - we can only devote ourselves to touching (and preferably jovial) - meditation. You see my plans and ideas are quite different from - yours and my next letter will contain only many thanks for your - very kind thought....'[78] - -To Herr Ehrbar's annual invitation to the asparagus luncheon, therefore, -which was sent as usual about the middle of April to No. 4, Carlsgasse, -and which contained a special request that in this particular year the -festivity should be celebrated on May 7 itself, a telegraphic reply was -received from Genoa. The master was very sorry that he would not be able -to be present this year, but sent his kindest greetings to all friends -who should assemble on the occasion. Instead of postponing the party on -account of this disappointment, Herr Ehrbar decided not only to gather -the old friends about him as usual, but to hold the festivity at the -Hôtel Sacher, and to invite some additional guests to drink the health -of the absent composer, bringing up the number to about thirty. - -Widmann, who had an accident during the return journey which injured his -knee and obliged him to remain for two days at Naples under the -surgeon's care, has thus described how Brahms spent May 7: - - 'And so it happened that Brahms passed his sixtieth birthday in the - most quiet seclusion, remaining to watch faithfully by my bed after - we had persuaded our two friends to make an excursion to Pompeii. - The doctor's performances, which gave me little pain, excited him - fearfully, though he tried to conceal this by making jesting - remarks, as when he muttered grimly between his teeth, "If it - should come to cutting, I am the right man; I was always Billroth's - assistant in such cases." When we were alone he provided for my - comfort like a deaconess and took pains to keep up my spirits by - chatting cheerfully, saying for instance, "You have already tramped - about so much in the Swiss Alps and Italy. Even if, at the worst, - this should not again be possible, you are much better off than a - hundred thousand others who have not had such opportunity." ... - Every now and then whilst he was sitting with me, congratulatory - telegrams arrived from intimate friends who had obtained - intelligence from one or other of us as to our whereabouts.' - -It was rumoured in Vienna, nevertheless, that Brahms was present at Herr -Ehrbar's luncheon; that he was seen in the Augustinestrasse in the -evening of the 6th; that he astonished his friends by joining them at -the Hôtel Sacher at twelve o'clock on the 7th, just as they were about -to sit down to table; and that he vanished from the city immediately -after the festivity, to come back no more until the usual time of his -return in October. - -The sixtieth birthday of its honorary president was celebrated by a -special meeting and musical performance in the club-rooms of the -Tonkünstlerverein, and the Gesellschaft had a gold medal cast in the -master's honour. - -A note to Frau Caroline, written in June from Ischl, headed by a -diminutive photograph of himself in walking dress, is suggestive of -Brahms' happy mood at this time: - - 'Here I come, dear mother, and thank you for your dear letter. - - 'I am delighted that Fritz [Schnack] is making a nice tour which - shows that you are both well--let him only make further plans, and - travel!... I will be careful that you get a cast of the medal. It - will interest Fritz as a connoisseur--he must imagine the gold. I - am very well and the summer becomes finer every day. In the autumn - or winter I really must look in upon you myself and not merely in a - portrait. - - 'Have you a great deal too much money, or may I send some? I should - like Fritz to spend plenty in travelling and he can afterwards - entertain you and himself again with his sufferings!... - - 'Your JOHANNES.'[79] - -Years before this date, Frau Caroline had, at the urgent and -oft-repeated wish of Johannes, given up her boarding-house in the -Anscharplatz, and retired to enjoy the remainder of her life as mistress -of her son's quiet home in Pinneberg. Johannes kept his stepmother -supplied with the necessary funds, which were regularly transmitted to -her through his publisher, Herr Simrock of Berlin; but he was never -tired of urging upon her his readiness to meet intermediate demands as -they might arise, and particularly of suggesting holiday journeys for -Fritz Schnack as a good way of spending extra money. Frau Caroline and -her son, who both worshipped Johannes, frequently incurred his -displeasure on account of the moderation with which they availed -themselves of his generosity. - -He never went to Hamburg after his stepmother's retirement without -reserving a few hours to visit her at Pinneberg, and there, in the -modest little dwelling he had provided, felt himself, as it were, in the -old family home. He would sit in a corner of the sofa in the room by the -side of the shop filled with clocks whose hands pointed to the right -time and whose pendulums swung cheerily to and fro, and chat happily -with her and Fritz, hearing little items of domestic news, asking after -this and the other acquaintance; then would suddenly relapse into -silence and reverie, which were unfailingly respected by the two people -to whom he was so dear. By-and-by, after he had arranged his thoughts, -he would come out again from his musing to continue the pleasant -chit-chat where it had been left. - -Brahms always expected his stepmother to be present at his public -appearances in Hamburg, and continued to stay with her, when visiting -the city, until she went to live at Pinneberg. On an occasion of his -coming, after her retirement, to conduct a symphony at one of Bülow's -Hamburg concerts, he took a room for her next his own at the Hôtel -Moser, that they might be as much as possible together during the few -days of his stay, and led her on his arm to her seat at rehearsals and -concert. Frau Caroline did not, perhaps, entirely fathom the depths and -intricacies of her stepson's fourth symphony, but she loved the work, -and shared in the joy of it with her whole heart. Fritz, too, came over -from Pinneberg, and greeted his stepbrother in the artist's room before -the concert began. The master's sister, Elise Grund, died in 1892, and -his visit to Hamburg after her death seems to have been the last known -by his friends to have been paid by him to his native city. He was at -Pinneberg, however, after this date. - -Some of Brahms' time at Ischl this summer was given to the editing of -the supplementary volume of Frau Schumann's complete edition of her -husband's works. One cannot but read in this deeply-interesting book our -master's desire to associate his name once more with those of Schumann -and his wife, especially as he has taken the, for him, altogether -exceptional course of writing and signing the introductory sentences of -its first page. It contains, to quote Brahms' words, - - 'a few things found amongst Robert Schumann's papers which, on - account of their value, or of some special interest, ought not to - be omitted from this collection.... The theme with which the volume - concludes is, in a quite peculiar sense, Schumann's last musical - thought. He wrote it on the 7th of February, 1854, and afterwards - added five variations which are withheld here. It speaks to us as a - kindly greeting spirit [genius] about to depart and we think with - reverence and emotion of the glorious man and artist. - - 'JOHANNES BRAHMS. - ISCHL, _July 1893_.'[80] - -Of the composer's original work of the season Billroth writes a few -months later to a friend: - - 'Brahms has, so far as I know, composed a dozen pianoforte pieces - during the summer. I do not know the cause of this sudden passion. - I like him least of all in this style, the G minor Rhapsody - excepted. He does not sufficiently diversify his form in these - little works.... He ought to keep to the great style.' - -The pieces in question were published in the autumn in two books--Op. -118 and 119. The other publications of the year, issued without opus -number, were the two books of Technical Exercises for Pianoforte. - -Billroth's expression of feeling about the Pianoforte Pieces will -probably be endorsed by many even of the most faithful admirer's of -Brahms' art, whilst all will certainly agree as to his one exception. -Beautiful as many of the intermezzi, fantasias, etc., are, it is to be -doubted whether Brahms' short compositions for the pianoforte will ever -gain such universal and unreserved affection as has long since been -accorded to those of Schumann and Chopin. The manner in which the -thoughts are expressed sometimes seems out of proportion to the moderate -length of their development, the height of the structure to be, as it -were, too great in comparison with the superficial area allotted to it. -In several instances at all events, however, this impression is due to -the unusualness of the pieces, and passes away as they become really -familiar. It is as yet too soon to form any definite opinion as to the -place they may ultimately take. - -True appreciation of Brahms' small as of his great works is sometimes -slow in coming, even to those who love his music with deepest affection. -When, however, from time to time, the spirit dwelling within his -inspirations reveals itself unsought as in a sudden flash, the whole -heart is apt to go out with complete acceptance to the reception of its -beauty and truth. Only in one instance (Op. 117, No. 1) has the master -given any clue as to the sources which may have stirred his fancy during -the composition of his thirty short pieces for the pianoforte from Op. -76 onwards, and where he has been reticent it would ill beseem others to -stamp any particular piece with a definite suggestion. It may, however, -be surmised that many of the little compositions are expressions derived -from his passion for nature. The mountain storm swept up by the wind and -bursting with a sudden crash, the approaching and retreating roll of its -thunder, with the ceaseless pattering of rain on the leaves; the gay -flitting of butterflies; the lazy hum of the insect world on a hot -summer day; the long sweep of gray waves breaking into foam on the -shore--all may be found in them. The music of the spheres, also, too -ethereal for the perception of ordinary mortals, has been caught by our -master's ear, and, woven into gossamer sound-textures, has been conveyed -by him to the appreciation of organizations less delicate than his own. -Some of the pieces have certainly grown up around the fancies of a -legend or a poem. In these we may hear the weird footsteps of the spirit -world, the dread strike of the bell of fate, the catastrophe of human -lives. In no case, however, except in the one mentioned, are the several -works to be taken as having been associated with this or that in the -mind of the composer. The same one may mean different things to -different people, and Brahms has carefully guarded against the -possibility of being suspected of programme-music by giving to the -Fantasias, Rhapsodies, Ballades, Intermezzi, the vaguest of all -possible titles.[81] The book Op. 117 has become really popular, and is -sold in the United Kingdom alone in its thousands. One of the first -persons--perhaps the first--to hear books Op. 116 and 117 was Frau -Schumann's pupil, Fräulein Ilona Eibenschütz (now Mrs. Carl Derenberg), -to whom Brahms played them on their completion, inviting her especially -to hear them. - -Asking Brahms to be present in October at a festival meeting of the -Imperial and Royal Society of Physicians, Billroth says: - - 'I should like to see you for once in evening dress [_schön - decorirt_]. If, however, you object to this, you will find a place - among the younger doctors in the (not high) gallery in walking - costume.' - -It was one of the last semi-public functions in which the famous surgeon -took part. His health had for some time been declining, and he died on -February 6, regretted by all ranks of Vienna citizens. The funeral -procession was witnessed by crowds of people, especially of the poorer -classes. - - 'We do not wear such open hearts,' writes Brahms afterwards to - Widmann, 'nor show such pure and warm affection as they do here (I - mean the people, the gallery).... In the whole innumerable - concourse no inquisitive or indifferent face was to be seen, but - upon each countenance the most touching sympathy and love. This did - me much good when passing through the streets and at the - cemetery.'[82] - -Brahms could not trust himself to remain too close a spectator of the -last scene. Whilst the relatives and friends of the departed surgeon -remained standing round the open grave, he quietly strolled to a -side-walk and paced up and down, talking with an acquaintance of other -matters. - -The thought of death had, indeed, a power over the master which probably -held him in its clutch at times throughout his life. He could not bring -himself to face the enemy with resolute front, especially during his -later years, when the iron hand laid claim to one of his friends, but -would speak of the matter as little as might be, and no doubt kept it as -much as possible at bay in his thoughts. 'I do not mean to drink any -more coffee,' he said one day to his landlady in Carlsgasse. 'Why, Herr -Doctor, you enjoy your coffee so much!' exclaimed Frau Truxa, who had -gained an insight into his character, and felt sure that something lay -behind this announcement. 'I have taken coffee for a long time,' -returned Brahms. 'I am going to leave it off, and drink something else.' -A few days later Frau Truxa heard by chance of the death of a lady -living in Marseilles who had for years kept the master supplied with -Mocha. Nothing more was said, but an arrangement was made, without -Brahms' knowledge, by which the same supply was to be despatched at the -same interval by her daughter. Coming as it were from the same hand, -Brahms continued to drink the coffee, but without further comment. - -Death had, however, till now been kind to our master, sparing him the -agony of many severe partings. We have seen his deep grief at the loss -of the parents who had loved him with the entire devotion of their -simple, affectionate hearts. By the nature of things, his sense of -bereavement on the deaths of brother and sister had been less enduring -in its sting. His friend Pohl, librarian of the Gesellschaft, died in -1887, but with this exception the old circle of chums remained as it had -been. Joachim, Stockhausen, Grimm, Dietrich, Kirchner, Hanslick, Faber, -Billroth, Goldmark, Epstein, Gänsbacher, all had continued with him, -whilst in Frau Schumann's presence he was at the age of sixty-one still -young, with youthful feelings of veneration in his heart. The death of -Billroth dealt him a severe blow. Who shall say that even at this time -he had not a presentiment that before very long he was to follow? - -If this were so, but little change showed itself in his outward habits. -The pedestrian excursions near Vienna took place every second or third -Sunday as before, and if Brahms, growing every year heavier, found the -ascent of the surrounding heights more fatiguing than in past years, he -did not openly allude to the fact, but would invite his companions to -pause for a few moments to look at the country, whilst they, at once -acceding to his wish, always carefully avoided perceiving that he was -short of breath. Hugo Conrat frequently made one of the party of walkers -at this period, and the master was often a guest at his house, where it -is to be feared that Frau Conrat, in no way behind the rest of his -friends, sadly spoiled him. He had become in these years a complete -autocrat in the circles in which he moved. His comfort was studied, his -desires were anticipated, his witticisms appreciated, his tempers -accepted, and his utterances recognised as final. Brahms enjoyed his -position, and, it must be confessed, did not hesitate to avail himself -of his privileges. On one occasion of a dinner-party, being asked to -escort one of the principal lady guests to the dining-room, he turned -sharply round and offered his arm to the young governess. On another--a -party at the Conrats' country house--finding on his arrival that the -cloth had been laid in the dining-room, and not in the veranda, he went -up to the hostess, saying: 'But it is still fine weather. I always dine -out of doors in October.' The lady sent word to the kitchen that the -dinner was to be put back for twenty minutes, and, begging her visitors -to walk in the garden meanwhile, gave orders for the alteration of her -arrangements. 'But what did Brahms say when he found he was causing such -trouble?' someone asked Fräulein Conrat afterwards. 'Then he was good -again,' she replied. Such incidents could be multiplied from the -experiences of many of Brahms' friends. They serve chiefly to prove that -the master's mind lost its pliancy as he grew older, and that he became -incapable of adapting himself to circumstances outside his ordinary -routine. His friends accepted his whims as a part of himself, and, -knowing his sensitiveness to contradiction, did not contradict him. They -were aware that the sterling nature had not really changed, and did not -trouble themselves to criticise the outer crust of irritability and -roughness that sometimes concealed it from the appreciation of less -indulgent observers. - -[Illustration: SILHOUETTE BY DR. BÖHLER. - -_Photograph by R. Lechner (Wilh. Müller), Vienna._] - -'All that you tell me is very nice,' said Brahms one day to Herr -Conrat's two gifted young daughters, who, paying the master a visit in -his rooms, had been encouraged by him to talk about the progress of -their studies. 'You must know these things, which are very important; -but I will show you something to be learnt of still greater -consequence;' and he fetched from a drawer an old, worn, folded -table-cloth. 'Look here,' said he, showing the two girls some exquisite -darning, 'my old mother did this. When you can do such work you may be -prouder of it than of all your other studies.' - -After the completion of the Clarinet Quintet and Trio in 1892, Brahms -allowed his mind the refreshment of change of work. The only original -compositions belonging to the following year are the two books of -'Clavierstücke,' Op. 118 and 119, the appearance of which we have -already chronicled. He was, however, engaged with his collection of -German Folk-songs, arranged with pianoforte accompaniment, six volumes -for one voice, and the seventh for leader and small chorus. - -The publication of this valuable work in 1894, almost at the end of the -life of the great musician who compiled it, adds yet another and most -striking illustration to those on which we have commented, of the -general continuity of the lines on which Brahms' career was shaped. As -he began, so he ended. The boy of fifteen who arranged folk-songs for -practice by his village society, the youth of twenty who used them in -his first published works, the mature master who returned to them again -and again for inspiration and delight, all live in the veteran of -sixty-one, who, as he busies himself in preparing the unique collection, -every page of which bears mark of his insight, skill, and sympathetic -tact, seems to be looking back over the years of the past with longing -to leave behind him a final sign of his love for his great nation and -all belonging to it. 'It is the only one of my works from which I part -with a feeling of tenderness,' he said on its completion for the press. -A child of the people by birth, Brahms remained, with all his literary -and artistic culture, a child of the people by sympathy. He loved, and -ever had loved, the simple peasant folk of the country places where he -dwelt, as part of the great life of nature which was his delight. His -partiality for them had in it something which resembled his feeling for -children. He was pleased with their naïveté, valued their confidence, -and perhaps, idealist as he was, gave them credit for a genuineness and -simplicity not always theirs. In their songs, it was this same -naturalness that attracted him, and whether in his original settings of -national texts, or in his arrangements of the people's melodies, nearly -always, as we have seen, left the words as he found them in their -spontaneous directness of expression. Writing to Professor Bächtold, to -whom he sent a copy of his collection, he says: - - '... I think you will find some things new to you, for if you have - been interested in the music of our folk-songs, Erk and now Böhme - will have been your guides? These have hitherto led the (very - Philistine) tone, and my collection stands in direct opposition to - them. I could and should like to gossip more if I knew that you - were interested and especially if we were sitting together - comfortably....'[83] - -Brahms at one time contemplated changing his rather confined quarters at -Ischl, but a feeling of loyalty to the good folks in whose house he had -spent several summers, and who regarded themselves as having a -prescriptive right to their lodger, asserted its sway over his kind -heart. He returned to them as each succeeding spring came round, and the -little signs that heralded his approach--the opening of shutters, the -cleaning of windows, and other preparations visible from outside--were -eagerly looked forward to by the country people near as the first tokens -of the approaching season. - -Frau Grüber's little house, of which Brahms occupied the first-floor, -was built on a mountain slope, and a short flight of steps at the side -led to a small garden furnished with a grass plot, a garden bench, and a -summer-house. Visitors had to mount the steps, cross the garden, find a -second entrance-door at the back of the house, go in, and knock at the -door of the composer's sitting-room. Sometimes he would cross the room, -open the door, and peep cautiously out; but more often than not he -called out, 'Come in!' and the visitor stepped at once into his -presence. He laid strict injunctions on his landlady, however, that the -door of his rooms was to be kept locked and the key in her possession -whenever he was out, and that on no account was she to allow anyone even -to peep into the room containing his papers and piano. If he once found -out that she had disregarded this rule, once would be enough for him; -that very day he would pack up and leave her, never to return. It was a -most necessary precaution to take, for numerous visitors of either sex -who were unknown to him found their way to the house, and would gladly -have sought consolation for their disappointment at not seeing him by -inspecting some of his belongings. - -One or other of his friends frequently called for him about half-past -eleven, and soon afterwards he would start out and gradually make his -way to the Hôtel Kaiserin Elisabeth. Between two and three o'clock he -usually made his appearance on the promenade by the side of the river. -Stopping at Walter's coffee-house, he would seat himself at a table -under the trees outside, where a cup of black coffee and the daily -papers were at once brought to him. Here he generally remained for at -least an hour, and sometimes it was much longer, to be joined by one -friend and another till his party numbered a dozen or more. Walter's -became, indeed, at this hour of the day, a rendezvous not only for -Brahms' personal friends, but for many musical visitors to Ischl who did -not know him, but who heard that they could easily get a sight of him -there. He was very particular in acknowledging the greetings of his -numerous acquaintance as they passed along the promenade, and, owing to -his anxiety to be courteous and his near-sightedness combined, he -sometimes made a mistake and bowed to people whom he did not know. - -'Oh, if you had only been with us this afternoon!' a friend and -fellow-lodger said to the author one day in the summer of 1894. 'Paula -and I were walking on the promenade, and we met Brahms, who greeted us -so kindly. He waved his hand, and looked round, saying, "Good-day! -good-day!" Of course I returned his greeting. I wonder if it could have -been because he was pleased with my little Paula? He takes so much -notice of children.' Frau F. was far too much gratified by the incident -to accept the author's opinion that it was a case of mistaken identity, -as Brahms was not in the habit of consciously bowing to strangers. - -Herr Oberschulrath Wendt, of Carlsruhe, when staying at Ischl, was daily -to be seen in the master's company, and the two men, both of striking -appearance, presented a singular contrast as they paced side by side -along the promenade. Wendt, tall, thin, and pale, was delicate-looking, -and walked with a slight stoop. Brahms, rather short, very stout, with a -good deal of colour, probably acquired by exposure to the weather, that -seemed the more pronounced from its contrast with his white hair and -beard, went along with head well thrown back, the very personification -of vigour. On leaving Walter's he generally betook himself to a friend's -house, most frequently that of Johann Strauss. To his intimacy there the -world is indebted for some of the best of his late photographs--those of -Krziwanek, of Vienna and Ischl--which were taken one afternoon in the -summer of 1895 as he was sitting at ease with his friends. - -Brahms knew, and was well known to, all the children of the -neighbourhood, and when starting on his country walks would fill his -pockets with sweetmeats and little pictures, and amuse himself with the -eagerness of the small barefooted folk, who knew his ways and would run -after him as he passed, on the look-out for booty. 'Whoever can jump -gets a gulden,' he would say; and, displaying beyond reach of the little -ones a handful of sweetmeats made in imitation of the Austrian coin, he -would increase his speed, and raise his hand higher and higher, drawing -after him the flock of running, leaping children, until he allowed one -and another to gain a prize. - -Two Sonatas for clarinet and pianoforte, the last works of chamber music -composed by Brahms, were completed during the summer of 1894, and -towards the end of September Mühlfeld arrived at Ischl to try them with -the composer. The first private performance took place very soon -afterwards, when the two artists played them before the ducal circle of -Meiningen at the palace of Berchtesgarten. - -A reunion at Frankfurt in November is of pathetic interest. It carries -us back to the very early pages of our narrative, and is the last -complete one of the kind we shall have to record. For the last time we -find Frau Schumann and her husband's and her own two dearest -musician-friends assembled and making music together. Brahms arrived at -her house on a few days' visit on the 9th of the month; on the 10th -Mühlfeld spent the evening there, having come from Meiningen at the -composer's especial request, and the new works were played to the -illustrious lady, 'the revered Frau Schumann,' as Brahms used to call -her to his younger friends, who had now completed her seventy-fifth -year. The next day Joachim, prince of violinists at sixty-three as at -twenty-one, the age at which he entered these pages, gave a concert with -his colleagues of the Quartet, and on the 12th there was a party at Herr -and Frau Sommerhoff's, when Brahms and Mühlfeld again played the two -Sonatas, and Frau Schumann, Joachim, and Mühlfeld, Mozart's beautiful -Clarinet Trio, a favourite work of Brahms. The reunion of old friends -was completed by the presence of Stockhausen, who, like Frau Schumann, -had been resident in Frankfurt since 1878. On the 13th, the third -Frankfurt performance of the Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms and Mühlfeld -took place at a large music-party at Frau Schumann's, and another -memorable item of the evening's pleasures was the playing by Frau -Schumann and Mühlfeld of Schumann's Fantasiestücke for pianoforte and -clarinet. Joachim had left to fulfil other engagements before the -evening, and Brahms departed on the 14th. - -The master's journeys and performances with Mühlfeld gave him -extraordinary pleasure, and the publication of the two sonatas, which -in the usual course of things would have taken place in the autumn of -1894, was delayed until the summer of 1895, that his possession of the -manuscripts might be prolonged. Both works were performed at the Rosé -concerts, Vienna, by the composer and his friend--No. 2 in E flat on -January 8, 1895, when the Clarinet Quintet was also played; and No. 1 in -F minor at an extra concert on January 11, the programme of which -included the G major String Quintet. Amongst other towns visited by -Brahms and Mühlfeld in the month of February were Frankfurt, Rudesheim, -and Meiningen, and the master was seen for the last time in public by -his Frankfurt friends on the 17th, when he listened to a performance of -his D major Symphony, and conducted his Academic Overture at a Museum -concert. The two sonatas were performed for the first time after -publication at Miss Fanny Davies' concert of June 24 in St. James's -Hall, London, by the concert-giver and Mühlfeld, engaged expressly to -come to England for the occasion. The manuscripts of both works are in -the possession of Mühlfeld, to whom the composer presented them on -publication, with an appreciative autograph inscription. - -With the publication of the two Clarinet Sonatas, our master's career is -all but closed, and closed as we would have it. The more familiar they -become, the more firmly will they root themselves, as we believe, in the -affection of the lovers of his music. The fresh, bounding imagination of -youth is, indeed, not in them, nor would we wish it to be there; but -both works are pervaded by a warmth and glow as of sunset radiance, -which, reflecting the spirit of the composer as he was when he wrote -them, fill the mind of the listener with a sense of the mellow beauty, -the rich pathos, the unwavering sincerity of his art. To compare the two -sonatas one with the other is unnecessary. We prefer simply to commend -them to the study of those of our readers to whom they are not entirely -familiar, holding them, as we do, to be amongst the especially lovable -examples of the late period of Brahms' art. - -[73] _Neue Freie Presse_, June, 1897. - -[74] Spengel's 'Johannes Brahms,' p. 8. - -[75] _Neue Freie Presse_, June 29, 1897. - -[76] Billroth's Briefe. - -[77] _Neue Freie Presse_, July 1, 1897. - -[78] Published in Steiner's 'Johannes Brahms,' p. 29. - -[79] Published in Reimann's 'Johannes Brahms,' p. 117. - -[80] The theme is the one alluded to on p. 156 of our first volume. - -N.B. On the occasion of Schumann's opera 'Genoveva' being put into -rehearsal at the Hanover court theatre in 1874, Brahms, with Frau -Schumann's approval, added a few bars to the close of Siegfried's song -in the third act. These do not appear, however, in the pianoforte score -of the work included in the complete edition. - -[81] See Appendix No. I. - -[82] Widmann's 'Recollections.' - -[83] Steiner, p. 33. - - - - - 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. - - -But few events remain for record in the life which we have now followed -step by step nearly to the end of its progress. Of these few, several -have the pathetic interest of last visits to dear and familiar places -made, so far as appears, without presentiment that they were final. The -composer was present at a three days' festival held in Meiningen -September 27-29; 'the Festival of the three B's,' as it has sometimes -been called, from the circumstance that the programmes were devoted to -works by Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Those of Brahms selected for -performance included the Song of Triumph, the fourth Symphony, the B -flat Pianoforte Concerto, with d'Albert as pianist, the Clarinet Sonatas -performed by the same artist with Mühlfeld, some of the Vocal Quartets, -amongst them the early favourite 'Alternative Dance Song,' and others. - -The festival was an immense success, and the pleasure which the master -derived from the concerts is evident in the following lines written to -Steinbach immediately after the last one: - - 'DEAR FRIEND, - - 'However tempted I may feel, I dare not break in upon your - well-deserved rest; but you shall find my hearty greeting awaiting - you on your happy awakening; how hearty and grateful it is there is - no need to tell you in detail. You must have perceived each day - that you gave me and all who took part in your splendid festival, a - quite exceptional pleasure....'[84] - -Brahms was, of course, a guest at the castle, and he remained on for a -few days after the last concert. Leaving Meiningen on October 3, he -proceeded to Frankfurt on a flying visit to Frau Schumann. Professor -Kufferath of the Brussels Conservatoire, with Mr. and Mrs. Edward -Speyer, accompanied him on the short journey, and were, by his -particular suggestion, invited to spend the evening at Frau Schumann's -house. Professor Kufferath, a pupil of Mendelssohn at Leipzig, and on a -very old footing of intimacy at the Schumanns', had been for more than -twenty years on terms of cordial friendship with Brahms also, though the -two men met but seldom. Frau Schumann's daughters Marie and Eugénie, and -Stockhausen, were the only others present. The hours were spent in -pleasant chat as between old friends, and music was represented only by -a few of Brahms' folk-songs sung by Mrs. Speyer (Fräulein Antonia -Kufferath) to the master's accompaniment. - -Brahms left the next morning, but before his departure he requested his -old friend to play to him. Forty-two years had passed since Schumann had -desired him to play for the first time to her, marking both musicians -with inevitable outward signs. The traces of suffering and sorrow had -deepened of late on Frau Schumann's countenance, but those who were -happy enough to listen to her playing at this period, in the privacy of -her home, knew that her spirit was still young, and Brahms' last -remembrance of the great artist, the remembrance of an old age which had -left the poetry of her genius untouched, will have fitly completed the -long chain of personal associations begun when Schumann called his wife -to rejoice with him in the daring power and romantic enthusiasm of -Johannes' inexperienced youth. When she rose from the piano on that -October morning, the final link had been added. Frau Schumann and -Brahms were not to meet again on earth. - -A four days' festival in October (19-22) to celebrate the inauguration -of the new concert-hall at Zürich seems to carry us more than one stage -nearer the end. It brought Brahms for the last time to Switzerland to -conduct his Triumphlied; a fine close--for as such it may almost be -regarded--to a noble career. - -Let us pause for a moment to picture the robust figure of the composer -as he stands before the vast audience completely filling the brilliantly -lighted hall, and leads with sure, quiet dignity the 'masses of chorus -and orchestra' that swell out in proud tones of thankfulness for his -country's glory. Listen! for with the sounds of the grand old hymn 'Now -thank we all our God' the bells of victory are pealing, and a sensation -of happiness spreads through the mass of hearers, a vibration that stirs -something of the feeling which roused the great German audience at -Cologne to enthusiasm as they listened twenty years ago to the same -jubilant tones. Who so fitted to raise the strain as the patriot citizen -of ancient Hamburg, the unique descendant of the mighty Bach, the -musician of true, rich, loving spirit, conqueror of life and of himself, -our Johannes Brahms? Conqueror, too, of death; for surely we cannot be -mistaken in accepting the likeness of the master, that looks down with -those of the greatest of his art from the painted ceiling of the new -hall, as the symbol of a further life to be his even here on earth, when -he has entered the darkness that is soon to cover him from our sight. - -Brahms was in overflowing spirits during the entire festival, enjoying -the concerts, the private gatherings, the meetings with old friends, in -a mood of harmless gaiety that recalls the Detmold days. - - 'We have seen Brahms and Joachim together again, both in full - vigour; may we not hope for a prolongation of this happy state of - things?' writes Steiner a few days after the festival. - -Widmann was, of course, there, and stayed with Brahms at Hegar's house. -When he bade the master farewell on the day after the concert, the two -friends clasped hands in a final grasp. - -One of Brahms' late public appearances was on the occasion of the -concert given in the Börsendorfer Hall, Vienna, by Signorina Alice Barbi -(now the Baroness Wolff Homersee) shortly before her marriage. He -pleased himself by acting as accompanist to the distinguished -cantatrice, whose programme included a number of his songs. He held the -bâton for the last time on a Vienna platform when he directed the -performance of his Academic Overture by the students of the -conservatoire at the festival concert given to celebrate the -twenty-fifth anniversary (1895) of the opening of the present home of -the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. He officiated for the last time in -public at d'Albert's concert in Berlin of January 10, 1896, conducting -his two Pianoforte Concertos and the Academic Overture, and was received -with the usual enthusiasm. Stanford speaks of being present at a -dinner-party given by Joachim during Brahms' brief visit. - - 'Joachim, in a few well-chosen words, was asking us not to lose the - opportunity of drinking the health of the greatest composer--when, - before he could say the name, Brahms started to his feet, glass in - hand, and calling out "Quite right; here's to Mozart's health," - walked round clinking glasses with us all. His old hatred of - personal eulogy was never more prettily expressed.... The last - vision I had of him was as he sat beside the diminutive form of the - aged Menzel, drinking in, like a schoolboy, every word the great - old artist said with an attitude as full of unaffected reverence as - of unconscious dignity.' - -Of all modern painters, Adolph von Menzel was the most admired by -Brahms. He visited him on several occasions, and spoke of him and his -works with unfailing enthusiasm. - -That the master had realized a competence some years before his -death--more than a competence for one of his extraordinarily simple -habits--is generally known. How he regarded it, how he used it, may have -been but little suspected outside a small circle. His friend and -publisher, the late head of the firm of Simrock, shared his confidence -on the subject more than anyone else, for it was often through his -agency that Brahms' munificence was applied to its object; the -substantial help, perhaps, of a needy musician, or a promising talent. -He contributed more than one large donation to the 'Franz Liszt -Pensionsverein' of Hamburg, a society founded by Liszt in 1840 for the -benefit of aged or disabled members of the Stadt Theater orchestra. -Several authentic stories are told by accidental witnesses of some of -his particular acts of generosity. One has been related to the author by -the Landgraf of Hesse, who was sitting with the master one morning when -a caller appeared with a tale of distress which touched his heart. He -listened quietly, asked some questions, then went to his writing-table, -and, handing his visitor the entire sum of money towards which he was -asked for a contribution, said quietly, 'Take this from me; I do not -need it. I have more money than I want for myself.' This was his usual -formula on such occasions, 'I do not need it,' to which was sometimes -added, 'If you should ever have it in your power, you can pay me back.' - -Brahms' heart was of gold, if ever such existed. He was rough -sometimes--often, perhaps--let it be freely granted. The spoiled humours -of his last two or three years have already been noted; they do not -amount to much. He permitted himself deliberately to repulse strangers -or slight acquaintances when he felt so disposed; necessarily, if his -time and tranquillity were to be protected. Now and then he was -inconsiderate or blunt to his friends. The concentration of mind, the -sacrifice of immediate inclination, the devotion of energy, involved in -the fulfilment of the career of genius are often but imperfectly -realized even by the friends of a famous man. The great poet, the great -painter, the great musician, has his brilliant rewards. He has also his -bitter disappointments, and one of the hardest of these--which is -especially apportioned to the lot of the creative musician--is the -discovery that, as in the case of other princes and sovereigns of the -world, his path in life must be solitary. Brahms may sometimes have -imagined he had reason for his impoliteness; more frequently a gruff -manner, an awkward joke, was the result of a constitutional want of -presence of mind in trifling matters, which frequently caused him to be -misunderstood. His real attitude is expressed in a note published after -his death by Hanslick in the _Neue Freie Presse_ article from which we -have already more than once quoted.[85] Hanslick had sent him a packet -of letters to read, and had inadvertently enclosed in it one from a -mutual friend which contained a comparison of Beethoven and Brahms. In -it were these words: - - 'He is often offensively rough to his friends like Beethoven, and - is as little able as Beethoven was to free himself entirely from - the effects of a neglected education.' - -Hanslick was very much upset on remembering what he had done, and -immediately wrote to Brahms to throw himself on his mercy and beg his -silence on the matter. The master immediately answered: - - 'DEAR FRIEND - - 'You need not be in the least uneasy. I scarcely read ----'s - letter, but put it back at once into the cover, and only gently - shook my head. I am not to say anything to him--Ah, dear friend, - that happens, unfortunately, quite of itself in my case! That one - is taken even by old acquaintances and friends for something quite - different from what one is (or, apparently, shows one's self in - their eyes) is an old experience with me. I remember how I, - startled and confounded, formerly kept silence in such cases; now - however, quite calmly and as a matter of course. That will sound - harsh or severe to you, good and kind man--yet I hope not to have - wandered too far from Goethe's saying, "Blessed is he who, without - hate, shuts himself from the world."' - -Brahms was ready for another journey to Italy in the spring, but Widmann -was unable to accompany him, and he passed his sixty-third birthday -anniversary in Vienna. When it dawned, the work that was for a short -time generally accepted as his swan-song had been completed. Deiters -writes that the immediate occasion of the composition of the 'Four -Serious Songs' was the death of the artist Max Klinger's father, which -occurred earlier in the year. The not unnatural assumption that has -sometimes seen in these solemn utterances of the great composer a -presentiment of his own fast-approaching end may or may not represent a -fact. It has not been accepted by those of his friends amongst whom he -passed the last few months of his life, and certainly nothing that is -known of his individuality lends likelihood to the notion of his going -out, as it were, to meet the thought of his death. On the other hand, -his repeated assertion that the songs had been composed for his own -birthday points to the possibility that his mind may have been under the -influence of forebodings of which he was, perhaps, but vaguely -conscious. 'Yes, Grüber, we are in the front line now,' he said to his -landlord on hearing of the death of some of the old people in the course -of one of his last summers at Ischl. - -The 'Four Serious Songs' were published in the summer of 1896 with a -dedication to Max Klinger, his personal friend, of whose work, including -that inspired by his own compositions, he became a warm admirer, though -he at first disliked the painter's 'Brahms Fantasie.' - -Three of the songs deal grimly with the thought of death (Eccles. iii. -19-22, iv. 1-3; Ecclus. xli. 1, 2); the fourth has for its text St. -Paul's beautiful glorification of love (1 Cor. xiii. 1-3, 12, 13): - - '_For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; as the - one dieth, so dieth the other, for all is vanity...._ - - '_Though I spake with the tongues of men and of angels, and had not - love, I should be as sounding brass or a tinkling bell...._ - - '_We see now through a glass, in a dark word, but then face to - face. Now I know it partly, but then I shall know it as I am - known._ - - '_Now remain faith, hope, love; but the greatest is love._' - -It is certain that Brahms speaks to us in the songs from the depth of -his convictions. Herr Geheimrath Dr. Engelmann arrived one evening in -the course of the summer on a day's visit to Ischl. Brahms called at his -hotel at six o'clock the next morning, and after breakfast brought his -friend back to his rooms, where they spent several hours together. The -composer was in delight over some lately-arrived volumes of the complete -edition of Schubert's works, then in progress, and could not -sufficiently express his joy in their contents. 'See here,' he said, -with his energetic enthusiasm, as he pointed to one place after another -with beaming face and lightening eyes--'see here, what a splendid fellow -he was! People talk of him as a mere melodist, but look what material he -had even in his early works; look what the melodies are, how they grow.' -By-and-by, taking up a copy of the 'Four Serious Songs,' he said: 'Have -you seen my protest? I wrote these for my birthday.' - -The explanation of these words is that the master viewed with mistrust, -or even dislike, modern efforts to revivify and popularize the services -of the Evangelical Church by the introduction of sacred musical works -composed for the purpose, of which those of Heinrich von Herzogenberg -may be taken as the type. Brahms, who subscribed to no church dogmas, -regarded this tendency as artificial, and therefore as weak and -unhealthy, and much as he admired Herzogenberg's powers, he regretted -that they were dominated during the last ten years of his creative -activity by his strong ecclesiastical bias.[86] Brahms' love of the -Bible and his preference for Scriptural texts was, as we know, not that -of what is conventionally called a 'pietist.' He spoke in the language -of the people's book as a realist who was at the same time an idealist. -He has so arranged the texts of his German Requiem that it would be -difficult to construe the work as the embodiment of a definite belief, -and he expressly refused to enlarge it into an account of the Passion, -Death, and Resurrection of Christ; and yet, as we have endeavoured to -show, it contains the presentiment, the inspiration, of something -positive. From Brahms' standpoint the attempt to go behind the mysteries -of life and death, to construct the unspeakable, the unthinkable, into -verbal formulæ, is not only predoomed to failure, but is almost -irreverent. Yet, as we may remember, 'he had his faith,' and if anything -may be judged of it from the story of his life, the spirit of his works, -this faith lay in acceptance of the immutability of truth, the -sacredness of life, and the sovereignty of love. - -Brahms had been settled in his rooms at Ischl scarcely a fortnight, when -he was profoundly shaken by the tidings of Frau Schumann's death. She -passed away peacefully at her home in Frankfurt on May 20, in the -seventy-seventh year of her age, and was laid to rest by her husband's -side at Bonn on Whit Sunday, May 24. The story of her life, triply -crowned by fame, love, and sorrow, remains amongst the ideal possessions -of the world. - -A great crowd of musicians and friends assembled at the funeral, those -of Frankfurt, Bonn, and Cologne being strongly represented. The custom -of the ceremony had changed with time since Johannes had borne Frau -Clara's laurel-wreath to Schumann's grave, and on the conclusion of the -service, which consisted of the singing of chorales and an address by -Dr. Sell of Bonn University, more than two hundred floral tributes were -piled up around the spot. Joachim with Herzogenberg, bound by Italian -engagements, had attended a service held in the Schumanns' house at -Frankfurt. Woldemar Bargiel and Bernhard Scholz were at the cemetery, -and of our own particular musicians, Stockhausen and Brahms. Another -last meeting. - -On the termination of the service, Brahms, whose agitation had been very -unpleasantly heightened during his journey from Ischl by the delay of a -train, and his consequent anxiety lest he should be late, went to Honnef -to stay till the next day with Herr and Frau Wehermann, the near -relatives of his Crefeld friends, the von Beckeraths and von der Leyens, -who were at the time on a visit there. Professor Richard Barth and his -wife, Dr. Ophüls, and two of the Meiningen musicians, Concertmeister -Eldering and Herr Piening, were also of the party. The master was very -much excited and overcome on his arrival at Honnef, but the soothing -influence of the Rhine country, so closely associated with the -recollections of his youth, did him good, and he prolonged his visit to -nearly a week. Confiding to Barth the day after his arrival that he had -with him something new, which he would like to play very quietly to one -or two chosen listeners, his three most intimate friends retired with -him to a room secure from interruption, impressed by his manner with the -feeling that something unusual was about to ensue. When the little party -had taken their places, Brahms, with every sign of the most profound -emotion, which communicated itself to his companions, played through the -'Four Serious Songs' from the manuscript. 'I wrote them for my -birthday,' he said in the same words which he afterwards used to Dr. -Engelmann. He then played some new organ preludes. - -He was agreeably interested in Dr. Ophüls' project of arranging a -collection of his composed texts. 'I have often wished for such a thing, -for though I do not care to look closely at my music, it would be quite -pleasant to recall it now and then by reading the texts.' The collection -was completed during the ensuing months, and the manuscript placed in -the master's hands.[87] - -Brahms appeared unannounced in Vienna in the middle of June to take part -in the family celebration of Dr. and Frau Fellinger's silver wedding -day. Returning immediately to Ischl, he spent the next few weeks in his -usual fashion, though neither mind nor body really recovered the double -shock of Frau Schumann's death and of the anxious journey to Bonn. He -occupied himself still with his art, and on June 24 had completed seven -organ preludes, which he played to Heuberger on that date at Ischl. -'Splendid pieces,' says Heuberger's diary; and in another entry, dated -July 5: 'Brahms' things must have been sent away already, for he has -promised to show me _new_ compositions.'[88] These were, no doubt, some -more preludes. Eleven were found after Brahms' death, the last four -being written on a different kind of paper from that used for the first -seven. - -The 'Elf Chorale-Vorspiele' (Eleven Chorale-Preludes) for organ are -instrumental movements founded, as their name implies, upon some of the -grand old church tunes for which Germany is famous. They are worked in -florid counterpoint in a style which may be studied, also, in the organ -preludes contained in the third volume of the Leipzig Society's edition -of Bach's works, and are written with an ease to which no other composer -than Brahms has attained in this style since Bach's day. That the great -modern master had studied it during the years of his retirement in the -fifties, before he was in possession of the Society's volumes, seems -certain, from the fact that three old books of Bach's Chorale-Preludes -once belonging to Brahms are still in existence. One, bearing Brahms' -pencil autograph, is in manuscript, possibly that of his father or -brother; the others are early published editions.[89] - -The majority of the chorales selected for treatment in 1896 have death -for their subject, and are written in the profoundly serious vein to -which we are accustomed in the composer's sacred works. The fourth -prelude, 'Herzlich thut mich erfreuen,' is in a somewhat lighter vein -than the others, but is, none the less, absolutely and distinctly -Brahms. One of the most delicately touching is the eighth, 'Es ist ein -Ros' entsprungen.' 'Herzlich thut mir' is the subject of two of the -movements, 'O Welt ich muss dich lassen' of two, of which one is the -eleventh and last. - -It is impossible that we can be mistaken in accepting the -Chorale-Preludes, together with the 'Four Serious Songs' which -immediately preceded them, as indicating the bent of the composer's -thoughts during his last year of life, and we involuntarily apply to -them the words, quoted in the preceding chapter, used by Brahms in -reference to Schumann's theme. They speak to us 'as the message of a -spirit about to depart, and we think with reverence and emotion of the -glorious man and artist.' Nevertheless, a note written by the composer -to Frau Caroline on August 13 contains little sign of his depressed -condition. It opens with charming, simple comments on his stepmother's -last little budget of home news, urges a tour in Norway and Sweden on -Fritz Schnack--'it would give me real pleasure if he would do it, and -tell me all about it afterwards'--and ends: - - 'The summer is not exactly fine, but whoever, like myself, rises - early and can go out walking when he will, may be content and there - are innumerable beautiful walks here. I hope you will continue so - well and write sometimes to - - 'Your heartily greeting JOHANNES.'[90] - -It had not escaped the notice of Brahms' friends, however, that his -ruddy complexion had changed to a yellow colour, and some of them were -courageous enough to speak to him about his health, and urge him to -consult a doctor. At first he showed much annoyance when the subject was -broached, and turned it off impatiently with the reply that, as he never -used a glass, he did not know how he looked. But the uneasiness felt -about his condition increased, and he was at length persuaded to seek -medical advice in Vienna. The doctor whom he consulted did not issue an -alarmist report, but, pronouncing him to be suffering from jaundice, -ordered him to Carlsbad for the 'cure.' Much against his will, the -master, who hated the very idea of waters and cures, and who prided -himself on never having being ill in his life, gave up some pleasant -Ischl engagements, and started on September 2 for Carlsbad. He was met -at the station by two friends of Hanslick, Herr Emil Seling and -Musikdirektor Janetschek, who took him to the 'Stadt Brussels,' near the -Hirschensprung. Here, during the fine autumn days which succeeded the -wet summer, he made himself content, and even wrote cheerful reports to -his friends, in which he expressed satisfaction at having been obliged -to make the acquaintance of the celebrated watering-place. He was the -object of much considerate and respectful attention, which seemed to -cheer him; and Faber came to be near him, accompanied him in his daily -walks, and took tender care of him. - -The report written to Hanslick by the distinguished Carlsbad physician -Dr. Grünberger, after three weeks' careful observation, was ominous. -There was considerable swelling of the liver, with complete blocking of -the gall-passages, and the inevitable results--jaundice, indigestion, -etc. The eminent medical authority could not but regard the condition of -his patient as 'very serious.' - -No more definite name was given to the malady on the master's return to -Vienna after some six weeks' treatment at Carlsbad, and his request that -he should be told 'nothing unpleasant' was scrupulously observed. He -went about as before, dining more frequently, however, with his most -intimate friends the Fellingers, Fabers, Millers, Conrats, Strauss' and -von Hornbostels, and often accepting the offer from one and another of a -seat in a box at the Burg Theater. He became very testy if asked how he -was or if told that he looked better, and answered to every inquiry, -'Each day a little worse,' but continued in letters to his stepmother -and other friends at a distance to keep up the fiction that he was -suffering from an ordinary jaundice which only needed patience. Those -who loved him, however, looked with dismay at the alteration that was -taking place in his appearance. The yellow colour, which had been the -first striking symptom of his condition, was changing gradually to a -darker hue, the bulky figure shrinking to terrible emaciation; the firm -gait was beginning to falter, the head was no longer held erect. A visit -to Vienna, early in December, of Joachim and his colleagues of the -Quartet gave him touching pleasure; he was with them as much as possible -during the day, and generally remained with them, after attending their -concerts, until late at night. He continued to take interest in -important new compositions, and begged Hausmann to come to his rooms to -play him Dvorák's Violoncello Concerto. He accompanied the entire work -on the piano, and broke into enthusiastic admiration at the end of each -movement, exclaiming after the last one, 'Had I known that such a -violoncello concerto as that could be written, I would have tried to -compose one myself!' - -He not only spent Christmas Eve with the Fellingers, but invited himself -to dine with them also on December 25, 26, and 27. Frau Fellinger gave -him a 'secco,' a soft, short coat, as one of her Christmas presents, and -it seemed a sort of comfort to him to put it on when he was at the -house, where it was kept in readiness for his use, and to sit quietly in -the family sitting-rooms without need of exerting himself. After dinner -on the 27th he raised his glass, saying, 'To our meeting in the New -Year,' but by-and-by added, pointing downwards, 'But I shall soon be -there.' He dined again on New Year's Day with the same dear friends, -whose joy it was to feel that they were privileged to afford him some -solace in his weakness and suffering. - -The Joachim party returned to Vienna after a tour in the Austrian -provinces, and gave two concluding concerts in the Börsendorfer Hall on -January 1 and 2, 1897. Ill as he was, Brahms not only attended both -concerts, but came on the morning of the 2nd to Joachim's rooms at the -Hôtel Tegethof to listen to the rehearsal of his G major Quintet, which -was in the evening's programme. He derived peculiar pleasure from -hearing it. 'That is not a bad piece,' he said, as though half ignoring -that it was his own. The scene which took place after the performance of -the work in the evening is remembered with emotion by those who took -part in it. It was the final one in the friendship of Brahms and -Joachim--a friendship as striking and interesting as any contained in -the history of art. Its character may be suggested to the reader's -imagination in a few words written to the author by the great musician -whose love and recognition Brahms enjoyed from beginning to end of his -career. - - 'He had great pleasure that evening in the G major Quintet. It was - touching to see him come before the public to acknowledge the - enthusiasm aroused by his work. The tears were in his eyes and he - was very weak. The people cheered and cheered endlessly.' - -Thus the master's state gradually changed for the worse. He dined with -the Fellingers in the middle of the day on February 7, and seemed -excited and restless throughout the meal. When it was at an end, he -intimated that he wished to be alone with Dr. and Frau Fellinger, and, -retiring with them, began to speak about his affairs. He desired, he -said, to make a new will, but dreaded the necessary formalities to such -a degree that he knew not how to resolve to go through them. Would it -not be possible to arrange his affairs quietly without having to speak -about them with strangers? Dr. Fellinger said it could be done, and that -by the Austrian law things could be so managed that there need not even -be witnesses. The master remained for four hours--from two till six -o'clock--with Dr. and Frau Fellinger, discussed his affairs in minute -detail, and asked Dr. Fellinger to be his curator. He seemed relieved at -the end of the conversation, and stayed on with the family, chatting -about other topics. The following morning Dr. Fellinger took to the -composer at his rooms in Carlsgasse the copy of a will which he had -drawn out to meet Brahms' expressed desires, and explained to him that -he had only to write it out himself, date and sign his name to it, and -it would be valid according to Austrian law. Brahms, who was on the -point of starting out to his dinner, expressed himself as glad and -relieved, and placed the paper in a drawer of his writing-table; and Dr. -Fellinger, pleased to have cheered him, returned home with the -conviction that he would copy it without delay. The master did not -return to the subject at any future meeting with his friends, whilst -they, believing the matter to have been finally settled, did not again -allude to it. - -February passed, and Brahms grew continually worse. Every day he spent a -good deal of time in looking through and destroying old letters and -other papers. 'It is so sad,' he would say, when one or other intimate -friend called and found him thus employed, his stove filled with ashes. -He attended the Philharmonic concert on March 7, when Dvorák's -Violoncello Concerto, played by Hugo Becker, and his own fourth Symphony -in E minor were in the programme. Going into the concert-room he met his -old friend Gänsbacher. 'Ah,' he said, 'you have been so often to see me, -and I cannot go to you, I am so suffering;' then, rousing himself a -little, went on, 'You will hear a piece to-day, a piece by a man!' -(Dvorák's concerto). - -The fourth symphony had never become a favourite work in Vienna. -Received with reserve on its first performance, it had not since gained -much more from the general public of the city than the respect sure to -be accorded there to an important work by Brahms. To-day, however, a -storm of applause broke out at the end of the first movement, not to be -quieted until the composer, coming to the front of the 'artists'' box in -which he was seated, showed himself to the audience. The demonstration -was renewed after the second and the third movements, and an -extraordinary scene followed the conclusion of the work. The applauding, -shouting house, its gaze riveted on the figure standing in the balcony, -so familiar and yet in present aspect so strange, seemed unable to let -him go. Tears ran down his cheeks as he stood there shrunken in form, -with lined countenance, strained expression, white hair hanging lank; -and through the audience there was a feeling as of a stifled sob, for -each knew that they were saying farewell. Another outburst of applause -and yet another; one more acknowledgment from the master; and Brahms and -his Vienna had parted for ever. - -Brahms appeared after the concert at a luncheon-party given by Excellenz -Dumba, a distinguished protector of art in Vienna. About twenty-five -gentlemen, chiefly artists and art-lovers, and the ladies of the house -were present. Brahms was placed near to several of his intimate -friends--Epstein, Conrat, Hanslick, Gänsbacher, and Mandyczewski--but he -was not able to remain long. Within a few days of this date his Ischl -landlady received a postcard from him announcing his intention of going -to Ischl earlier than usual, and desiring that his rooms might be got -ready. The last opera he heard was his friend Goldmark's 'Das Heimchen'; -he entered a theatre for the last time on March 13, sitting with -Hanslick at the production of Johann Strauss' 'Die Göttin der Vernunft,' -but was obliged to leave at the end of the second act, and, much against -his will, suffered a friend to accompany him home in a cab. - -From this time he grew rapidly worse. He complained that he could no -longer remember what he read, but wished for Busch's 'Bismarck,' the -last book with which he tried to occupy himself. He soon became unable -to take a walk even in a friend's care, and Dr. Victor von Miller called -every day in his carriage to take him to drive in the Prater, where the -fresh air somewhat revived him. His strength of will remained phenomenal -to the last. He dragged himself to a rehearsal of the Roeger-Soldat -Quartet party held at Frau Wittgenstein's less than a fortnight before -his death, to hear Weber's Clarinet Quintet with Mühlfeld's -co-operation. A performance of the work at Meiningen had particularly -pleased him, and its inclusion in the Soldat programme was by his -suggestion. In the same week he paid his last visit to the Fabers, and, -whilst ascending the staircase to their flat, nearly fainted with pain. -Herr Faber revived him, and got him on to the drawing-room sofa, where -he sat exhausted, his head on his breast. He was obliged to leave the -family dinner-table of some other intimate friends, and, retiring to the -next room, sank down in agony. Frau Fellinger was ill at this time, and -unable to leave her room. Brahms' last call of inquiry at her house was -made on March 19. - -The master was very gentle during the last months of his life, and -touchingly grateful for every attention shown him. His evenings were of -necessity passed in his rooms, for he firmly refused all the entreaties -of his friends that he would take up his abode in one or another house. -Every evening at dusk he used to place himself at the piano, and -improvise softly for about half an hour, and when too tired to -continue, would sit by the window gazing out on the familiar scene till -long after darkness had set in. On March 24 Frau Door, who had always -been a favourite with him, called to take him a bunch of violets. She -was not admitted, but, observing Dr. von Miller's carriage before the -house door, waited near the entrance, hoping to see Brahms pass out. He -came down in about half an hour leaning on his friend's arm, and, -noticing Frau Door, gave her his hand. 'I am very ill' (Mir geht es sehr -schlecht), he answered faintly to her inquiry. He did not go out again. -The next day Conrat was admitted, and was sitting talking quietly with -him, when Brahms, who was on the sofa smoking, suddenly dropped his -head. 'There must be something in it,' he muttered. Conrat gently left -the room without disturbing him. On the 26th the physician wrote word to -Frau Fellinger that all chance of moving him was over. Brahms did not -leave his bed again. His two or three closest friends were constantly at -his side, whilst his landlady, Frau Truxa, was his faithful and devoted -nurse. He spoke little during the last days, and was too weak to notice -much of what was passing in his room, but he managed on the 29th to -write a few pencil lines from his bed to Frau Caroline: - - 'D. M. For the sake of change I am lying down a little and cannot, - therefore, write comfortably. Otherwise there is no alteration and - as usual, I only need patience. - - 'Affectionately your JOH.'[91] - -A few more weary days and nights, during which the beloved master's life -ebbed rapidly away, bring us to the early morning of April 3. He had -lost consciousness several times in the night and been restored, and had -recognised Faber, who, calling at about six o'clock and performing some -slight service for him, caught the whispered words, 'Du bist ein guter -Mensch' (You are a kind man). It is now nearly nine o'clock, and Brahms -has fallen asleep. Early messages of inquiry have been answered, and -the doctor, who has been at hand during the night, has departed, -promising soon to return. The day has begun with the bright spring -promise that the master was wont to greet year after year with joyful -welcome; the sun shines, a soft breeze enters through the open window; -outside there is a twittering of birds. Near the bed sits the untiring -nurse, noticing the signs of the fast-approaching end. A movement from -the bed claims her assistance. Brahms has opened his eyes, and tries to -raise himself. With Frau Truxa's help he attains a sitting posture, and, -looking at her, tries to speak. The lips move, but the tongue has lost -its power, and he can only utter an inarticulate sound. Great tears roll -down his cheeks; a last sigh, a last breath, and he sinks back, -supported by gentle hands, on to his pillow, rid of his sufferings, -passed quietly to his rest.[92] - -Dr. von Miller, whose house was in the vicinity, was the first of the -friends to receive intelligence of the master's decease. He hurried at -once to Carlsgasse, and was immediately joined by Dr. Fellinger and Herr -Faber. Many others called during the morning, some of whom were admitted -to look at the still features, smoothed by the caress of death into an -expression of noble serenity. A sketch was taken by the painter -Michalek, a mask by Professor Kundemann, a photograph by a private -friend. The cause of death was certified, after a medical examination of -the remains, as degeneration of the liver. The body, in evening dress, -was placed the same afternoon in the coffin, and the room arranged with -candelabra containing lighted candles; on a crimson cushion were -displayed the various orders of the deceased composer. The next day the -arrival began of the flowers, wreaths, crosses, and other floral -tributes that transformed the room into a temple of beauty. - -On the afternoon of the 4th General-Secretary Koch, Dr. Fellinger, and -Herr Faber met in the dwelling, and searched for a will in the presence -of a notary, but only found one written in May, 1891, on two sheets of -paper, the last of them signed and dated, in the form of a letter to -Simrock. This, a legally competent document in its original form, except -for the slight omission of the signature on the first sheet of -paper--which, under the indisputable circumstances establishing the -authenticity of the will, would not have rendered it invalid--had been -returned to the master at his own request by Simrock some time -subsequent to the death of his sister, Elise Grund, in 1892. It was -found, however, to have been marked by Brahms in pencil, some of the -clauses lined out, whilst notes in the margin indicated designed -alterations. These were in exact correspondence with the wishes -expressed by Brahms in February to Dr. and Frau Fellinger, and embodied -by Dr. Fellinger in the paper he had delivered into the hands of the -composer to be copied by himself and signed. Another search was made the -next day, therefore, but it proved fruitless. Only Dr. Fellinger's -manuscript was found, and it must be presumed that Brahms had put off -the dreaded task from day to day in the hope of feeling more capable of -it, until his strength was no longer equal to its fulfilment. Nothing -remained, therefore, but to apply to the proper authorities for the -nomination of a curator in order that the necessary arrangements might -be proceeded with. This was done; Dr. Fellinger was appointed, and on -the afternoon of the 5th the sitting-room which, with the small inner -room leading from it, contained Brahms library, manuscripts, and other -possessions, was formally sealed. The coffin was closed the same day. - -As soon as the master's death became known, the offer of an honorary -grave was made by the city of Vienna. There was no hesitation in -accepting it, but a deliberation was held as to whether the remains -should be taken direct to the Central Friedhof or should be cremated at -Gotha, according to directions contained in the letter to Simrock, and -the ashes only deposited in Vienna. The remembrance of a few words -dropped by Brahms himself when speaking of the 'sacred spot' which -contains the graves of Beethoven and Schubert decided the point. It was -felt that he would have chosen to rest in the place selected for him: -the particular garden of the Friedhof in which the remains of Beethoven -and Schubert lie, and which is sacred also to the memory of Mozart. - - 'All musical Vienna accompanied the great dead to the grave on the - afternoon of April 6 and a stranger not knowing the man's greatness - might have measured it by the number of prominent artists mingling - in the great assemblage of the funeral procession, by the - celebrated men and women who came from afar to show the last honour - to Brahms.' - -Till the hour appointed for the commencement of the ceremony deputations -continued to arrive, from various parts of Europe, from the numerous -societies of which the composer had been an honorary member, and -telegrams and messages to pour in. At one o'clock a deputation from the -Hamburg Senate was admitted to the house to lay a magnificent wreath on -the coffin side by side with that from the Corporation of Vienna. -Wreaths had been sent by the Queen of Hanover, the Duke of Cumberland, -the Princess Marie of Hanover, Duke George of Saxe-Meiningen, the -Princess Marie of Saxe-Meiningen, Helene, Baroness von Heldburg, and -innumerable private friends known and unknown to Brahms; by the Society -of Plastic Arts, Committee of the Opera, Gesellschaft, and other -societies of Vienna; by the Philharmonic Society, Society of -Music-lovers, Cecilia Society of Hamburg; by the Royal Academy of Arts, -Berlin; by the various musical societies of Berlin, Leipzig, Budapest, -Cologne, Salzburg, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Jena, Laubach, Lemberg, Graz, -St. Petersburg, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cambridge, Basle, Zürich, and many -other towns. Six cars scarcely sufficed to hold them. - -The arrangements of the public funeral with which the city of Vienna -honoured the remains of the great composer formed a singular contrast to -the simplicity which had marked the daily habits of his life. Details -may be read in the journals of the time. We shall confine ourselves to -the record of a few of those appropriate to our narrative. The cortège, -followed by the long train of mourners, started from Carlsgasse about -half-past two, and, proceeding to the building of the Gesellschaft der -Musikfreunde, halted before the principal entrance, where arrangements -had been made for a short ceremony, consisting of an address by Herr -Direktor J. R. Fuchs, of the conservatoire, and the singing of Brahms' -part-song 'Fahr'wohl,' for unaccompanied chorus, under the direction of -Richard von Perger, conductor of the Singverein. The procession then -passed on to the Evangelical Church in Dorotheenstrasse, where the -clergy and choir and several of the city dignitaries were assembled. -After the coffin had been carried into the church, the choir sang -Mendelssohn's 'Es ist bestimmt in Gottes' Rath.' The funeral address was -delivered by Dr. von Zimmermann, who especially dwelt on the inspiration -derived by the deceased composer's art from the pages of the Bible, on -his love for children and the childlike spirit, and on his sympathy with -distress. - - 'Wherever he could bring support to the unknown sufferer, the - laborious striver, the helpless, the dying, there, in the man who, - in his own habits, was frugal to the verge of parsimony, was found - the most eager benefactor. The master Johannes Brahms is not dead. - His spirit has conquered death and has entered into the light and - blessed world of the pure harmonies of peace.' - -At the entrance to the Friedhof the coffin was surrounded by personal -friends of the deceased composer, carrying lighted wind-torches, and was -accompanied by them to the grave. They were Ignaz Brüll, Anton Dvorák, -Arthur Faber, Dr. Fellinger, Robert Fuchs, Richard Heuberger, Max -Kalbeck, Ludwig Koch, Eusebius Mandyczewski, Dr. von Miller-Aichholz, -Richard von Perger. At the grave-side Dr. von Perger spoke a few words -of last farewell: - - 'This sacred place is now to receive the mortal remains of our - great contemporary. He who has so enriched and blessed the whole - world, what has he been to us musicians! In the light which - streamed from his creative genius, his penetrating - art-comprehension, we were able to look up confidently to his - incomparable mastership, to his lofty, unbending artistic - intelligence. Amid the countless paths and by-paths which to-day - intersect the domain of musical art, we were guided by the torch - held high and secure by the hand of her first priest. He has met - his worthy spiritual brothers, indeed, for the first time to-day in - this resting-place, but he was always a simple, sympathetic friend - to his living colleagues in art, in spite of the great distance - which raised him above them; always a helper of uprising talent, a - sure and faithful friend in adversity and suffering.... Here thou - restest now, thou blessed of heaven, in this vast, awful - world-solitude; clouds of light float above thee and that of thee - which is immortal floats with them through eternal spaces. Ade - Meister Johannes, fahr'wohl, fahr'wohl.' - -Joachim was in England at the time of Brahms' death, fulfilling -long-contracted engagements. Stockhausen, now a man of seventy-three, -and not in strong health, was at this period unequal to a hurried and -distressing journey from Frankfurt to Vienna. - -Memorial performances were given by the Cecilia Verein, Hamburg, on -April 5, the day preceding the funeral; by the Vienna Gesellschaft on -the 11th; by the Beethoven-Haus Verein, Bonn, in May; by the Royal High -School for Music, Berlin, in the summer; and by innumerable musical -societies of Europe and America during the season 1897-98. In nearly all -instances the German Requiem formed part of such concerts as were -orchestral. - -A clause in Brahms' will provided that any of his unpublished works -found in his rooms after death should be the property of Simrock. There -was one opus only--the eleven Organ Preludes. With them were the -arrangements, as pianoforte duets, of Joachim's two overtures referred -to in an earlier chapter. All three works were published in 1902, a -delay of five years having been caused by difficulties that arose in -connection with the will. Apart from detail, these may be generally -stated as follows: - -Brahms is said to have left, besides his library, which included -valuable autograph musical manuscripts, and a very few personal -possessions, about £20,000 in investments. In the original will three -societies--the Liszt Pensions-Verein of Hamburg, the Czerny Verein and -the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde of Vienna--were named as the -inheritors, subject to the payment of a legacy to the composer's -landlady, Frau Truxa, and of two life-annuities--one to his stepmother, -Frau Caroline Brahms, to be continued after her death to her son, Fritz -Schnack, for his life; the other to Brahms' sister, Elise Grund. These -would practically account for the time being for the income arising from -the investments. - -In the absence of any legally valid document, about twenty cousins of -various degrees of kinship came forward, in answer to advertisements in -the newspapers, as claimants to the property. Litigation ensued, and was -protracted through several years. The original process and the first -appeal were determined in favour of the societies; the second appeal -reversed these decisions, and declared the blood relations to be the -heirs. To prevent the further expense and delay of another appeal, a -compromise was now arrived at by the contending parties, and the general -results of the will, the law-processes, and the compromise have been -that the blood relations have been recognised as the heirs to all but -the library, which is now in the possession of the Gesellschaft der -Musikfreunde; that Frau Truxa's legacy has been paid; and that certain -sums accepted by the societies, by which they will ultimately benefit, -have been invested, and the income arising from them secured for the -payment of the life-annuity to Herr Schnack. (Frau Caroline Brahms died -in the spring of 1902.) - -Projects for the erection of memorials to the master in Hamburg, Vienna, -and Meiningen, were set on foot soon after his death. The first to be -completed has been that now standing in the 'English Garden' at -Meiningen, the unveiling of which was made the occasion of a Memorial -Festival in October, 1899. The bust of the master which it displays is -the work of Professor Hildebrandt. - -The memorial erected at the grave by the heirs, after the final -settlement of the property, designed and executed by Fräulein Ilse -Conrat, was unveiled on May 7, 1903, the seventieth anniversary of -Brahms' birth. It consists of a marble bust and pedestal in front of a -marble headstone, on which are allegorical figures in bas-relief. - -Memorial tablets have been placed by the respective municipalities on -the houses in which Brahms lived in Vienna, Ischl, and Thun, and the -garden of the house at Mürz Zuschlag has been bought by the town and -made into a music-garden. A bronze bust of the master by Frau Dr. -Fellinger stands in the musicians' pavilion. - -A Brahms-Haus has been erected by Dr. von Miller-Aichholz in his private -grounds at Gmünden, the rooms of which are constructed to the exact -dimensions of those occupied by Brahms in Ischl, and furnished with the -Ischl furniture as it used to stand. They contain an interesting -collection of musical and other autographs of the master, photographs, -programmes, and other mementos. - -A Brahms Society has been formed in Vienna for the purpose of collecting -and preserving all available mementos in a special museum. - -Our task is now completed. If it should prove to have been so far -successfully accomplished as to suggest to our readers at all a true -conception of the character and individuality of Brahms, to throw some -additional light upon the spirit which dictated the composition of his -works, our aim will have been achieved. It is as yet far too soon to -attempt any surmise as to the exact ultimate place that he will occupy -amongst the great ones of his art. Schumann's words, however, spoken -rather more than half a century ago, which proclaimed Johannes as the -prophet destined to give ideal presentment to the highest spirit of his -time, have, even now, been surely proved true. Brahms stands immovable -in his position as the representative of the musical thought of the -ages as it has gradually developed through three hundred and fifty years -from Palestrina's day to his own; and in his works dwells the high and -beautiful spirit--the essential spirit of life--which, whilst it knows -no compromise with truth, works out its appointed course in 'faith and -hope and love, these three; and the greatest of them is love.' - -[84] Reimann, p. 109. - -[85] _July 1, 1897._ - -[86] See for an account of Herzogenberg's church music 'Heinrich von -Herzogenberg und die evangelischen Kirchenmusik,' by Friedrich Spitta. -Reprint from the _Monatschrift für Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst_, -1900, No. 11. - -[87] Preface to the 'Vollständige Sammlung der von Johannes Brahms -componirten und musikalisch bearbeiteten Dichtungen,' by Dr. G. Ophüls. - -[88] 'Der musikalische Nachlass von Johannes Brahms,' by Ludwig Karpath. -_Signale_, March 26, 1902. - -[89] In the author's possession. - -[90] First published by Reimann, p. 118. - -[91] Reimann, p. 118. - -[92] See 'Am Sterbebett Brahms,' by Celestine Truxa, _Neue Freie -Presse_, May 7, 1903. - - - - -CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF JOHANNES BRAHMS - -_The references are to the pages of this work._ - - -----+--------------------------------+-----------+---------------------- - OP. | TITLE OF WORK. | PUBLISHED | PAGES. - | | [93] | - -----+--------------------------------+-----------+---------------------- - 1 | Sonata in C major for | 1853 | I. 98, 109, 116, 118, - | Pianoforte | | 129, 131, 132, - | | | 139, 140, 141, - | | | 144, 154, 170, - | | | 281; - | | | II. 180. - 2 | Sonata in F sharp minor for | 1853 | I. 93, 116, 132, 141, - | Pianoforte | | 144, 176, 177, - | | | 281; - | | | II. 180. - 3 | Six Songs for Tenor or | 1854 | I. 141, 145. - | Soprano[94] | | - 4 | Scherzo in E flat minor for | 1854 | I. 90, 108, 116, 131, - | Pianoforte | | 132, 138, 140, - | | | 141, 144, 281; - | | | II. 71. - 5 | Sonata in F minor for | 1854 | I. 117, 133, 135, - | Pianoforte | | 144, 172, 193; - | | | II. 150. - 6 | Six Songs for Soprano or Tenor | 1853 | I. 141, 144, 145. - 7 | Six Songs for one voice | 1854 | I. 145, 167. - 8 | Trio in B major for Pianoforte,| 1854 | I. 154, 161-163, 167, - | Violin and Violoncello | | 193, 215, 217, - | | | 273, 281. - | The same; revised edition | 1891 | I. 162; II. 242. - 9 | Variations on a theme by | 1854 | I. 160, 161, 167, - | Schumann for Pianoforte | | 171, 193, 281. - 10 | Ballades for Pianoforte | 1856 | I. 166, 173, 174, - | | | 191; - | | | II. 103. - 11 | Serenade in D major for large | 1860 | I. 220, 223, 233, - | Orchestra | | 236, 237, 249, - | | | 257, 272, 281; - | | | II. 11-13, 21, 39, - | | | 88. - 12 | Ave Maria for women's Chorus | 1861 | I. 239, 241, 246, - | with accompaniment for | | 256, 257, 281. - | Orchestra or Organ | | - 13 | Funeral Song for Chorus and | 1861 | I. 245, 246, 256, - | Wind instruments | | 263, 281. - 14 | Songs and Romances for one | 1861 | I. 257; - | voice | | II. 82. - 15 | Concerto in D minor for | | I. 30, 167, 207, 220, - | Pianofortewith accompaniment | | 222, 223, 225-235, - | for Orchestra | | 256, 257, 281; - | | | II. 38, 42, 101, - | | | 102-104, 136, - | | | 145, 146, 198. - 16 | Serenade in A major for small | 1860 | I. 247, 257, 260, - | Orchestra | | 273, 281; - | | | II. 14-16, 103, - | | | 112, 135. - | The same; revised edition | 1875 | - 17 | Songs for women's Chorus with | 1862 | I. 242, 262. - | accompaniment for two | | - | Horns and a Harp | | - 18 | Sextet in B flat major for two | 1862 | I. 19, 259, 260, 270, - | Violins, two Violas and two | | 274, 278, 281; - | Violoncellos | | II. 14, 22, 23, 53, - | | | 86, 102, 113, - | | | 175. - 19 | Five Songs for one voice | 1862 | I. 281. - 20 | Three Duets for Soprano and | 1861 | I. 260, 281. - | Contralto with Pianoforte | | - | accompaniment | | - 21, |} Variations on an original | 1861 | I. 260, 281; II. 71. - No. 1|} theme for Pianoforte | | - 21, |} Variations on a Hungarian | 1861 | I. 211, 260, 281; - No. 2|} air for Pianoforte | | II. 103. - 22 | Marienlieder for mixed Chorus | 1862 | I. 278, 279, 280, - | _a capella_ | | 281; - | | | II. 15, 163. - 23 | Variations on a theme by | 1863 | I. 278, 279; - | Schumann for Pianoforte | | II. 15, 40, 93, 103. - | Duet | | - 24 | Variations and Fugue on a | 1862 | I. 238, 269, 270, - | theme by Handel for | | 272, 280, 281; - | Pianoforte | | II. 7, 8, 54, 103, - | | | 180. - 25 | Quartet in G minor for | 1863 | I. 245, 259, 270, - | Pianoforte, Violin, Viola | | 271, 274, 281; - | and Violoncello | | II. 6, 7, 40, 103, - | | | 135, 144, 175. - 26 | Quartet in A major for | 1863 | I. 259, 267, 271, - | Pianoforte, Violin, Viola | | 274, 281; - | and Violoncello | | II. 6-10, 79, 102, - | | | 144. - 27 | The 13th Psalm for three-part | 1864 | I. 241, 281; II. 26. - | women's Chorus with | | - | Pianoforte accompaniment | | - 28 | Duets for Alto and Baritone | 1864 | I. 281; - | with accompaniment for | | II. 26, 79, 102. - | Pianoforte | | - 29 | Two Motets for five-part mixed | 1864 | I. 281; - | Chorus _a capella_ | | II. 26. - 30 | Sacred Song (by Paul Fleming) | 1864 | I. 281; - | for four-part mixed | | II. 26. - | Chorus with accompaniment | | - | for Organ or Pianoforte | | - 31 | Three Quartets for Solo voices | 1864 | I. 281; - | with Pianoforte | | II. 24, 26, 38, 113, - | | | 267. - 32 | Songs for one voice | 1864 | II. 26. - 33 | Romances from Tieck's | 1865 | I. 264, 265, 275, - | 'Magelone' for one voice. | | 276, 278, 281; - | Nos. 1-6 | | II. 35, 70. - | " 7-15 | 1868 | II. 38, 83. - 34 | Quintet for Pianoforte, two | 1865 | I. 259, 277; - | Violins, Viola and | | II. 32, 35, 36, 51, - | Violoncello | | 76, 103. - 34 |}Sonata for two Pianofortes | 1872 | I. 277; II. 23, 24, - _bis_|} (after the Quintet) | | 32, 35. - 35 | Variations on a theme by | 1866 | II. 24, 43, 54, 112, - | Paganini for Pianoforte. | | 180. - | (Two sets) | | - 36 | Sextet in G major for two | 1866 | I. 259; - | Violins, two Violas and two | | II. 43, 47, 52, 102, - | Violoncellos | | 113. - 37 | Three Sacred Choruses for | 1866 | I. 239, 242; II. 43. - | women's voices without | | - | accompaniment | | - 38 | Sonata in E minor for | 1866 | II. 31, 43, 113. - | Pianoforte and Violoncello | | - 39 | Waltzes for Pianoforte Duet | 1867 | II. 25, 68, 79. - 40 | Trio for Pianoforte, Violin | 1866 | I. 259; - | and French Horn | | II. 31, 38, 39, 43, - | | | 51, 68, 113. - 41 | Five Songs for four-part men's | 1867 | II. 68. - | Chorus | | - 42 | Three Songs for six-part | 1868 | II. 83. - | Chorus _a capella_ | | - 43 | Four Songs for one voice | 1868 | II. 81. - 44 | Twelve Songs and Romances for | 1868 | I. 242, 256, 262; - | women's Chorus. Pianoforte | | II. 83. - | accompaniment _ad libitum_ | | - 45 | A German Requiem for Soli, | 1868 | I. 6, 167, 238; - | Chorus and Orchestra (Organ | | II. 44, 48, 50, 54, - | _ad libitum_) | | 55, 59-68, 72-78, - | | | 81, 86-88, 90, - | | | 93, 98, 102, 111, - | | | 114, 140, 141, - | | | 156, 167, 169, - | | | 180, 195, 201. - 46 | Four Songs for one voice | 1868 | II. 81 - 47 | Five Songs for one voice | 1868 | II. 81, 82. - 48 | Seven Songs for one voice | 1868 | II. 81, 82. - 49 | Five Songs for one voice | 1868 | II. 81, 82. - 50 | Rinaldo (Cantata by Goethe) | 1869 | II. 84, 85, 90, 94, - | for Tenor solo, men's | | 135. - | Chorus and Orchestra | | - 51 | Two Quartets for two Violins, | 1873 | II. 48, 113, 122, - | Viola and Violoncello (C | | 124, 128, 130, - | minor and A minor) | | 140, 147. - 52 | Love Songs. Waltzes for | 1869 | II. 93, 94, 103, 113. - | Pianoforte Duet with voices | | - | _ad libitum_ | | - 53 | Rhapsody (Fragment from | 1870 | II. 93-97, 135, 141, - | Goethe's 'Harzreise') for | | 183. - | Contralto solo, men's Chorus | | - | and Orchestra | | - 54 | Song of Destiny for Chorus and | 1871 | I. 238; II. 77, - | Orchestra | | 104-106, 108, 114, - | | | 136, 155, 205. - 55 | Song of Triumph for eight-part | 1872 | I. 238; II. 98-101, - | Chorus and Orchestra (Organ | | 111, 112, 114-119, - | _ad libitum_) | | 132, 136, 137, - | | | 146, 180, 183, - | | | 267, 269. - 56A | Variations on a theme by | Jan. 1874 | II. 121, 128, 129, - | Joseph Haydn for Orchestra | | 135, 136, 145, - | | | 195. - 56B | Variations on a theme by | Nov. 1873 | II. 121, 130. - | Joseph Haydn for two | | - | Pianofortes | | - 57 | Songs for one voice | 1871 | II. 106. - 58 | Songs for one voice | 1871 | II. 106. - 59 | Songs for one voice | 1873 | II. 130. - 60 | Quartet in C minor for | 1875 | I. 207, 220; - | Pianoforte, Violin, Viola | | II. 138, 143, 144. - | and Violoncello | | - 61 | Four Duets for Soprano and | 1874 | II. 138. - | Contralto with Pianoforte | | - 62 | Seven Songs for mixed Chorus | 1874 | II. 138, 139. - | _a capella_ | | - 63 | Songs for one voice | 1874 | II. 138. - 64 | Quartets for Solo voices with | 1874 | II. 138. - | Pianoforte | | - 65 | New Love Songs. Waltzes for | 1875 | II. 103, 138. - | four Solo voices and | | - | Pianoforte Duet | | - 66 | Five Duets for Soprano and | 1875 | - | Contralto with Pianoforte | | - | accompaniment | | - 67 | Quartet in B flat major for | 1876 | II. 146, 147. - | two Violins, Viola and | | - | Violoncello | | - 68 | Symphony in C minor for large | 1877 | I. 133, 220, 280; - | Orchestra. (No. 1) | | II. 114, 142, - | | | 147-156, 162, - | | | 163, 166, 168, - | | | 184, 195, - | | | 198-220. - 69 | Nine Songs for one voice | 1877 | II. 162. - 70 | Four Songs for one voice | 1877 | II. 162. - 71 | Five Songs for one voice | 1877 | II. 162. - 72 | Five Songs for one voice | 1877 | II. 162. - 73 | Symphony in D major for large | 1878 | II. 142, 163-166, - | Orchestra. (No. 2) | | 170, 171, 174, - | | | 176, 183, 220. - 74 | Two Motets for mixed Chorus | 1879 | II. 177. - | _a capella_ | | - 75 | Ballads and Romances for two | 1878 | I. 166; II. 176. - | voices with Pianoforte | | - | accompaniment | | - 76 | Pianoforte Pieces. (Two books) | 1879 | II. 170, 179, 181, - | | | 257. - 77 | Concerto in D major for Violin | 1879 | II. 170, 177-179, - | with accompaniment for | | 181, 188. - | Orchestra | | - 78 | Sonata in G major for | 1880 | II. 122, 179, - | Pianoforte and Violin | | 181-183, 184. - 79 | Two Rhapsodies for Pianoforte | 1880 | II. 183, 184, 189, - | | | 256. - 80 | Academic Festival Overture for | 1881 | II. 104, 189, 190, - | large Orchestra | | 192, 195, 201, - | | | 270. - 81 | Tragic Overture for Orchestra | 1881 | II. 189, 190, 192, - | | | 195, 201. - 82 | Nänie (by Friedrich Schiller) | 1881 | II. 29, 192, 193, - | for Chorus and Orchestra | | 196-198, 205, - | (Harp _ad libitum_) | | 206. - 83 | Concerto for Pianoforte in | 1882 | I. 27, 33; - | B flat major with | | II. 193, 194, 195, - | accompaniment for Orchestra | | 198-201, 231, - | | | 267, 270. - 84 | Romances and Songs for one or | 1882 | II. 201. - | for two voices with | | - | Pianoforte accompaniment | | - 85 | Six Songs for one voice | 1882 | II. 201. - 86 | Six Songs for a deep voice | 1882 | II. 201. - 87 | Trio in C major for Pianoforte,| 1883 | II. 203, 204. - | Violin and Violoncello | | - 88 | Quintet in F major for two | 1883 | II. 203, 204. - | Violins, two Violas and | | - | Violoncello | | - 89 | Song of the Fates (by Goethe) | 1883 | II. 202, 203, - | for six-part Chorus and | | 204-207. - | Orchestra | | - 90 | Symphony in F major for large | 1884 | II. 207-210, 220. - | Orchestra. (No. 3) | | - 91 | Two Songs for Contralto with | 1884 | II. 33, 210. - | Viola and Pianoforte | | - 92 | Quartets for Soprano, | 1884 | II. 210. - | Contralto, Tenor and Bass | | - | with Pianoforte | | - 93A | Songs and Romances for | 1884 | II. 210, 288. - | four-part mixed Chorus | | - | _a capella_ | | - 93B | Tafellied for six-part mixed | 1885 | II. 213. - | Chorus with Pianoforte | | - 94 | Five Songs for a deep voice | 1884 | II. 210, 211. - 95 | Seven Songs for one voice | 1884 | II. 210. - 96 | Four Songs for one voice | 1886 | II. 229. - 97 | Six Songs for one voice | 1886 | II. 229. - 98 | Symphony in E minor for large | 1886 | II. 211, 215, - | Orchestra (No. 4) | | 216-220, 229, - | | | 255, 267, 282. - 99 | Sonata in F major for | 1887 | II. 222, 223, 229. - | Pianoforte and Violoncello | | - 100 | Sonata in A major for | 1887 | II. 222, 223-225, - | Pianoforte and Violin | | 229. - 101 | Trio in C minor for Pianoforte,| 1887 | II. 222, 229. - | Violin and Violoncello | | - 102 | Concerto in A minor for Violin | 1888 | II. 230, 231, 232, - | and Violoncello with | | 233. - | accompaniment for Orchestra | | - 103 | Gipsy Songs for four Solo | 1888 | II. 233, 234. - | voices with Pianoforte | | - | accompaniment | | - 104 | Five Songs for mixed Chorus | 1889 | II. 238. - | _a capella_ | | - 105 | Five Songs for a deep voice | 1889 | II. 238. - 106 | Five Songs for one voice | 1889 | II. 238. - 107 | Five Songs for one voice | 1889 | II. 238. - 108 | Sonata in D minor for | 1889 | II. 238. - | Pianoforte and Violin | | - 109 | Fest and Gedenksprüche for | 1890 | II. 240, 241. - | double Chorus | | - | _a capella_ | | - 110 | Three Motets for four- and | 1890 | II. 242, 246. - | eight-part Chorus | | - 111 | Quintet in G major for two | 1891 | II. 246-248, 251, - | Violins, two Violas and | | 280, 281. - | Violoncello | | - 112 | Six Quartets for Soprano, | 1891 | II. 251. - | Contralto, Tenor and Bass | | - | with Pianoforte | | - 113 | Thirteen Canons for women's | 1891 | II. 251. - | voices | | - 114 | Trio in A minor for | 1892 | I. 40; - | Pianoforte, Clarinet (or | | II. 249-251, 261. - | Viola) and Violoncello | | - 115 | Quintet in B minor for | 1892 | I. 39; - | Clarinet (or Viola), two | | II. 249-251, 261. - | Violins, Viola and | | - | Violoncello | | - 116 | Fantasias for Pianoforte (two | 1892 | II. 251, 258. - | books) | | - 117 | Three Intermezzi for | 1892 | I. 166; II. 251, 257, - | Pianoforte | | 258. - 118 | Pianoforte Pieces | 1893 | II. 256, 261. - 119 | Pianoforte Pieces | 1893 | II. 256, 261. - 120 | Two Sonatas for Clarinet (or | 1895 | II. 265, 266, 267. - | Viola) and Pianoforte (F | | - | minor and E flat major) | | - 121 | Four Serious Songs for a Bass | 1896 | II. 273, 274, 276, - | voice | | 277. - 122 | Eleven Chorale-Preludes for | 1902 | II. 276-278, 289. - | Organ (the only posthumous | | - | work) | | - -----+--------------------------------+-----------+---------------------- - - -WORKS WITHOUT OPUS NUMBER - - -------------------------------------+--------------+-------------- - TITLE OF WORK. | PUBLISHED | PAGES. - -------------------------------------+--------------+-------------- - Song, 'Mondnacht,' for one voice | 1854 | - republished | 1872 | - Children's Folk-songs with added | 1858 | I. 220. - Pianoforte accompaniment | | - German Folk-songs arranged for | 1864 | II. 26. - four-part Chorus | | - Fugue in A flat minor for Organ | 1864 | II. 26. - Studies for Pianoforte (Nos. 1 and 2)| 1869 | I. 67; - after Chopin and Weber | | II. 98. - Hungarian Dances arranged for | 1869 | II. 79, 98. - Pianoforte Duet, Books 1 and 2 | | - Gavotte by Gluck arranged for | 1871 | I. 201; - Pianoforte | | II. 106. - Hungarian Dances arranged for | 1872 | I. 222; - | | II. 79, 98. - Pianoforte solo, Books 1 and 2 | | - Hungarian Dances arranged for | 1874 | I. 135. - Orchestra, Nos. 1, 3, 10 | | - Studies for Pianoforte (Nos. 3, 4, 5)| 1879 | II. 181. - after Bach | | - Hungarian Dances arranged for | 1880 | II. 184. - Pianoforte Duet, Books 3, 4 | | - Chorale-Prelude and Fugue for Organ | 1881 | I. 219; - | | II. 138. - Fifty-one Technical Exercises for | 1893 | II. 256. - Pianoforte. (Two books) | | - German Folk-songs with Pianoforte | 1894 | I. 80; - accompaniment. (Seven books) | | II. 261, 262. - Arrangements of Joachim's Overtures | 1902 | II. 92, 289. - to 'Henry IV.' and 'Demetrius' | | - as Pianoforte Duets | | - -------------------------------------+--------------+-------------- - - -WORKS EDITED BY BRAHMS - - Couperin: Clavier Compositions. (Chrysander's 'Denkmäle der - Tonkunst.') - - Mozart: Requiem. (Breitkopf and Härtel's critically revised - complete edition.) - - Schubert: Three Pianoforte pieces. - - Schumann: Supplementary volume to Clara Schumann's complete - edition. - -Brahms' name appears for the first time in 1878 in the list of the -committee of the Leipzig Society's edition of Bach's works. - -[93] The dates of publication here printed are those given in Simrock's -published Thematic Catalogue of Brahms' works, excepting in the few -instances especially indicated in the main narrative. - -[94] Unless otherwise described, all songs for a single voice are -composed with pianoforte accompaniment only. - - - - -ARRANGED CATALOGUE OF WORKS - - -INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC - -FOR ORCHESTRA. - - Op. 11. Serenade, D major - Op. 16. " A major - Op. 56A Variations, Haydn's Theme - Op. 68. Symphony, C minor - Op. 73. " D major - Op. 90. " F major - Op. 98. " E minor - Op. 80. Overture, Academic - Op. 81. " Tragic - Arrangement: 3 Hungarian Dances - -PIANOFORTE WITH ORCHESTRA. - - Op. 15. Concerto, D minor - Op. 83. " B flat major - -PIANOFORTE SOLOS. - - Op. 1. Sonata, C major - Op. 2. " F sharp minor - Op. 5. " F minor - Op. 4. Scherzo, E flat minor - Op. 10. Ballades - Op. 9. Variations, Schumann's Theme - Op. 21,} " Original Theme - No. 1 } - Op. 21,} " Hungarian Air - No. 2 } - Op. 24. Variations and Fugue, Handel's Theme - Op. 35. Variations, Paganini's Theme - Op. 76. Pianoforte Pieces, 2 books - Op. 79. Two Rhapsodies - Op. 116. Fantasias, 2 books - Op. 117. Three Intermezzi - Op. 118. Pianoforte Pieces - Op. 119. " " - Technical Exercises, 2 bks. - Arrangement: Hungarian Dances, 2 books - " Studies 1-5 - " Gavotte by Gluck - -PIANOFORTE DUETS. - - Op. 23. Variations, Schumann's Theme - Op. 39. Waltzes - Op. 52A Waltzes - Arrangement: Hungarian Dances, 4 books - -TWO PIANOFORTES. - - Op. 34} Sonata in F minor (after - _bis_} the Pianoforte Quintet) - Op. 56B. Variations, Haydn's Theme - -PIANOFORTE AND VIOLIN. - - Op. 78. Sonata, G major - Op. 100. " A major - Op. 108. " D minor - -PIANOFORTE AND VIOLONCELLO. - - Op. 38. Sonata, E minor - Op. 99. " F major - -PIANOFORTE AND CLARINET (OR VIOLA). - - Op. 120,} Sonata, F minor - No. 1 } - Op. 120,} " E flat major - No. 2 } - -TRIOS. - - Op. 8. Pianoforte, Violin, Violoncello, B major - Op. 87. Pianoforte, Violin, Violoncello, C major - Op. 101. Pianoforte, Violin, Violoncello, C minor - Op. 40. Pianoforte, Violin, Horn, E flat major - Op. 114. Pianoforte, Clarinet, Violoncello, A minor - -QUARTETS. - - Op. 25. Pianoforte, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, G minor - Op. 26. Pianoforte, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, A major - Op. 60. Pianoforte, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, C minor - -QUINTET. - - Op. 34. Pianoforte, 2 Violins, Viola, Violoncello, F minor - -PIANOFORTE WITH VOICES. - - Op. 52. Liebeslieder, Waltzer (voices _ad libitum_) - Op. 65. Neue Liebeslieder - -ORGAN. - - Op. 122. Eleven Chorale-Preludes - Chorale-Prelude and Fugue - Fugue in A minor - -STRINGS WITH ORCHESTRA. - - Op. 77. Violin Concerto, D major - Op. 102. Concerto for Violin and Violoncello, A minor - -STRING QUARTETS. - - Op. 51,} C minor - No. 1.} - Op. 51,} A minor - No. 2.} - Op. 67. B flat major - -STRING QUINTETS. - - Op. 88. F major - Op. 111. G major - Op. 115. Quintet for Clarinet, 2 - Violins, Viola, Violoncello, - B minor - -STRING SEXTETS. - - Op. 18. B flat major - Op. 36. G major - - -VOCAL MUSIC - -MIXED CHORUS WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT. - - Op. 22. Marienlieder - Op. 29. Two Motets; five-part - Op. 42. Three Songs (Gesänge); six-part - Op. 62. Seven Songs (Lieder) - Op. 74. Two Motets; four- and six-part - Op. 93A Songs (Lieder) and Romances - Op. 104. Songs (Gesänge) - Op. 109. Fest and Gedenksprüche - Op. 110. Three Motets; four- and eight-part - German Folk-songs (dedicated - to the Vienna Singakademie) - -WOMEN'S CHORUS WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT. - - Op. 37. Three Sacred Choruses - Op. 44. Twelve Songs and Romances - Op. 113. Thirteen Canons - -MEN'S CHORUS WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT. - - Op. 41. Five Songs (Lieder) - -VOCAL MUSIC WITH ORCHESTRAL ACCOMPANIMENT. - - Op. 12. Ave Maria: women's Chorus - Op. 45. A German Requiem: Soli and Chorus - Op. 50. Rinaldo: Tenor Solo and men's Chorus - Op. 53. Rhapsody: Contralto Solo and men's Chorus - Op. 54. Song of Destiny: mixed Chorus - Op. 55. Triumph-Song: double Chorus - Op. 82. Nänie: mixed Chorus - Op. 89. Song of the Fates: mixed Chorus - -VOCAL MUSIC VARIOUSLY ACCOMPANIED. - - Op. 13. Funeral Song: mixed Chorus and Wind - Op. 17. Songs for women's Chorus with accompaniment for - 2 Horns and a Harp - Op. 91. Two Songs for Contralto with Viola and Pianoforte - -CHORUSES WITH PIANOFORTE OR ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT. - - Op. 12. Ave Maria: women's Chorus - Op. 27. The 13th Psalm: women's Chorus - Op. 30. Sacred Song: mixed Chorus - -CHORUSES WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. - - Op. 93B. Tafellied: mixed Voices - German Folk-songs - -VOCAL QUARTETS WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. - - Op. 31. Three Quartets - Op. 64. " " - Op. 92. Four " - Op. 112. Six " - Op. 52. Love Songs (Pianoforte duet) - Op. 65. New Love Songs (Pianoforte duet) - Op. 103. Gipsy Songs - -VOCAL DUETS WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. - - Op. 20. Soprano and Contralto - Op. 61. " " - Op. 66. " " - Op. 28. Contralto and Baritone - Op. 75. Ballads and Romances - Op. 84. Romances and Songs - -SONGS FOR ONE VOICE WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT. - - Op. 3. 6 Gesänge - Op. 6. 6 " - Op. 7. 6 " - Op. 14. 8 Lieder und Romanzen - Op. 19. 5 Gedichte - Op. 32. 9 Lieder und Gesänge - Op. 33. 15 Magelone Romanzen - Op. 43. 4 Gesänge - Op. 46. 4 " - Op. 47. 5 Lieder - Op. 48. 7 " - Op. 49. 5 " - Op. 57. 8 Lieder und Gesänge - Op. 58. 8 " " - Op. 59. 8 " " - Op. 63. 9 " " - Op. 69. 9 Gesänge - Op. 70. 4 " - Op. 71. 5 " - Op. 72. 5 " - Op. 84. 5 Romanzen und Lieder - Op. 85. 6 Lieder - Op. 86. 6 " - Op. 94. 5 " - Op. 95. 7 " - Op. 96. 4 " - Op. 97. 6 " - Op. 105. 5 " - Op. 106. 5 " - Op. 107. 5 " - Op. 121. 4 Gesänge - Mondnacht - (Total 195 Songs) - German Folk-songs - Children's Folk-songs - - - - - INDEX - - FOR INDEX OF WORKS, SEE CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE, P. 293. - - - A. - - Abel, II. 50, 51. - Aegidi, I. 259. - Ahle, J. H., II. 130. - Ahna, de, II. 204. - Ahsen, Jenny v., I. 239. - Albers, I. 73. - Albert, Eugen d', II. 232, 267, 270. - Albrechtsberger, I. 64, 67. - Allgeyer, Julius, I. 166; - II. 29, 42, 44, 90, 93, 104, 120, 159, 176, 185. - Arien, d', I. 84. - Arnim, Bettina v., I. 144. - " Gisela v., I. 195. - Artôt, I. 83. - Asmus, Christiana, I. 46. - Astor, II. 134. - Austria, Francis Joseph, Emperor of, II. 242. - - - B. - - Bach, Friedemann, II. 71. - " Philipp Emanuel, I. 113, 188. - " Johann Sebastian, I. 12, 13, 17, 18, 63, 65, 146, 188, 216, 234, - 244; - II. 20, 23, 115, 116, 119, 120, 130, 136, 141, - 148, 155, 168, 172, 180, 182, 218, 267, - 269, 277. - " Works of, played by Brahms on the pianoforte, - I. 15, 16, 185, 199, 201, 209, 215, 221, 235, - 272; - II. 13, 39, 40, 54, 60, 71, 86, 102. - Bachrich, II. 143, 246. - Bächthold, II. 229, 262. - Backhaus, I. 73. - Bade, Carl, I. 54; - II. 57, 80, 175. - Baden, Frederick, Grand-Duke of, II. 29. - Bagge, Selmar, II. 4, 26. - Baglehole, II. 102. - Balcke, I. 98. - Barbi, Alice, II. 270. - Bargheer, Carl, I. 208-210, 214, 215, 217, 245, 247; - II. 41, 137, 171, 204. - Bargiel, Woldemar, I. 126, 218, 275; - II. 187, 275. - Barth, Heinrich, II. 200, 204. - " Richard, II. 73, 183, 276. - Baumeyer, Marie, II. 201. - Baumgarten and Heins, I. 68, 88, 192. - Bavaria, Ludwig II., King of, I. 127, 131. - Bechstein, II. 195. - Becker, Dr., I. 257. - " Frau, I. 36. - " Hugo, II. 230, 282. - Beckerath, Alwyn v., II. 183, 213, 275. - Beethoven, Ludwig van, I. 104, 180, 197, 267, 283, 285, 289; - II. 1, 20, 23, 119, 123, 130, 139, 140, 148, - 152, 155, 164, 168, 171, 172, 177, 181, - 189, 198, 200, 212, 217, 218, 267, 287. - " Works played by Brahms, I. 59, 84, 96, 98, 186, 191, 199, - 206, 209, 215, 263, 272; - II. 13, 40, 54, 60, 70, 71, 86, - 139. - Begas, I. 92. - Bellini, I. 180. - Bennet, John, II. 25. - Bennett, W. Sterndale, I. 128, 197; II. 155. - Bergmann, Carl, I. 163. - Berlioz, Hector, I. 100, 124, 135, 136, 138, 139, 147, 286, 288; - II. 139. - Bernhard de Trèves, I. 290. - Berninger, II. 73. - Bernsdorf, Edward, I. 227, 228, 229; - II. 134, 154, 178. - Bernstorff, Countess, I. 107. - Bernuth, Julius v., II. 70, 166, 176, 183, 210. - Bibl, Rudolf, II. 4, 20, 117, 119. - Billroth, Theodor, II. 46, 47, 60, 62, 84, 90, 115, 119, 124, 137, - 140, 142, 149, 150, 163, 169, 184, 199, 201, - 203, 207, 237, 239, 240, 247, 248, 256, 258, - 259. - Birgfeld, I. 59, 79. - Bismarck, Otto v., II. 137, 240, 283. - Bizet, G., II. 242. - Blagrove, Henry, II. 53. - Blume, Amtsvogt, I. 78, 80, 94, 117, 164. - " Calculator, I. 97. - " " Frau, I. 98. - Bocklet, C. M. v., I. 64. - Böhm, Josef, I. 92, 102. - Böhme, F. M., II. 262. - Böie, John, I. 261, 268, 270, 277; - II. 143, 175. - Böie, Marie, I. 123, 266. - See also under Völckers. - Boieldieu, F. A., I. 236, 255; - II. 71. - Bölling, Bertha, I. 176, 184. - Boni, II. 94. - Borrisow, Rev. L., II. 103. - Börs, I. 84. - Börsendorfer, II. 9, 10. - Borwick, Leonard, II. 201. - Bosshard, II. 196. - Boston Symphony Orchestra, I. 273. - Brahms, Caroline, II. 45, 49, 79, 109, 110, 142, 175, 201, 253-255, - 278, 284, 290. - " Elise, I. 51, 74, 142, 205, 218; - II. 22, 27, 34, 35, 110, 175, 176. - See also under Grund. - " Fritz, I. 53, 70, 81; - II. 10, 27, 109-111, 175. - " Johann, I. 46. - " Johann Jakob, I. 48-60, 87, 130, 142; - II. 27, 35, 37, 38, 45, 49, 57-59, 73, 78, 79, - 80, 108, 109, 175, 176. - " Johanna Christiana, I. 51-54, 75, 81, 95, 121, 142; - II. 9, 34, 35. - See also under Nissen. - " Peter, I. 45, 46. - " Peter Hinrich, I. 47. - Brahmüller, II. 51. - Brandes, Emma, See Engelmann. - Brandt, Auguste, I. 239. - Branscheidt, II. 187. - Brassin, Louis, II. 88. - Breitkopf and Härtel, I. 123, 124, 129, 135, 141, 144, 162, 187, 191; - II. 26, 138. - Brendel, Franz, I. 102, 128, 138, 139, 249-253, 274, 275; - II. 95. - Brentano, Arnim, I. 169. - Breyther, F., I. 261, 270. - Broadwood, I. 197; II. 200. - Brodsky, II. 179. - Brouillet, II. 94. - Bruch, Max, II. 51, 73, 141, 168, 177. - Brückner, Anton, II. 4. - Brüll, Ignaz, II. 153, 163, 202, 207, 240, 288. - Bruyck, Carl Debrois van, I. 193, 194. - Bülow, Hans v., I. 26-31, 100, 103, 124, 128, 133, 139, 154, 211, - 217, 252; - II. 50-52, 148, 183, 191, 192, 198, 216, 217, 218, - 231, 232, 238, 241. - " Marie v., II. 51. - Bulthaupt, Heinrich, II. 91, 92, 157. - Burnett, II. 103. - Busch, II. 283. - Buths, Julius, II. 104. - - - C. - - Calderon, II. 91, 159. - Candidus, Carl, II. 162. - Carlyle, Thomas, I. 276. - Chamisso, Adalbert v., I. 89. - Chappell, S. Arthur, II. 53, 103. - Cherubini M. Luigi, I. 228; - II. 172. - Chopin, Frederic, I. 109; - II. 256. - Chorley, Henry, I. 180. - Chrysander, Friedrich, I. 283. - Cicero, I. 89. - Clasing, Heinrich, I. 63, 150. - Claus, Wilhelmine, I. 177. - Clementi, Muzio, I. 10, 21, 58. - Cobb, Gerard F., II. 103. - Conrat, Frau, II. 260. - " Hugo, II. 233, 234, 251, 260, 279, 282, 284. - " Ilse, II. 260, 261, 291. - Cordes, August, I. 215. - Cornelius, Peter, I. 103, 124; - II. 4, 14. - Cornet, Madame, I. 83, 84, 85, 90. - " Fräulein, I. 83, 84. 85. - See also under Passy-Cornet. - Cossel, Frau, I. 69; - II. 34, 175. - " Johanna, II. 34, 35. - " Marie, II. 175. - See also under Janssen. - " Otto Friedrich Willibald, I. 56-62, 66, 118, 143; - II. 175, 244. - Cossmann, Bernhard, I. 103, 140; - II. 31. - Couperin, François, I. 283; - II. 86. - Cramer, John, I. 58. - Cranz, August, I. 86; - II. 26, 83. - Cusins, G. W., II. 87, 103, 136, 156, 179. - Czartoriska, Prince Constantin, II. 18. - Czerny, Carl, I. 12, 58; - II. 290. - - - D. - - Dalfy, II. 20. - Dalwigk, Reinhard v., II. 10. - Dante, I. 89. - Danzer, II. 20. - Daumer, G. F., II. 93, 106. - David, Ferdinand, I. 140, 179, 180, 256, 263, 270; - II. 133, 135. - Davidoff, C., I. 263, 270. - Davies, Fanny, II. 233, 238, 250, 266. - Davison, J. W., I. 227. - Deichmann, I. 115-117. - Deiters, Hermann, I. 201; - II. 4, 77, 78, 81, 94, 122, 154, 162, 189, 272. - Denninghoff-Giesemann, I. 263-265. - See also under Giesemann. - Derenberg See under Eibenschütz. - Dessoff, Otto, II. 2, 15, 128, 142, 147. - Detmering, I. 61. - Detmold, Lippe-- - Leopold II., Prince of, I. 182, 216, 221, 246; - II. 41. - Dowager Princess of, I. 183. - Friederike, Princess of, I. 183, 208, 216, 233, 244. - Luise, Princess of, I. 183. - Pauline, Princess of, I. 183. - Devrient, Edward, II. 29, 30, 90. - Diabelli, Anton, II. 5, 14. - Dietrich, Albert, I. 93, 119, 120, 124, 126, 142, 145, 156, 158, 188, - 201, 203, 255, 256, 265, 267, 277, 278, 280; - II. 15, 38, 39, 42, 50, 54, 55, 59, 68, 73, 79, 93, - 97, 101, 114, 131, 136, 142, 187, 259. - " Clara, I. 255. - Dobyhal, II. 6. - Doetsch, II. 188. - Döhler, Theodor, I. 83. - Dömpke, II. 217. - Donizetti, I. 84. - Donnhorf, II. 186, 188. - Doppler, Franz, II. 16. - Door, Anton, I. 185; - II. 103, 202, 217, 237. - " Frau, II. 284. - Dörffel, A., II. 134, 152, 164, 165, 178, 179, 217. - Dräseke, Felix, I. 252. - Dumba, II. 282. - Dunkl, II. 98. - Dustmann, Louise, I. 277; - II. 128. - Dvorák, Anton, II. 143, 185, 280, 282, 288. - - - E. - - Eberhard, G., II. 137. - Eccard, J., II. 22, 116. - Eckert, Carl Anton, II. 2. - Ehlert, Louis, II. 153. - Ehrbar, Friedrich, II. 153, 163, 207, 208, 217, 237, 252, 253. - Ehrlich, Heinrich, I. 107, 122. - Eibenschütz, Ilona, II. 258. - Eichendorff, J. v., I. 89, 137. - Eldering, II. 276. - Ella, John, I. 197; - II. 102. - Engel, I. 272; - II. 42. - Engelmann, Dr. and Frau, II. 121, 138, 145, 154, 191. - " Dr., II. 274, 276. - Eötoos, Baroness, II. 191. - Epstein, Julius, II. 4, 6, 16, 202, 214, 217, 236, 259, 282. - Erard, I. 197. - Erk, II. 262. - Ernst, I. 96. - Essen, II. 142. - Eschmann, II. 46, 47. - Ettlinger, Anna, II. 31, 159. - Eyrich, II. 85, 162. - - - F. - - Faber, Arthur, II. 5, 16, 22, 202, 207, 217, 279, 283, 284, 285, 288. - " Bertha, II. 5, 22, 82, 279, 283. - See also under Porubszky. - Falk, Clementina, I. 14. - Farmer, John, II. 73, 75. - Fellinger, Dr. and Frau, II. 202, 203, 215, 244-246, 276, 279, 280, - 281, 286. - " Dr., II. 285, 288. - " Frau, II. 223, 226-228, 283, 291. - Ferrari, Frau, II. 20. - " Sophie, II. 87. - Feuerbach, Anselm, II. 29, 124-127. - " Henriette, II. 29, 197, 198. - Fichtelberger, II. 21, 39. - Fischer, Georg, I. 226. - Flatz, Franz, II. 18. - Fleming, Paul, II. 26. - Flotow, II. 173. - Folkes, II. 103. - Formes, I. 80. - Frank, Ernst, II. 146, 156. - Franz, Frau, II. 202. - " Robert, I. 126. - Fräsch, I. 85. - Frege, I. 228. - Freund, Robert, II. 251. - Fribberg, Franz, II. 15. - Friedländer, Theka, II. 103. - Froude, J., I. 276. - Fuchs, II. 202, 217, 288. - Fürchtgott, II. 9. - - - G. - - Gabrielli, Giovanni, II. 22. - Garcia, Manuel, I. 198. - Garibaldi, II. 243. - Gehring, Franz, II. 111. - Geibel, Emanuel, II. 33, 91. - Gericke, W., II. 205. - Gernsheim, Friedrich, II. 173. - Giesemann, Adolph, I. 71, 74, 78, 80, 81, 90, 94, 95, 113. - " Elise, I. 71-77, 80, 81, 90-92. - See also under Denninghoff. - Gille, II. 95. - Glade, I. 84. - Gleich, Ferdinand, I. 227, 229, 230, 231. - Gluck, C. W. v., I. 5, 201; - II. 86, 116. - Goethe, Wolfgang v., I. 16, 89, 180; - II. 24, 84, 94, 95, 96, 154, 202. - Goldmark, Carl, II. 4, 131, 143, 163, 202, 217, 239, 240, 259, 283. - Goldschmidt, Otto, I. 87, 180-182, 183, 184; - II. 200. - " Lind-, Jenny, I. 179-182, 183, 184. - Goltermann, C. E., I. 59. - " Louis, I. 59. - Gompertz-Betteheim, II. 233. - Gompertz, Richard, II. 183. - Gotha, Friedrich, Prince of, II. 84. - Götz, Hermann, II. 138, 156. - Götze, I. 138. - Gouvy, Theodor, I. 136, 180. - Gozzi, II. 92, 159. - Grädener, I. 207, 239; - II. 5, 173. - Graun, II. 98. - Grimm, Hermann, II. 92. - " Julius Otto, I. 134, 135, 142, 146, 154, 155, 188, 191, 207, - 211, 219, 223, 246, 251, 270; - II. 95, 146, 154, 166, 173, 176, 187, 190, 259. - " Marie, I. 142, 188, 211. - " Philippine, I. 207, 219. - Groth, Claus, I. 46, 49, 198, 201; - II. 71, 72, 91, 106, 122, 126, 127, 128, 173, 176, 229, - 234, 235. - Grove, George, I. 198. - Grüber, II. 262, 273, 283. - Grünberger, II. 279. - Grund, Elise, II. 286, 290. - See also under Brahms. - " Wilhelm, I. 88, 235, 268, 277; - II. 170, 172. - - - H. - - Hafner, Carl, I. 260, 261, 263. - Hallé, Charles, II. 103. - " Lady, See Norman-Néruda. - Hallier, I. 258, 259, 262; - II. 175. - " Julie, I. 268, 269. - Handel, G. F., I. 113, 216, 244; - II. 98, 115, 116, 117, 136, 172. - Handel's 'Saul', I. 280; - II. 118. - Hanover, George V., King of, I. 107; - II. 48, 120, 238. - " Queen of, II. 238, 287. - " Marie, Princess of, II. 287. - Hanslick, Edward, I. 168, 180, 190, 230; - II. 4, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 23, 61, 68, 69, 113, - 142, 143, 150, 151, 170, 171, 173, 174, 202, - 208, 212, 213, 217, 229, 237, 240, 242, 247, - 259, 272, 278, 279, 282, 283. - Hare, I. 276. - Hauptmann, Moritz, I. 136, 187. - Hauser, II. 31. - " Frau, II. 94. - Hausmann, Fräulein, II. 94. - " Robert, I. 40; - II. 204, 222, 223, 230, 231, 280. - Heermann, II. 102, 204. - Hegar, Friedrich, II. 39, 47, 78, 95, 137, 138, 196, 229, 251, 252, - 270. - Heldburg, Helene, Baroness v., II. 194, 195, 287. - Heller, Stephen, I. 126, 180. - Hellmesberger, Josef, II. 3, 6, 7, 14, 15, 23, 52, 68, 122, 140, 143, - 146, 156, 181, 204, 222, 250. - Henschel, Georg, II. 137, 152, 231, 233. - " Lilian, II. 233. - Hensel, Fanny, II. 91. - Henselt, Adolf, II. 95. - Herbeck, Johann, II. 2, 108, 141, 142. - Herder, I. 166; II. 84. - Hermann, I. 270. - Herz, Henri, I. 59, 84. - Herzog, I. 84. - Herzogenberg, Heinrich v., II. 134, 154, 274, 275. - " Elisabeth v., II. 134, 154. - Hesse, Anna, Landgräfin of, II. 32. - " Alexander Friedrich, Landgraf of, II. 32, 33, 146, 216, 229, - 230, 236, 271. - Heuberger, Richard, I. 99; - II. 42, 89, 158, 162, 163, 186, 276, 288. - Hildebrant, II. 291. - Hille, I. 154. - Hiller, Ferdinand, I. 101, 118, 179, 203; - II. 40, 118, 173, 187, 203. - Himmelstoss, II. 104, 183. - Hirsch, R., II. 16, 53, 62, 151. - Hirschfeld, II. 74. - Hoch, II. 122. - Hoffmann, E. T. A., I. 89, 93, 116, 121, 164. - " J. F., I. 66, 188. - Hölderlin, F., II. 77, 104, 105, 205. - Hohenemser, II. 82. - Hohenlohe, II. 195. - Hohenthal, Ida, Gräfin v., I. 135, 144. - Holmes, Henry, II. 103. - " W. H., II. 102. - Holstein, Franz and Hedwig v., I. 136; - II. 134, 154. - See also under Salamon. - Honnef, I. 83. - Honroth, I. 261. - Hopfer, Bernhard, II. 138. - Hoplit, See Pohl, R. - Hornbostel, v., II. 279. - Hubay, Eugen, II. 222. - Hübbe, Walter, I. 241, 258. - Hullah, John, II. 56, 87. - Hummel, J. N., II. 95. - Hummer, II. 246. - Hunger, I. 270. - - - I. - - Isaak, Heinrich, II. 20, 116. - - - J. - - Jacobsen, II. 79. - Jaell, Alfred, I. 217; - II. 102. - Jahn, Otto, I. 180, 195, 198, 201, 249, 257. - Janetschek, II. 278. - Janovitch, I. 93. - Japha, Louise, I. 67, 88-90, 93, 113, 119, 121, 125, 144, 145; - II. 76. - " Minna, I. 90, 93, 121, 144. - Jansen, Gustav, I. 123. - Janssen, Marie, II. 243, 244. - See also under Cossel. - Jenek, II. 246. - Jenner, II. 186, 234-236. - Joachim, Amalie, II. 17, 26, 33, 73, 95, 117, 121, 135. - " Joseph, I. 39, 40, 65, 95, 100, 102-108, 112-114, 123-126, - 139, 144, 147, 154-158, 172-175, 182, 183, 186, - 187, 200, 203, 204-207, 211-213, 221-223, 225, - 226, 232-236, 245, 247, 249-252, 255-260, 262, - 263, 267, 268, 271, 277; - II. 10, 11, 15, 48, 50, 51, 53, 59, 60, 69, 71, 73, - 92, 101, 102, 103, 116, 121, 122, 124, 134, 141, - 146, 147, 148, 154, 155, 166, 167, 170, 171, 174, - 175, 177-179, 182, 187-189, 190, 198, 204, 209, - 210, 223, 230, 231, 233, 234, 236, 238, 246, 249, - 250, 259, 265, 269, 270, 275, 279, 280, 281, 289. - - - K. - - Kahnt, II. 50. - Kalbeck, Max, I. 49, 87, 148, 280; - II. 144, 217, 229, 288. - Karpath, Ludwig, II. 277. - Kayser, I. 261. - Keiser, Reinhard, I. 113. - Keller, Gottfried, II. 46, 137, 162, 222, 229. - Kemp, Stephen, II. 201. - Kiel, Friedrich, II. 51. - " Capellmeister, I. 183, 209, 222, 247. - Kirchner, Theodor, I. 120, 126, 157, 275; - II. 39, 45-47, 50, 134, 154, 173, 229, 259. - Kleinecke, II. 68. - Kleist, Heinrich v., II. 155. - Klems, I. 168. - Klindworth, Carl, I. 109, 111, 112, 144. - Klinger, Max, II. 273. - Klopstock, I. 89, 113. - Knaus, II. 207. - Kneisel, I. 273. - Koch, Town-musician, I. 91. - " Sophie, I. 91. - " General-Secretary, II. 285. - " Ludwig, II. 288. - Köhler, Louis, I. 227. - " Dr., I. 96. - " Rector, I. 73, 78; - II. 32. - Königslow, Otto v., I. 256, 277; - II. 40. - Koning, II. 203. - Köppelhöfer, I. 85. - Köstlin, Professor, II. 203. - " Josephine Lang, II. 203. - Krause (Pianist), I. 138. - Krause, (Singer), II. 38. - " Emil, I. 192. - Krauss, Dr., II. 87, 94, 116. - Krebs, Marie, II. 103. - Kreisler, Johannes (Pseudonym for Joh. Brahms), I. 93, 122, 146. - Kreisler, Fritz, II. 179. - Kremser, Edward, II. 177. - Krenn, Franz, II. 18. - Krziwanek, II. 264. - Krolop, Franz, II. 76. - Kufferath, Professor, II. 268. - " Antonia, II. 183, 205. - See also under Speyer. - Kuhnau, Johann, II. 80. - Krummholtz, I. 270. - Kundemann, II. 285. - Kürner, II. 94. - Kyllmann, I. 256, 257; - II. 187. - - - L. - - Lachner, Franz, I. 180; - II. 88, 230. - Lallement, Avé, I. 207, 232, 233, 258, 268, 277; - II. 10, 11. - Lamond, Frederic, II. 201, 216. - Lange, S. de, II. 116. - Langhans-Japha, Louise, See under Japha. - Lasserre, II. 102. - Lasso, Orlando di, I. 188. - Laub, Ferdinand, I. 136; - II. 15. - Laurens, de, I. 122, 169. - Lee, Louis, I. 260, 261, 268, 270; - II. 143. - Lehmann, II. 75. - Lemke, Carl, II. 162. - Le Roy, Guillaume, I. 290. - Leser, I. 169, 255. - Lessing, Gotth. Eph., I. 89, 113. - " C. F., I. 120. - Levi, Hermann, II. 30, 38, 90, 93, 94, 104, 111, 120, 129, 133, 136, - 137, 147, 159, 184, 185. - " (Publisher), II. 10. - Levin, II. 143. - Leyen, Rudolf v. der, II. 183, 275. - Lind, Jenny, See under Goldschmidt. - Liszt, Franz, I. 100, 101, 103, 108-112, 124, 128, 135, 136, 139, 144, - 147, 180, 181, 211-213, 249-252; - II. 46, 95, 132, 191, 271, 290. - Litolff, Henry, I. 90. - Little, Lena, II. 233. - Lohfeldt, Rudolph, I. 86. - Lorscheidt, II. 187. - Löwe, I. 74. - " J. C. G., II. 70. - " Sophie, II. 103. - Löwenherz, Aaron, I. 76, 77, 264. - Lükbe, II. 46. - Luther, Martin, II. 63. - - - M. - - Maier, II. 26. - Mangold, C. F., I. 126. - Manns, August, II. 102, 179. - Mannstädt, II. 207, 216. - Mara, La, I. 59, 67, 85, 131, 140, 147. - Marks, G. W. (ps. Joh. Brahms), I. 86. - Martucci, II. 229. - Marxsen, Edward, I. 57-61, 63-68, 74, 79, 84, 85, 89, 90, 97, 113, - 118, 143, 147-152, 161, 187; - II. 9, 10, 28, 62, 175, 200, 230, 231. - Mason, William, I. 108, 109, 111, 128, 163, 273; - II. 53. - Mattheson, Johann, I. 113. - May, Florence, II. 103, 200. - Meinhardus, Ludwig, II. 174. - Mendelssohn, Felix, I. 21, 99, 100, 101, 180, 216, 226, 227, 238; - II. 22, 91, 118, 132, 141, 174, 177, 191, 198, - 268, 288. - Menzel, Adolph v., II. 270. - Meyer, I. 73. - " C., I. 85. - " David, I. 79. - Meyerbeer, II. 18. - Meysenbug, Carl v., I. 204, 205, 208-210, 214, 223, 243, 246; - II. 41, 68, 121, 190. - " Hermann v., I. 214, 217, 240. - " Hofmarschall v., I. 208, 246. - " Frau v., I. 214, 216. - " Fräulein v., I. 204, 208, 240. - Michalek, II. 285. - Miller, Christian, I. 69, 90. - " Victor v. zu Aichholz, II. 202, 239, 279, 283, 284, 285, 288, - 291. - Mollenhauer, I. 85. - Moltke, v., II. 240. - Morley, John, II. 25. - Moscheles, Ignaz, I. 216. - Moser, Andreas, I. 107, 155, 249. - Mozart, Wolfgang A., I. 17, 18, 70, 220, 238, 267; - II. 116, 117, 141, 148, 171, 172, 177, 199, 200, - 202, 217, 270, 287. - Mozart's works played by Brahms, I. 59, 192, 215, 216, 262. - " 'Figaro's Hochzeit', I. 80, 81, 83, 84, 180; - II. 90. - Mühlfeld, Richard, I. 39, 40; - II. 248-251, 265-267, 283. - Müller, II. 203, 204. - - - N. - - Nagy, Zoltan, II. 233. - Naumann, Ernst, I. 120, 126, 157, 158; - II. 94, 95. - Néruda, Franz, II. 147. - Neumann, Carl, I. 167; - II. 197. - Niebuhr, I. 46. - Nissen, the sisters, I. 54. - " Johanna H. Christiana, See under Brahms. - Norman, Ludwig, I. 126. - Norman-Néruda, Wilhelmine, II. 103, 147, 183, 204. - Nottebohm, M. G., II. 3, 16, 22. - Novello, Clara, I. 104. - - - O. - - Oldenburg, Grand-Duke of, I. 267; - II. 10. - " Grand-Duchess of, II. 68. - Ophüls, G., II. 276. - Oser, Dr. and Frau, II. 163, 202. - Ossian, II. 84. - Otten, G. D., I. 186, 192, 206, 253. - Otterer, Christian, I. 59, 68; - II. 175. - Ould, C., II. 103. - - - P. - - Paganini, Nicolo, II. 60. - Palestrina, G. P. da, I. 188, 250; - II. 292. - Pänzer, II. 60. - Paque, W., II. 53. - Passy-Cornet, II. 5, 9, 13. - See also under Cornet. - Paul, Jean (F. Richter), I. 89, 116, 170, 173. - " Jeanette, I. 138. - Perger, Richard v., II. 288, 289. - Peroni-Glasbrenner, I. 154. - Peters, II. 138. - Petersen, II. 241, 242. - Pezze, II. 103. - Pfund, I. 228. - Piatti, Alfredo, II. 53, 103, 147, 204, 250. - Piening, II. 276. - Pohl, C. F., II. 4, 202, 259. - " Richard (Hoplit), I. 140, 189, 190, 193; - II. 31. - Pope, Alexander, I. 89. - Popper, David, II. 143, 222. - Porubszky, Bertha, I. 239, 258. - See also under Faber. - Possart, Ernst v., II. 188. - Potter, Cipriani, II. 87. - Prückner, Dionys, I. 108, 124. - Pyatt, G., II. 103. - Pyllemann, Franz, II. 117. - - - R. - - Radicati di Marmorito-- - Count, II. 93. - Countess, II. 93. - See also under Julie Schumann. - Raff, Joachim, I. 100, 103, 108, 136; - II. 51. - Rameau, J. P., I. 38. - Raphael, I. 140. - Redeker, II. 103. - Regan, Anna, II. 87. - Reichhardt, J. F., II. 94, 95. - Reimann, Heinrich, I. 234; - II. 9, 142, 278, 284. - Reimers, Christian, I. 116, 256. - Reinecke, Carl, I. 118, 259; - II. 87, 132, 173. - Reinhold, II. 143. - Reinthaler, Carl Martin, II. 55, 56, 59, 60, 73-76, 91, 98, 112, 173. - " Henriette, II. 76, 211, 212. - Reuter, I. 266; II. 72. - Rheinberger, II. 131. - Richarz, I. 157. - Richter, Hans, II. 51, 163, 208, 217. - Rieckmann, I. 73, 82. - Riedel, II. 133. - Ries, Louis, II. 53, 103, 147. - Rieter-Biedermann, I. 257, 265, 278; - II. 26, 35, 43, 73, 81, 83. - Rietz, Julius, I. 180, 259; - II. 132, 136. - Risch, I. 83. - Ritter, I. 113. - Ritterhaus, II. 188. - Rittermüller, Philippine, See under Grimm. - Roeger-Soldat, Marie, II. 179, 283. - Röntgen, I. 270. - Rosa, Carl, I. 55. - Rosé, Arnold, II. 22, 246, 250, 266. - Rosegger, II. 215, 216. - Rosenhain, J., I. 83; - II. 28, 230. - Rösing, Elisabeth, I. 265, 276; - II. 10. - Rossini, G. A., I. 83. - Rottenberg, v., II. 186, 237, 240. - Röver, II. 6. - Rovetta, Giovanni, I. 188; - II. 22. - Rubinstein, Anton, I. 3, 65, 191, 192, 217; - II. 28, 108, 133, 139. - Rückert, Friedrich, II. 211. - - - S. - - S..., Agathe, I. 223, 224. - Sahr, Heinrich v., I. 134, 137, 256. - Salamon, Hedwig, I. 136-138. - See also under Holstein. - Sallet, Friedrich v., II. 161, 162. - Santley, Charles, II. 87. - Saxe-Meiningen-- - George, Duke of, II. 194-196, 207, 248, 287. - Marie, Princess of, II. 287. - Sayn-Wittgenstein, Princess Caroline v., I. 108. - Scarlatti, D., I. 5, 6, 18, 38, 197; - II. 54, 71, 102. - Schaafhausen, II. 188. - Schäfer, Julius, I. 126. - Schelle, II. 52, 54, 62, 119. - Schelper, II. 99. - Schiller, Friedrich, I. 89, 137, 138, 289; - II. 91, 92, 193, 197, 206. - Schirmer, J. W., I. 120. - Schleinitz, I. 136. - Schloenbach, I. 136, 138, 139. - Schmall, II. 143. - Schmidt, Julius, I. 209, 214-217, 245. - " Professor, II. 213. - Schnack, Caroline, II. 40, 41. - See also under Brahms. - " Fritz, II. 40, 45, 108, 109, 175, 254, 278, 290. - Scholz, Bernhard, I. 251; - II. 103, 104, 140, 166, 183, 275. - " Dr., II. 18. - Schröder, I. 73, 74, 90, 96. - Schröder-Devrient, I. 177. - Schubert, Franz, I. 21, 84, 235, 238, 267; - II. 5, 15, 116, 119, 130, 136, 162, 174, 212, 274, - 287. - " Works played by Brahms, I. 5, 186, 199, 205, 209, 215, 236, - 263, 268; - II. 42, 54, 60, 70, 71, 86. - Schübring, A., I. 118, 274, 275; - II. 73. - Schultz, A., II. 18. - Schulze, I. 209, 245. - Schumann, Clara, I. 1-9, 13, 15, 22, 23, 65, 89, 104, 119, 125, 144, - 155, 159, 160, 163-178, 181-185, 192, 193, - 194-198, 201-206, 210, 211, 218-220, 222, 259, - 260, 262, 267-271, 273, 278; - II. 48, 68, 73, 79, 80, 94, 101, 102, 103, 111, 121, - 122, 154, 167, 171, 187, 188, 203, 204, 230, - 255, 258, 259, 268, 269, 275. - " Robert, I. 65, 89, 101, 102, 113, 116, 118-132, 133, 134, - 143, 154-158, 167-178, 179, 186, 187, 189, 190, - 194, 195, 198, 201-203, 255, 256; - II. 3, 20, 25, 26, 74, 113, 116, 121, 132, 136, 141, - 148, 166, 171, 172, 186-189, 190, 191, 198, 255, - 256, 275. - " Works played by Brahms, I. 186, 191, 206, 215, 216, 246, - 247, 253, 263; - II. 7, 13, 39, 42, 54, 60, 70, 86, - 102, 189. - " Elise, I. 168, 173. - " Eugénie, I. 220; - II. 268. - " Felix, I. 219. - " Julie, I. 169, 279; - II. 93. - " Marie, I. 168, 173, 252, 262; - II. 48, 73, 268. - Schütz, Heinrich, II. 22. - Schwarz, Johanna, II. 106. - Schwenke, I. 63. - Sechter, Simon, II. 3. - Seebach, Elizabeth v., I. 137. - Seebohm, II. 72. - Segisser, II. 31. - Seling, Emil, II. 278. - Sell, II. 275. - Senff, I. 141, 144; - II. 98. - Sengelmann, I. 239. - Seyfried, Ignaz v., I. 64, 67. - Seyfrix, II. 194. - Shakespeare, I. 258. - Shakespeare, W., II. 203, 233. - Siebert, II. 246. - Simrock, Fritz, I. 257; - II. 154, 202, 229, 271, 286. - " N., I. 257; - II. 10, 43, 81, 94, 98, 106, 124, 138, 203, 289. - Sittard, Josef, I. 151, 152; - II. 62, 218, 231, 241. - Smetansky, II. 130. - Sohn, Carl, I. 93, 120. - " Clara, See under Dietrich. - Sommerhoff, II. 265. - Sophocles, I. 89. - Speidel, II. 11, 12. - Spengel, Julius, I. 188; - II. 207, 234, 241. - Speratus, Paul, II. 26. - Speyer, II. 268. - See also under Antonia Kufferath. - Spiess, Hermine, II. 213, 229. - Spina, II. 5, 10, 15, 17, 26. - Spitta, Friedrich, II. 274. - " Philipp, I. 246; - II. 83, 134, 181, 219. - Spohr, L., I. 183, 208; - II. 171. - Stanford, C. V., II. 87, 103, 155, 156, 183, 270. - Steche, Lily, I. 138. - Stegmayer, F., II. 3, 17, 18, 26. - Stein, I. 180. - Steinbach, Fritz, II. 232, 267. - Steinbrügger, II. 31. - Steiner, A., II. 47, 138, 197, 229, 250, 269. - Stern, Adolph, II. 95. - Stern, Capellmeister, II. 88. - Stockhausen, Julius, I. 198, 199, 233-236, 255-257, 262, 263, 265, - 275; - II. 10, 11, 22, 35, 69-72, 73, 79, 81, 83, 84, - 85, 86, 87, 102, 104, 106, 111, 121, 137, - 154, 167, 187, 211, 259, 265, 268, 275, 289. - " Frau, II. 35, 73. - Stone, I. 277. - See also Minna Völckers. - Stradella, A., II. 71. - Straus, Ludwig, II. 103, 147, 238, 250. - Strauss, Richard, II. 216. - " Johann, I. 22; - II. 127, 202, 239, 249, 264, 279, 283. - " Joseph, II. 30. - Suter-Weber, II. 78. - Sybel, II. 248. - - - T. - - Tartini, I. 235, 247; - II. 60, 73. - Tasso, Torquato, I. 89; - II. 84. - Tausig, Carl, II. 4, 14, 23. - Taylor, Franklin, II. 103. - Telemann, G. P., I. 113. - Thalberg, Sigismund, I. 85, 87. - Thomas, Theodor, I. 163. - Thompson, II. 87, 102. - Thorwaldsen, II. 71. - Tieck, Ludwig, I. 265, 275, 276, 291, 303. - Tourgenieff, II. 31, 91. - Truxa, Celestine, II. 226-228, 246, 259, 285, 290. - - - V. - - Vega, Loppe de, II. 33. - Verhulst, I. 180; - II. 173, 191. - Versan, Raoul de, II. 103. - Vesque v. Püttlingen, Helene, I. 136, 137. - Viardot-Garcia, Pauline, II. 31, 94, 95, 102. - Vienna Singakademie concerts under Brahms, II. 20, 22, 23, 25, 26. - Vienna Gesellschaft concerts under Brahms, II. 116-120, 129-131, 136, - 139-141. - Vieuxtemps, Henry, I. 96, 98. - Vinci, Leonardo da, I. 218. - Viotti, II. 177. - Vogel, II. 107. - Vögl, Bernhard, II. 217. - Vogler, II. 18. - Völckers, Herr, I. 258, 265, 266. - " Betty, I. 255, 265, 266; - II. 175. - " Marie, I. 255, 265, 266; - II. 72, 82, 175. - See also under Böie. - " Minna, I. 266; - II. 73. - Volkland, Alfred, II. 134. - Volkmann, R., II. 130. - Voss, J. Heinrich, II. 91. - - - W. - - Wachtel, Theodor, I. 84. - Wäfelghem, II. 102. - Wagner, Friedchen, I. 192, 218, 219, 238, 239, 240, 241, 269; - II. 175. - " Thusnelda, I. 239. - " Richard, I. 100, 101, 103, 105, 252, 287-290; - II. 14, 30, 95, 141, 157-159, 184, 185, 186. - Wahrendorf, Fritz, I. 88. - Waiz, I. 113. - Wallace, Lady, II. 91. - Walter, Gustav, II. 85, 94, 233. - " Fräulein, II. 233. - Wasielewsky, Josef v., I. 114-116, 118, 132, 195; - II. 121. - Webbe, Septimus, II. 201. - Weber, C. M. v., I. 67, 288; - II. 18, 174, 249, 283. - Wehermann, II. 275. - Wehner, I. 118, 137. - Weigand, II. 133. - Weiglein, II. 233. - Weiss, Amalie, See under Joachim. - Weitzmann, I. 251 - Wendt, Gustav, I. 148; - II. 31, 229, 230, 264. - Wenzel, Ernst F., I. 134, 144. - Wesendonck, II. 46. - Westermann, II. 42. - Widmann, J. V., I. 67, 86; - II. 39, 89, 138, 156-161, 193, 194, 221-225, 229, 230, - 238, 239, 243, 251-253, 258, 269, 270, 272. - Wieck, Friedrich, I. 134. - " Marie, I. 134. - Wiedemann, II. 94. - Wiemann, I. 261. - Wiesemann, I. 203. - Wildenbruch, Ernst v., II. 222. - William I., German Emperor, II. 69, 116, 137. - William II., German Emperor, II. 69. - Wilsing, E. F., I. 126. - Wilt, II. 13, 20, 87, 99, 116. - Winter, II. 84. - Wittgenstein, II. 202, 283. - Wolf, Hugo, II. 220. - Wolff-Homersee, Baroness, See under Barbi. - Woronzow, I. 56. - Wrede, II. 187. - Wüllner, Franz, I. 116; - II. 117, 166. - - - Y. - - Young, Edward, I. 89. - - - Z. - - Zelter, II. 94. - Zerbini, II. 53, 147. - Zimmermann, Agnes, II. 103. - " Dr. v., II. 288. - - THE END - - BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD. - - - - - Telegrams: 41 and 43 Maddox Street, - 'Scholarly, London.' 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It should be -indispensable, not only to experts in the various sports, but to the far -larger class of holiday-makers who engage in them as a pastime. - - - FIVE MONTHS IN THE HIMALAYAS. - - A Record of Mountain Travel in Garhwal and Kashmir. - - By A. L. MUMM, - LATE HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE ALPINE CLUB. - - _Magnificently illustrated with Photogravure Plates and Panoramas, and - a Map. Royal 8vo._ =21s. net.= - -The first and principal portion of this volume contains an account of a -journey through the mountains of Garhwal made by the author in May, -June, and July, 1907, with Major the Hon. C. G. Bruce and Dr. T. G. -Longstaff, whose names are already well known in connexion with -Himalayan mountaineering. The tour has considerable geographical -interest, which is enhanced by a magnificent series of original -photographs of scenes never before submitted to the camera, and it was -rendered memorable by the fact that in the course of it Dr. Longstaff -reached the summit of Trisul, 23,415 feet above the level of the sea, -the loftiest peak on the earth's surface whose actual summit has, beyond -all doubt or question, been trodden by man. - -Later on, Major Bruce and Mr. Mumm proceeded to Kashmir, where they -climbed Mount Haramukh, whose snowy crest is familiar to all visitors to -'the happy valley'; and made a 'high-level route' down the range of -mountains which separates Kashmir from Kagan. Their photographic spoils -were of an interest hardly inferior to those of the Garhwal journey. - - - PAINTING IN THE FAR EAST. - - An Introduction to the History of Pictorial Art in Asia, especially - China and Japan. - - By LAURENCE BINYON. - - _With 31 Full-page Illustrations in Collotype from Original Chinese - and Japanese Pictures. One Volume. Crown 4to._ =21s. net.= - -This important book is a pioneer work in the artistic interpretation of -the East to the West, and in the breaking down of the spiritual barriers -between them. For a basis of study of Eastern art, writes Mr. Binyon, -'the public at present has nothing but a few general misconceptions.' He -therefore puts forward his volume with the modest hope that it 'may not -be thought too presumptuous an attempt to survey the achievement and to -interpret the aims of Oriental painting, and to appreciate it from the -standpoint of a European in relation to the rest of the world's art. It -is the general student and lover of painting,' he continues, 'whom I -have wished to interest. My chief concern has been, not to discuss -questions of authorship or of archæology, but to enquire what æsthetic -value and significance these Eastern paintings have for us in the West.' -Besides its stimulating artistic criticism, the book is full of -interesting glimpses of Eastern history and thought in so far as they -have affected art, as well as of biographical sketches of Eastern -painters. - - - MADAME ELIZABETH DE FRANCE, - 1764-1794. - - A Memoir. - - By the Hon. Mrs. MAXWELL-SCOTT, - AUTHOR OF 'JOAN OF ARC,' 'ABBOTSFORD AND ITS TREASURES,' ETC. - - _With Coloured Collotype and other Illustrations. - Demy 8vo._ =12s. 6d. net.= - -Among the victims of the French Revolution, perhaps the figure which -excites most sympathy is that of the modest and heroic Princess whose -life is told in this deeply interesting memoir. Madame Elizabeth was the -sister of Louis XVI. Her life was at first one of calm and quiet. Her -studies, her charities, and her intimate friendships filled her time -until the storm broke over France, and she left her peaceful Montruil to -take her part in the dangers and sufferings of her family, and to be -their consoler in the time of trial. It was not till the King and Queen -had both been executed that Madame Elizabeth was brought from prison, -tried for corresponding with her brother, and condemned to the -guillotine. - -The fresh documents lately discovered by M. Lenotre have enabled the -author, who, by the way, is a great-granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, -to throw much new light on the life of 'The Angelic Princess.' - - - SCOTTISH GARDENS. - - By the Right Hon. Sir HERBERT MAXWELL, Bart. - - Illustrated in Colour by MARY G. W. WILSON, - MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF SCOTTISH ARTISTS. - - _With 32 Full-page Coloured Plates. Crown 4to._ =21s. net.= - - _Also an Edition de Luxe, limited to 250 copies, at_ =£2 2s. net=. - -This work is the outcome of a desire to produce a volume worthy in every -respect of the beautiful gardens of Scotland. Sir Herbert Maxwell, whose -knowledge of the subject is probably unique, is personally acquainted -with the places described, and has throughout been in consultation with -the artist, Miss Wilson. Visitors to her studio in Edinburgh, or the -exhibitions of her work in London, will need no further testimony to the -charm of her pictures, which are here reproduced with the utmost care -and on the largest feasible scale. - -One of the objects of the work is to dispel certain popular fallacies as -to the rigours of the Scottish climate. Its chief aim, however, is to -present a typical selection of Scottish garden scenes representing all -styles and all scales, modest as well as majestic, and formal as well as -free, so that the possessor of the humblest plot of ground may be -stimulated to beautify it, with as fair hope of success, in proportion, -as the lord of many thousand acres. - - - ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS. - - By REGINALD FARRER, - AUTHOR OF 'MY ROCK GARDEN,' ETC. - - _With Illustrations. Large Crown 8vo._ =7s. 6d. net.= - -Like most hobbies, rock-gardening provides an endless topic of interest -for its devotees, and the lore of the subject is inexhaustible. At any -rate, Mr. Reginald Farrer, who is a recognized authority on the art, by -no means exhausted his stock of information and anecdote in his previous -work, 'My Rock Garden.' That garden, as most of his fellow-enthusiasts -know, is on the slopes of Ingleborough in Yorkshire, and it is a place -of pilgrimage for the faithful of this cult. As a writer, Mr. Farrer -combines a light and genial style with sound practical information, so -that his books are at once readable and instructive. Some idea of the -scope of the present volume may be gained from the list of chapters, -which is as follows: 1. Of Shrubs and their Placing. 2. Of Shrubs, -Mostly Evergreen. 3. Ranunculaceæ, Papaveraceæ, Cruciferæ. 4. A -Collecting Day above Arolla. 5. Between Dianthus and Epilobium. 6. From -Epilobium on through Umbelliferæ and Compositæ. 7. Of Odd Treasures. 8. -The Big Bog and its Lilies. 9. The Greater Bog Plants. 10. Iris. 11. The -Mountain Bog. 12. More of the Smaller Bog Plants. 13. The Water Garden. - - - THE HISTORY OF THE 'GEORGE' - WORN ON THE SCAFFOLD BY - KING CHARLES I. - - By SIR RALPH PAYNE-GALLWEY, Bart., - AUTHOR OF 'THE MYSTERY OF MARIA STELLA,' ETC. - - _Finely illustrated in Collotype. Royal 8vo._ =7s. 6d. net.= - -A 'George,' in the sense in which it is here used, is the jewelled -pendant of St. George and the Dragon which is worn by Knights of the -Garter. There are two of these 'Georges' used in the Insignia of the -Order. One is attached to the collar, and is worn only on solemn feasts: -the other is called 'the lesser George,' and is worn on general -occasions, attached to a chain or lace of silk. - -The sovereign is, of course, head of the Order, and Charles the First -was wearing his 'George' when he ascended the scaffold to be executed. -The question afterwards arose as to what had become of it, and it has -since been given up as lost. Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, however, who has -already, in his book on Maria Stella, proved himself a skilful literary -unraveller of historical mysteries, makes out a very good case, in his -new volume, for identifying the missing 'George' with one that is now in -King Edward's possession at Windsor. - - - A PARSON IN THE AUSTRALIAN - BUSH. - - By C. H. S. MATTHEWS, M.A., - LATE VICE-PRINCIPAL OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, N.S.W. - - _Illustrated from Sketches by the_ AUTHOR, _etc. - Crown 8vo._ =6s. net.= - -The Rev. C. H. S. Matthews, better known in the bush of New South Wales -as 'Brother Charles,' is one of the founders and chiefs of an Anglican -Society called the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd, formed to minister -to the religious needs of those remote regions. During five years spent -almost entirely in itinerating in the 'back-blocks' of the colony, he -has had exceptional opportunities for studying bush-life. Finding, on -his return to England, a widespread interest in Australian affairs, -coupled often with an astonishing ignorance of the real Australia, it -occurred to him to set down his own experiences and views on various -Australian problems. Knocking about among the bushmen, camping with -sleeper-cutters and drovers, visiting the stations and selections -'out-back,' Mr. Matthews has caught the spirit and atmosphere of the -bush, with its mingled pathos, humour and humanity. The book should -appeal, not only to those interested in missionary enterprise, but to -all who like to learn how the other parts of the Empire live. - - - THE ROSE-WINGED HOURS. - - English Love Lyrics. - - Arranged by St. JOHN LUCAS, - EDITOR OF 'THE OXFORD BOOK OF FRENCH VERSE,' ETC. - - _Small 8vo., elegantly bound._ =5s. net.= - -The special claim of this anthology, arranged, as it is, by one of our -most promising younger poets, will be due to the prominence given in it -to the love-lyrics of those Elizabethan and Jacobean poets whose verse, -though really entitled to rank with the finest flowers of their -better-known contemporaries, is unduly neglected by the ordinary reader. -The love-lyric is, indeed, the only form in which a great many of the -lesser poets write anything at all memorable. - -Sidney and Campion, both writers of extraordinary power and sweetness, -devote themselves almost entirely to this form, and the strange and -passionate voice of Doune finds in it an accent of deep and haunting -eloquence. And since every love-lyric from Meleager to Meredith has a -certain deathless interest that is shared by every poem of its kind, no -matter how many the centuries between them, in this volume the great -line of the Elizabethans will lead to the nineteenth century poets, to -the singers of an epoch with a lyrical harvest as great, indeed, as all -the gold of Elizabeth. - - - THE MISTRESS ART. - - By REGINALD BLOMFIELD, A.R.A., - PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY. - AUTHOR OF 'A HISTORY OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND.' - - _Crown 8vo._ =5s. net.= - -The author of this interesting book, who speaks, as it were, _ex -cathedrâ_, has here collected a series of eight lectures on architecture -delivered in the Royal Academy. In them he has endeavoured to establish -a standpoint from which architecture should be studied and practised. -His general position is that architecture is an art with a definite -technique of its own, which cannot be translated into terms either of -ethics or of any of the other arts, and the development of this thesis -involves a somewhat searching criticism of the views on architecture -advanced by Ruskin and Morris. - -The first four lectures deal with the study of architecture--its -relation to personal temperament, its appeal to the emotions, and its -limitations. In the last four, devoted to 'The Grand Manner,' the writer -has illustrated his conception of the aims and ideas of architecture by -reference to great examples of the art in the past. - - - WOODSMEN OF THE WEST. - - By M. ALLERDALE GRAINGER. - - _With Illustrations. Demy 8vo._ =7s. 6d. net.= - -This is an extremely interesting personal narrative of 'logging' in -British Columbia. 'Logging,' as everyone knows, means felling and -preparing for the saw-mill the giant timber in the forests that fringe -the Pacific coast of Canada, and it is probably true that no more -strenuous work is done on the face of the earth. Mr. Grainger, who is a -Cambridge Wrangler, has preferred this manual work to the usual mental -occupations of the mathematician, and gives us a vivid and graphic -account of an adventurous life. - - - ARVAT. - - A Dramatic Poem in Four Acts. - - By LEOPOLD H. MYERS. - - _Crown 8vo._ =4s. 6d. net.= - -The author of this play is a son of the late Frederick Myers, the -well-known authority on 'Psychical Research.' It is a poetical drama in -four acts, describing the rise and fall of the hero, Arvat. The time and -place are universal, as are also the characters. But the latter, though -universal, and therefore in a sense symbolic, are psychologically human, -and the significance of the action, heightened as it may be by -interpretation through the imagination, is nevertheless independent of -it. Thus Arvat's career, while providing subject-matter for a drama -among individuals in the flesh, may also be taken as the symbol of a -drama among ideas in the spirit. - - - PEEP-IN-THE-WORLD. - - A Story for Children. - - By Mrs. F. E. CRICHTON. - - _Illustrated by Harry Rountree. Crown 8vo._ =3s. 6d.= - -The author of this charming tale ought to take rank with such writers as -Mrs. Molesworth in the category of childhood's literature. The story -tells of a little girl who visits her uncle in Germany and spends a year -in an old castle on the borders of a forest. There she finds everything -new and delightful. She makes friends with a dwarf cobbler, who lives -alone in a hut in the forest, and knows the speech of animals and birds. -Knut, the cobbler, is something of a hermit and a misanthrope, but he is -conquered by Peep-in-the-World, whom he eventually admits to the League -of Forest Friends. She wants him to teach her how to talk to the wild -things of the woods, and though she has to leave Germany without -learning the secret, she gains a growing sense of the magic power of -sympathy and kindness. - - - LONDON SIDE-LIGHTS. - - By CLARENCE ROOK. - - _With Frontispiece by S. de la Bere. Crown 8vo._ =6s.= - -The author of these entertaining sketches has taken his place as an -ordinary Londoner who is a journalist as well. He has walked and ridden -about London with pennies in his pocket, eyes in his head, and a brain -behind the eyes. He has found secrets of London hotels, he has pierced -the problem of London traffic, he has been to queer boxing contests, and -he has been present at the birth of the popular song. He has sat in the -gallery of the House of Commons, and in the newspaper office that cuts -and carves its speeches. And he knows the story of the famous block in -Piccadilly. He has found, too, the problem of the London woman who is -alone. The problem also of those London children whom the Salvation Army -rescues. And at the end comes the 'Bath of Silence,' which gives the -City peace. - - - THE DOWAGER OF JERUSALEM. - - A Romance in Four Acts. - - By REGINALD FARRER, - AUTHOR OF 'IN OLD CEYLON,' 'MY ROCK GARDEN,' ETC. - - _Crown 8vo._ =3s. 6d. net.= - - - CHRONICLES OF SERVICE LIFE IN - MALTA. - - By Mrs. ARTHUR STUART. - - _Illustrated by Paul Hardy. Crown 8vo._ =6s.= - -Fiction is always the more interesting the more closely it is drawn from -life, and these sketches of naval and military society in Malta, -depicted in the form of stories, come from the pen of a lady who is -intimately acquainted with the life of which she writes. The names of -some of the stories, such as 'The Temptation of the Engineer,' 'The Red -Parasol,' 'The Prince, the Lady, and the Naval Captain,' will perhaps be -as good an indication as can be given of the character of the book. It -will doubtless appeal especially to those familiar with society at naval -and military stations, while the fact of its having a specific _milieu_, -should in no way detract from its general interest. 'Plain Tales from -the Hills' did not appeal only to the Anglo-Indian. - - - KNOWN TO THE POLICE. - - Memories of a Police Court Missionary. - - By THOMAS HOLMES, - AUTHOR OF 'PICTURES AND PROBLEMS FROM LONDON POLICE COURTS.' - - _Demy 8vo._ =10s. 6d. net.= - -There is probably no man living who is so well qualified as Mr. Holmes -to write the naked truth about the 'submerged tenth' of our population. -His are not the casual, superficial observations of the amateur, but the -first-hand experiences of one whose whole life is spent among the scenes -he describes. His work has lain among the hungry and thirsty; he has -visited the criminal in prison, and been face to face with the Hooligan -and the Burglar in their own haunts; but through all the gloom and -shadow of crime he has contrived to preserve a fellow-feeling with -humanity in its most depressing garb. Every chapter is full of interest, -of strange and quaint narratives in chequered pages of despair and hope. - - - VEGETARIAN COOKERY. - - By FLORENCE A. GEORGE, - AUTHOR OF 'KING EDWARD'S COOKERY BOOK.' - - _Crown 8vo._ =3s. 6d.= - -Some are vegetarians for conscience' sake, and others for the sake of -their health. Miss George caters for both these classes in her new book; -but she does not strictly exclude all animal food, since eggs, butter, -milk, cream and cheese form a large part of her dishes. As far as -possible, dietetic foods have been avoided in the recipes, as they are -often difficult to procure. Every recipe given has been tested to ensure -accuracy, and the simplest language is used in explaining what has to be -done. A special feature of the book is the large number of vegetable -soufflés and creams. The various chapters deal with Stock and Soups; -Sauces; Pastes, Borders and Garnishes; Casseroles, Patties, Pies, -Puddings and Timbales; Curries, Stews and Scallops; Galantines; -Croquettes; Vegetables; Aspics, Creams and Salads; Soufflés, Omelettes -and Egg Dishes; Aigrettes and Fritters; Savouries; Macaroni and Rice; -Sweets; and Menus. - - - THE SEEKERS. - - By FRANK SAVILE, - AUTHOR OF 'THE DESERT VENTURE,' ETC. - - _Crown 8vo._ =6s.= - -This is a stirring novel of adventure in Eastern Europe. A learned -Professor astonishes the British Association by announcing that he has -located the famous lost treasure of Diocletian, as buried somewhere in -the principality of 'Montenera.' This little State with its brave Prince -is hard pressed for funds to defend itself against more powerful -neighbours who aim at absorbing it, and the treasure would be -invaluable. Whether it was discovered or not, the reader learns in the -course of a spirited and exciting story. In reviewing the author's last -novel, 'The Desert Venture,' the _Times_ said: 'When you have agreed to -treat it as crude adventure, it is really as good as you can wish.' The -_World_ said: 'If Mr. Savile's style is to some extent modelled on that -of Merriman, this is no fault, but a virtue. And the reading world will -find that it may safely welcome such work as this on its own account--as -it assuredly will.' - - - THE WITCH'S SWORD. - - By DAVID KERR FULTON. - - _Illustrated by the Author. Crown 8vo._ =6s.= - -This work, by a new author, is of a highly imaginative and romantic -tendency, and deals with a most interesting period in Scottish history. -The hero, who tells his own story, is an All Hallows child, born in the -one weird hour which makes him kith and kin to the spirits of the air. -The mystery of Flodden and the strange events grouped round the ancient -tradition as to the fate of the gallant James are stirringly told, and -lead up to the dénouement, which comes with vivid unexpectedness at the -close of the book. - -The lonely orphan of a wronged father is unwittingly schooled to -vengeance by the fiery Welsh swordsman Jevan, who, at the instigation of -the dying old nurse, forges the wizard steel that gives the story its -name. - -A tender love idyll is woven into the tale and relieves the scenes of -violence through which the wearer of the Witch's Sword must fight his -way to honour and acceptance. - - - AMABEL CHANNICE. - - By ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK, - AUTHOR OF 'VALERIE UPTON,' ETC. - - _Crown 8vo._ =6s.= - -Readers of 'Valerie Upton' will turn eagerly to Miss Sedgwick's new -novel. The scene is laid in England, and the principal characters are -four--Amabel Channice, her son, her husband, and another woman, Lady -Elliston. The relations between mother and son form the basis of the -story, and the dramatic situation begins when the son, a youth of -nineteen, broaches to his mother the question why she and his father do -not live together. Curiosity is thus awakened, and the emotional -atmosphere charged with uneasy expectation. Thereafter events move -quickly, reaching a dramatic climax within the space of a week. Further -than this it would not be fair to the author to reveal her plot. - - - A ROOM WITH A VIEW. - - By E. M. FORSTER, - AUTHOR OF 'THE LONGEST JOURNEY,' 'WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD,' ETC. - - _Crown 8vo._ =6s.= - -A novelist's third book, when its predecessors have shown great promise, -is generally held to make or mar his reputation. There can be no -question that Mr. Forster's new story will effectually establish his -position. It is a comedy, having more affinity in style with his first -book, 'Where Angels Fear to Tread,' than with 'The Longest Journey.' The -author's whimsical humour, and unexpected turns of satire, have attained -a still more piquant quality. He excels especially in satirizing the -banalities of ordinary conversation, and his dialogue is always -deliciously amusing. - - - MIRIAM. - - By EDITH C. M. DART. - - _Crown 8vo._ =6s.= - -This is a promising first novel by a new writer, whose style is -remarkable for delicate workmanship. The story moves round the dying -fortunes of an old country family and its ancestral home. The hero -belongs to another branch of this family, and there is a mystery about -his birth. The heroine is an orphan, the daughter of a yeoman father and -a French mother. Another important character is a scheming lawyer, and -with these threads of love and intrigue the author has woven an -interesting plot which is cleverly worked out. - - - THE DRESSING OF MINERALS. - - By HENRY LOUIS, M.A., - PROFESSOR OF MINING AND LECTURER ON SURVEYING, ARMSTRONG COLLEGE, - NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. - - _With about 400 Illustrations. Royal 8vo._ =30s. net.= - -The object of this book is to fill a gap in technological literature -which exists between works on Mining and works on Metallurgy. On the -intermediate processes, by which the minerals unearthed by the miner are -prepared for the smelter and for their use in arts and manufactures, no -English text-book has yet appeared. The present work should, therefore, -be very welcome to students, as well as to miners and metallurgists. - - - THE GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS. - - By H. H. THOMAS and D. A. MACALISTER, - OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. - - _Illustrated. Crown 8vo._ =7s. 6d. net.= - -This book belongs to a new series of works under the general editorship -of Dr. J. E. Marr, F.R.S., for students of economic geology, a subject -which is receiving more and more attention in our great educational -centres. It is also hoped that the series will be useful to students of -general geology, as well as to surveyors and others concerned with the -practical uses of geology. The chapters in the present volume treat -severally on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, Segregation, Pneumatolysis, -Metasomasis, Deposition from Solution, Sedimentary Deposits, and -Secondary Changes in Lodes. - - - STEEL ROOF AND BRIDGE DESIGN. - - By W. HUME KERR, M.A., B.Sc., - LECTURER ON ENGINEERING, DRAWING AND DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. - - _With detailed Drawings. Demy 8vo._ =10s. 6d. net.= - -In accordance with a need long felt by engineering students, this work -presents the complete designs of four typical structures--two roof -trusses and two bridges--worked out with full arithmetical calculation -of stresses. There is a minimum of theory, and the author's object has -been to make the methods of design so clear as to enable students and -engineers to proceed to design independently. - - - THE BODY AT WORK. - - By ALEX HILL, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S., - SOMETIME MASTER OF DOWNING COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. - AUTHOR OF - 'AN INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE,' 'THE PHYSIOLOGIST'S NOTE-BOOK,' ETC. - - _With Illustrations, xii + 452 pages, Demy 8vo._ =16s. net.= - -This is a book for the non-professional reader, not a regular text-book -for the medical student. It does not assume any technical knowledge of -the sciences, such as chemistry, physics and biology, which lead up to a -formal study of physiology. Dr. Hill describes the phenomena of life, -their interdependence and causes, in language intelligible to people of -general education, and his book may be compared in this respect with Dr. -Hutchison's well-known work on 'Food.' There is perhaps a prejudice -against the ordinary popularizer of scientific knowledge, but when a -master of his subject takes up his pen to write for the public, we -cannot but be grateful that he has cast aside the trammels of the -text-book, and handled subjects of vital interest to humanity in so -broad and philosophic a manner. - - - A TEXT-BOOK OF EXPERIMENTAL - PSYCHOLOGY. - - By Dr. C. S. MYERS, - PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON UNIVERSITY. - - _Crown 8vo._ =8s. 6d. net.= - -The lack of a text-book on Experimental Psychology has been long felt, -the literature of the subject having been hitherto so scattered and -profuse that the student has to collect a small library of books and -periodicals. The present work gives an account of the more important -results obtained, and describes methods of experiment, with practical -directions for the student. - - - APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY. - - A Handbook for Students of Medicine. - - By ROBERT HUTCHISON, M.D., F.R.C.P., - PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON HOSPITAL, AND ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO THE - HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN. - AUTHOR OF 'FOOD AND THE PRINCIPLES OF DIETETICS,' ETC. - - _Crown 8vo._ =7s. 6d. net.= - -The author of a standard work on diet is not likely to err by being too -theoretical. The principle of Dr. Hutchison's new book is to bring -physiology from the laboratory to the bedside. 'Physiology,' he writes, -'is studied in the laboratory, and clinical medicine in the wards, and -too often one finds that the student is incapable of applying his -scientific knowledge to his clinical work.' - - - LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD, 41 & 43 MADDOX STREET, W. - - - - -Transcriber's Note - -Apparent printer's errors have been retained, unless stated below. - -"_" surrounding text represents italics. - -"=" surrounding text represents boldface print. - -Punctuation, capitalization, accents and formatting markup have been -made consistent. - -Illustrations have been moved to be closer to their discussion in the -text. - -Page vi, "Geheimrathe" changed to "Geheimrath" for consistency. -(Geheimrath Gille) - -Page 11, "Weiner" changed to "Wiener". ('The serenade, a fine, -interesting, and intellectual work, deserved warmer acknowledgment,' -wrote Speidel in the _Wiener Zeitung_.) - -Page 13, "music alnature" changed to "musical nature". (Though he could -not stoop to the attempt to dazzle his public by phenomenal feats of -virtuosity, the grace, tenderness, and truth of his musical nature -appealed to his southern audience, whilst the significance of his genius -dawned on the perception of one or two discerning musicians.) - -Page 54, "Weiner" changed to "Wiener". (The musical critic of the -_Wiener Zeitung_ writes that Herr Brahms was cordially received by his -"party.") - -Page 54, "muscial" changed to "musical". (If, however, the audience of -the evening is to be described as the "party" of the distinguished -artist, it must be said that his party consists of the cultivated -experts of musical Vienna.') - -Page 55, "give" changed to "gave". (Joachim and I probably gave concerts -here before.) - -Page 62, "Weiner" changed to "Wiener". (Hirsch did not fail to make use -of his opportunity in the _Wiener Zeitung_.) - -Page 106, "performe dearly" changed to "performed early". (The -Schicksalslied was published by Simrock in December, and was performed -early in 1872 in Bremen, Breslau, Frankfurt, and Vienna.) - -Page 117, "works" changed to "work". (Both as regards its form and its -treatment of masses, this work bears the stamp of a masterpiece.) - -Page 119, "Waiden" changed to "Weiden". ('Dort in den Weiden steht ein -Haus.') - -Page 139, "Solennis" changed to "Solemnis". (On December 6--Beethoven's -Missa Solemnis in D major.) - -On Pages 143, 185, 280, 282, 288 and 307, the caron over the letter "r" -in "Dvorák" has been omitted. - -"Wiesemann, I. 203." moved to page 319 to restore the Index's -alphabetical order. - -Page 277, "in is" changed to "is in". 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