Johannes Brahms/Bibliography

From Citizendium
< Johannes Brahms
Revision as of 18:05, 5 March 2009 by imported>Dalton Holland Baptista (moving stuff to subpages)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is a stub and thus not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
A list of key readings about Johannes Brahms.
Please sort and annotate in a user-friendly manner. For formatting, consider using automated reference wikification.

Since Brahms was a German composer it seems appropriate to give also a short selection of some of the more important books about him in German.

Literature in English

  • Frisch, Walter. Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
  • Frisch, Walter, ed. Brahms and His World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
  • Frisch, Walter. Brahms: The Four Symphonies. New York, N.Y.: Schirmer Books, 1996.
  • Musgrave, Michael. The Music of Brahms. London: Routledge, 1985.
  • Musgrave, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Brahms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  • Musgrave, Michael, ed. A Brahms Reader. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000.
  • Musgrave, Michael, and Bernard D. Sherman, eds. Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Swafford, Jan. Johannes Brahms: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Literature in German

  • Floros, Constantin. Johannes Brahms: "Frei, aber einsam": Ein Leben für eine poetische Musik. Zürich: Arche, 1997.
  • Gärtner, Heinz. Johannes Brahms: "Trüge ich nicht den Namen Kreisler": Biografie eines Doppellebens. München: Langen Müller, 2003.
  • Hofmann, Renate, and Kurt Hofmann, Hrsg. Über Brahms: Von Musikern, Dichtern und Liebhabern: Eine Anthologie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1997.
  • Kalbeck, Max. Johannes Brahms. 4 Bände. Wien: Wiener Verlag, / Berlin: Deutsche Brahms Gesellschaft, 1904-1914. (Many editions.) Online edition at zeno.org
  • Schmidt, Christian Martin. Johannes Brahms und seine Zeit. 1983. 2., durchgesehene Auflage. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag , 1998.
  • Schmidt, Christian Martin. Reclams Musikführer Johannes Brahms. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1994.
  • Schmidt, Christian Martin. Brahms-Symphonien Ein musikalischer Werkführer. München: C. H. Beck, 1999.
  • Ulm, Renate, Hrsg. Johannes Brahms: Das Symphonische Werk: Entstehung, Deutung, Wirkung. Mit einem Vorwort von Lorin Maazel. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, / Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1996.