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Frontispiece.  LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD: 1905.Frontispiece.
From a photograph by Rudolf Krziwanek, Vienna.
J. Brahms.
LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD: 1905.

 

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)


[Pg v]

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

 PAGE
CHAPTER XII
1862-1864
Vienna—Musical societies—Leading musicians—The Prater—Brahms'appearance at a Hellmesberger Quartet concert—Brahms' firstconcert in Vienna—Conductorship of Hamburg Philharmonic—FirstSerenade at Gesellschaft concert—Brahms' second concert—RichardWagner—Second Serenade at Vienna Philharmonic concert—Returnto Hamburg—Brahms elected conductor of ViennaSingakademie—Return to Vienna—Singakademie concerts underBrahms1
  
CHAPTER XIII
1864-1867
Frau Schumann in Baden-Baden—Circle of friends there—HermannLevi—Madame Pauline Viardot-Garcia—The Landgräfin ofHesse and the Pianoforte Quintet—Concert-journey—The HornTrio—Frau Caroline Schnack—Last visit to Detmold—FirstSonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello—The German Requiem—Brahmsat Zürich—Billroth—Brahms and Joachim on a concert-tourin Switzerland—Hans v. Bülow—Reinthaler27
  
CHAPTER XIV
1867-1869
Brahms' holiday journey with his father and Gänsbacher—Austrianconcert-tour with Joachim—The German Requiem—Performanceof the first three choruses in Vienna—Tour with Stockhausen inNorth Germany and Denmark—Performance of the GermanRequiem in Bremen Cathedral—Brahms settles finally in Vienna—Brahmsand Stockhausen give concerts in Vienna and Budapes
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