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Chapter 6 - Correspondence

from Part I - Personality, People and Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2019

Natasha Loges
Affiliation:
Royal College of Music, London
Katy Hamilton
Affiliation:
Royal College of Music, London
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Summary

In the nineteenth century, letters functioned as bridges between people. Brahms as a correspondent was part of many interconnected social webs; thus, his letters offer a view into this world. The vicissitudes of lifelong friendships, such as that with Joseph Joachim, can be traced seismographically through his greetings: from the romantic, rapturous letters of the twenty-year-old (‘Dear Friend of my heart!’, ‘Beloved Friend!’) to the ‘Dearest’ he used until 1863, the reserved ‘Dear Joachim’ after the crisis in the Joachims’ marriage (1883) or ‘Most honoured one’ (1886), until the restored intimacy of ‘Dear Friend’ (1894). Many of the composer’s letters, beyond the lifelong, established correspondents like Joachim or Clara Schumann, also trace the Brahms network. They are interwoven into a synchronous toing and froing of letters, for example in the early correspondence between all the Schumann friends: Brahms, Joachim, Grimm, Dietrich and so forth, which can be read in parallel.

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Brahms in Context , pp. 52 - 59
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Further Reading

Bohnenkamp, A. and Wiethölter, W. (eds.), Der Brief – Ereignis & Objekt, Katalog der Ausstellung im Freien Deutschen Hochstift Frankfurter Goethe-Museum (Frankfurt am Main and Basel: Stroemfeld, 2008)Google Scholar
Bohnenkamp, A. and Richter, E., Brief-Edition im digitalen Zeitalter (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013)Google Scholar
Borchard, B., ‘Entwurf eines Künstlerlebens. Max Kalbecks Ausgabe der Brahms-Briefe’, in Harten, U. (ed.), Skizzen einer Persönlichkeit. Max Kalbeck zum 150. Geburtstag (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2007), 247–59Google Scholar
Sandberger, W., ‘Neue Schätze im Brahms-Institut Lübeck – zur Brahms-Motette “Es ist das Heil uns kommen her” op. 29, Nr. 1’, Brahms-Studien 13 (2002), 924Google Scholar
Struck, M., ‘Brahms-Philologie ohne die Briefe des Meisters? Eine Fallstudie’, in Bennwitz, H., Buschmeier, G. and Riethmüller, A. (eds.), Komponistenbriefe des 19. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 1997), 2656Google Scholar
Struck, M., ‘Revisionsbedürftig: Zur gedruckten Korrespondenz von Johannes Brahms und Clara Schumann. Auswirkungen irrtümlicher oder lückenhafter Überlieferung auf werkgenetische Bestimmungen (mit einem unausgewerteten Brahms-Brief zur Violinsonate op. 78)’, Die Musikforschung 41 (1988), 235–41Google Scholar

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