The research for this review was funded by a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship under the 7^th Framework Programme of the European Commission.

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² The collection of autographs housed at the Brahms archives of the State and University Library Carl-von-Ossietzky in Hamburg is on permanent loan from the Johannes-Brahms-Gesellschaft Hamburg, founded in 1969. For an overview of the history and holdings of this archive, see Johannes Brahms. Quellen, Text, Rezeption, Interpretation: Internationaler Brahms Kongress, Hamburg 1997, ed. Friedhelm Krummacher, Michael Struck, Constantin Floros, and Peter Petersen (Munich: Henle, 1999) 279–88.

³ Highlights of the collection of illustrations and reproductions include a letter from Brahms to Joachim, dated 19 June 1854, containing a confession of Brahms's love for Clara Schumann (60–61); an autograph of Intermezzo No. 4 from Seven Fantasies for Piano, Op. 116 of 1892 entitled ‘Notturno’ (117); and the letter from Brahms to Hermine Spies (undated, but before 1885) expressing the composer's wish to meet the singer (136).

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¹³ Currently housed at Upper Belvedere, Vienna.

¹⁴ Currently housed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

¹⁵ ‘Doch war es weniger diese Musikliebe, als vielmehr die Ähnlichkeit in der ganzen Kunstanschauung, was Feuerbach mit Brahms in Freundschaft und Seelenverwandschaft verband’. Eduard Hanslick, ‘Nänie’, Concerte, Componisten und Virtuosen, 376 (my translation).

¹⁶ ‘...dieselbe unerschütterliche Richtung auf das Große, Erhabene und Ideale, die oft bis zur herben Strenge und Abgeschlossenheit führte’. Hanslick, ‘Nänie’, Concerte, Componisten und Virtuosen, 376.

¹⁷ The Hanslick review from which Floros cites is Hanslick, ‘Neue Klavierstücke von Brahms’, Fünf Jahre Musik, 1891–1895: Kritiken (Berlin: Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Literatur, 1896), 257–59.

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¹⁹ For example, ‘Through an eccentric rhythmic structure he transmutes the three-fourth beat repeatedly into a two-fourth one’. (85) See also 50, 105.