Chapter I: Front Matter

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