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Chapter 10 - As Conductor

from Part II - Identities, Environments and Influences

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

The earliest evidence of Brahms’s activity as a conductor comes from 1847, when as a fourteen-year-old he led a chorus of school children in the small town of Winsen near his native Hamburg. His last reported appearance on a podium was with the Berlin Philharmonic in January 1896, aged sixty-two. Over a span of almost fifty years between these two moments, Brahms conducted a wide range of amateur and professional ensembles in many different locations across the Austrian Empire, Germany and Switzerland.

Brahms’s activities on the podium coincide with the steady rise of the professional conductor during the nineteenth century, embodied in the Austro-German sphere at first by Weber, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Spohr and Spontini, and later by Richard Strauss, Mahler, Richter and Bülow.

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Brahms in Context , pp. 88 - 97
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Further Reading

Bass, J. K., ‘Johannes Brahms the Conductor: Historical Context, Chronology, and Critical Reception,’ DMA thesis, University of Miami (2005)Google Scholar
Drinker, S., Brahms and His Women’s Choruses (Merion, PA: Musurgia Publishers, 1952)Google Scholar
Huschke, K., Johannes Brahms als Pianist, Dirigent und Lehrer (Karlsruhe: Friedrich Gutich Verlag, 1935)Google Scholar
Komorn, M., Johannes Brahms als Chordirigent in Wien und seine Nachfolger bis zum Schubert-Jahr 1928 (Vienna and Leipzig: Universal, 1928)Google Scholar
Komorn, M., ‘Brahms as Conductor’, Musical Quarterly 19/2 (April 1933), 151–7Google Scholar
Musgrave, M., ‘Brahms the Conductor’, in Musgrave, A Brahms Reader (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), 136–47Google Scholar

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