The Life & Legacy of Johannes Brahms in two volumes is a well researched biography of famous composer, written by his student Florence May. The biographical materials have been gathered chiefly in the course of several Continental journeys the author undertook with Brahms. The goal of the work was to present the biographical account of composer's life, and to help the regular music-lover to get acquainted with Brahms' life, not getting into technical analysis of his compositions.
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Florence May. The Life & Legacy of Johannes Brahms
The Life & Legacy of Johannes Brahms
Table of Contents
Volume 2
PREFACE
Baden-Baden
Brahms as Teacher of the Pianoforte
Berlin
Vienna
Ischl
CHAPTER I. 1760-1845
CHAPTER II. 1845-1848
CHAPTER III. 1848-1853
CHAPTER IV. 1853
CHAPTER V. 1853
CHAPTER VI. 1854-1855
CHAPTER VII. 1855-1856
CHAPTER VIII. 1856-1858
CHAPTER IX. 1859
CHAPTER X. 1859-1861
CHAPTER XI. 1861-1862
APPENDICES
I. MUSICAL FORM—ABSOLUTE MUSIC—PROGRAMME-MUSIC—BERLIOZ AND WAGNER
II. THE MAGELONE ROMANCES
How a Strange Singer came to the Court of Provence
How the Knight Peter departed from his Parents
Peter sees the Beautiful Magelone
How the Knight sent Magelone a Message
How the Knight sent Magelone a Ring
How the Knight received another Message from the Beautiful Magelone
How Peter visited the Beautiful Magelone
A Tournament in Honour of the Beautiful Magelone
How Magelone went away with the Knight
III. THE HAMBURG LADIES' CHOIR98
Volume 2
CHAPTER XII. 1862–1864
CHAPTER XIII. 1864–1867
CHAPTER XIV. 1867–1869
CHAPTER XV. 1869–1872
CHAPTER XVI. 1872–1876
CHAPTER XVII. 1876–1878
CHAPTER XVIII. 1878–1881
CHAPTER XIX. 1881–1885
CHAPTER XX. 1885–1888
CHAPTER XXI. 1889–1895
CHAPTER XXII. 1895–1897
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Florence May
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'I have none,' he said one day, when I was speaking to him about pianists' hands; and he spread out his fingers, at my request, to show me the tips. 'Frau Schumann has them, and Rubinstein also; Rubinstein's are immense.'
His dress, though plain, was always perfectly neat in those days. He usually wore a short, loose, black alpaca coat, chosen, no doubt, with regard to his ideas of comfort. He was near-sighted, and made frequent use of a double eyeglass that he wore hanging on a thin black cord round his neck. When walking out, it was his custom to go bare-headed, and to carry his soft felt hat in his hand, swinging the arm energetically to and fro. The disengaged hand he often held behind him.
