Musical Meaning for the Few: Instances of Private Reception in the Music of Brahms

The received view of Brahms as a champion of “absolute” music has dominated the scholarly reception of his compositional output for over a century, and with good reason. Except in a few early works, Brahms rarely published his instrumental music with any of the suggestive clues that his contemporar...

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Main Author: Dillon R. Parmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2007-04-01
Series:Current Musicology
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5093