Brahms's Elegies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108474498)

Nicole Grimes provides a compellingly fresh perspective on a series of Brahms's elegiac works by bringing together the disciplines of historical musicology, German studies, and cultural history. Her exploration of the expressive potential of Schicksalslied, N nie, Gesang der Parzen, and the Vier ernste Ges nge reveals the philosophical weight of this music. She considers the German tradition of the poetics of loss that extends from the late-eighteenth-century texts by H lderlin, Schiller and Goethe set by Brahms, and includes other philosophical and poetic works present in his library, to the mid-twentieth-century aesthetics of Adorno, who was preoccupied as much by Brahms as by their shared literary heritage. Her multifaceted focus on endings - the end of tonality, the end of the nineteenth century, and themes of loss in the music - illuminates our understanding of Brahms and lateness, and the place of Brahms in the fabric of modernist culture.

Author: Nicole Grimes
ISBN-10: 1108474497
ISBN-13: 9781108474498
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2019
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.06w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2019