CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
| PAGE | ||
| Personal Recollections | [1] | |
| CHAPTER I 1760-1845 | ||
| The Brahms family—Johann Jakob Brahms; his youth and marriage—Birth and childhood of Johannes—The Alster Pavilion—Otto F. W. Cossel—Johannes gives a private subscription concert | [45] | |
| CHAPTER II 1845-1848 | ||
| Edward Marxsen—Johannes' first instruction in theory—Herr Adolph Giesemann—Winsen-an-der-Luhe—Lischen—Choral Society of school-teachers—'A.B.C.' Part-song by Johannes—The Amtsvogt Blume—First public appearance—First visit to the opera | [63] | |
| CHAPTER III 1848-1853 | ||
| Johannes' first public concert—Years of struggle—Hamburg Lokals—Louise Japha—Edward Reményi—Sonata in F sharp minor—First concert-tour as Reményi's accompanist—Concerts in Winsen, Celle, Lüneburg, and Hildesheim—Musical parties in 1853—Leipzig and Weimar—Robert Schumann—Joseph Joachim | [83] | |
| CHAPTER IV 1853 | ||
| Brahms and Reményi visit Joachim in Hanover—Concert at Court—Visit to Liszt—Joachim and Brahms in Göttingen—Wasielewsky, Reinecke, and Hiller—First meeting with Schumann—Albert Dietrich | [106] | |
| CHAPTER V 1853 | ||
| Schumann's article 'New Paths'—Johannes in Hanover—Sonatas in C major and F minor—Visit to Leipzig—First publications—Julius Otto Grimm—Return to Hamburg viâ Hanover—Lost Violin Sonata—Songs—Marxsen's influence as teacher | [126] | |
| CHAPTER VI 1854-1855 | ||
| Brahms at Hanover—Hans von Bülow—Robert and Clara Schumann in Hanover—Schumann's illness—Brahms in Düsseldorf—Variations on Schumann's theme in F sharp minor—B major Trio; first public performance in New York—First attempt at symphony | [153] | |
| CHAPTER VII 1855-1856 | ||
| Lower Rhine Festival—Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt—Edward Hanslick—Brahms as a concert-player—Retirement and study—Frau Schumann in Vienna and London—Julius Stockhausen—Schumann's death | [179] | |
| CHAPTER VIII 1856-1858 | ||
| Brahms and Joachim in Düsseldorf—Grimm in Göttingen—Brahms' visit to Detmold—Carl von Meysenbug—Court Concertmeister Bargheer—Joachim and Liszt—Brahms returns to Detmold—Summer at Göttingen—Pianoforte Concerto in D minor and Orchestral Serenade in D major tried privately in Hanover | [204] | |
| CHAPTER IX 1859 | ||
| First public performances of the Pianoforte Concerto in Hanover, Leipzig, and Hamburg—Brahms, Joachim, and Stockhausen appear together in Hamburg—First public performance of the Serenade in D major—Ladies' Choir—Fräulein Friedchen Wagner—Compositions for women's chorus | [225] | |
| CHAPTER X 1859-1861 | ||
| Third season at Detmold—'Ave Maria' and 'Begräbnissgesang'; performed in Hamburg and Göttingen—Second Serenade first publicly performed in Hamburg—Lower Rhine Festival—Summer at Bonn—Music at Herr Kyllmann's—Life in Hamburg—Variations on an original theme first performed in Leipzig by Frau Schumann—'Marienlieder'—First public performance of the Sextet in B flat by the Joachim Quartet in Hanover | [243] | |
| CHAPTER XI 1861-1862 | ||
| Concert season in Hamburg—Frau Denninghoff-Giesemann—Brahms in Hamm—Herr Völckers and his daughters—Dietrich's visit to Brahms—Music at the Halliers' and Wagners'—First public performance of the G minor Quartet—Brahms in Oldenburg—Second Serenade performed in New York—First and second Pianoforte Quartets—'Magelone Romances'—First public performances of the Handel Variations and Fugue in Hamburg and Leipzig by Frau Schumann—Brahms' departure for Vienna | [262] | |
| APPENDIX No. I | ||
| MUSICAL FORM—ABSOLUTE MUSIC—PROGRAMME MUSIC—BERLIOZ AND WAGNER | [282] | |
| APPENDIX No. II | ||
| THE MAGELONE ROMANCES—PIERRE DE PROVENCE | [290] | |
| APPENDIX No. III | ||
| RULES OF THE HAMBURG LADIES' CHOIR | [304] | |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Brahms at the Age of Twenty | [Frontispiece] |
| No. 60, Speckstrasse, Hamburg | To face page [52] |
| Brahms and Joachim, 1855 | " [182] |
| Brahms and Stockhausen, 1868 | " [262] |