Lateness and Brahms: Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism

Lateness and Brahms takes up the fascinating, yet understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Brahms's conspicuous and puzzling absence in previous scholarly accounts of the time and place raises important questions, and as Margaret Notley
demonstrates, the tendency to view him in neutralized, ahistorical terms has made his music seem far less interesting than it truly is.

In pursuit of an historical Brahms, Notley focuses on the later chamber music, drawing on various documents and perspectives, but with particular emphasis on the relevance of Western Marxist critical traditions.


Author: Margaret Notley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/01/2016
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780190628420

About the Author

Margaret Notley, an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Texas, has published widely on a number of topics. Her article Late-Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music and the Cult of the Classical Adagio won the 2000 Alfred Einstein Award given by the American Musicological Society.

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