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The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms (Hardcover)
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The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms (Hardcover)
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Influenced by Robert and Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim,
Johannes Brahms not only learned to play the organ at the beginning
of his career, but also wrote significant compositions for the
instrument as a result of his early counterpoint study. He composed
for the organ only sporadically or as part of larger choral and
instrumental works in his subsequent career. During the final year
of his life, however, he returned to pure organ composition with a
set of chorale preludes--though many of these are thought to have
been revisions of earlier works. Today, the organ works of Johannes
Brahms are recognized as beautifully-crafted compositions by church
and concert organists across the world and have become a
much-cherished component of the repertoire. Until now, however,
most scholarly accounts of Brahms's life and work treat his works
for the organ as a minor footnote in his development as a composer.
Precisely because the collection of organ works is not extensive,
the pieces--composed at different times during Brahms's
lifetime--help to map his path as a composer, pinpointing various
stages in his artistic development. In this volume, Barbara Owen
offers the first in-depth study of this corpus, considering
Brahms's organ works in relation to his background, methods, and
overall artistic development, his contacts with organs and
organists, the influence of his predecessors and contemporaries,
and analyses of each specific work and its place in Brahms's
career. Her expert history and analysis of Brahms's individual
organ works and their interpretation also investigates contemporary
practices relative to the performance of these pieces. The book's
three valuable appendices present aguide to editions of Brahms's
organ works, a discussion of the organ in Brahms's world that
highlights some organs the composer would have heard, and a listing
of the organ transcriptions of Brahms's work.
Blending unique insights into composition and performance
practice, this book will be read eagerly by performers, students,
and scholars of the organ, Brahms, and the music of the Nineteenth
Century.
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