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Chapter 7 - Holidays

from Part I - Personality, People and Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2019

Natasha Loges
Affiliation:
Royal College of Music, London
Katy Hamilton
Affiliation:
Royal College of Music, London
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Summary

For Brahms, holidays did not just mean a nice break; they constituted important or even essential periods of composition. This is best seen through the example of his First Symphony Op. 68: as is well known, it had its roots in a birthday greeting of 12 September 1868 to Clara Schumann, in which Brahms notated an alphorn call he allegedly heard during a walk from Grindelwald to Lauterbrunnen. He then worked on the symphony in summer 1874 in Rüschlikon (near Zurich) and in 1876 in Sassnitz on the island of Rügen where he enjoyed the landscape. As he wrote to his publisher Fritz Simrock, the Symphony ‘was dangling’ from the Wissower Klinken cliffs, the famous chalk formations on the east coast of the island. The manuscript was finally completed in September 1876 in Lichtenthal, near the fashionable spa town of Baden-Baden, where the composer often stayed.

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Brahms in Context , pp. 60 - 68
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Further Reading

Draheim, J. and Reimann, U. (eds.), Johannes Brahms in den Bädern Baden-Baden, Wiesbaden, Bad Ischl, Karlsbad (Baden-Baden: Kulturamt der Stadt Baden-Baden, 1997)Google Scholar
Engelhardt, M., ‘Italien in Brahms’ Briefen’, in Bolin, N., von Blumröder, C. and Misch, I. (eds.), Aspetti Musicali: Musikhistorische Dimensionen Italiens 1600 bis 2000: Festschrift für Dietrich Kämper zum 65. Geburtstag (Cologne-Rheinkassel: Dohr, 2001), 5765Google Scholar
Fuchs, A., ‘Johannes Brahms: Auf seinen Spuren in Kärnten’, Die Brücke 2/4 (Autumn 1976), 235–51Google Scholar
Kneif, T., ‘Konzertreisen und Sommeraufenthalte’, in Jacobsen, C. (ed.), Johannes Brahms. Leben und Werk (Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel 1983), 36–9Google Scholar
Prein, P., Bürgerliches Reisen im 19. Jahrhundert. Freizeit, Kommunikation und soziale Grenzen (Münster: LIT, 2005)Google Scholar
Stahmer, K., ‘Brahms auf Rügen. Der Sommeraufenthalt eines Komponisten’, Brahms-Studien 3 (1979), 5968Google Scholar

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