Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture

by Nicole Grimes

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108474497
• ISBN13: 9781108474498
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.9"