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

Brahms's ElegiesThe Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture\nAuthor(s): Nicole Grimes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108464765, 978-1108464765\nSynopsis\nNicole 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,Nnie,Gesang der Parzen, and theVier ernste Gesngereveals the philosophical weight of this music. She considers the German tradition of thepoetics of loss that extends from the late-eighteenth-century texts by Hlderlin, Schiller and Goethe set by Brahms, and includes other philosophical and poetic works present in his library,to the mid-twentieth-century aesthetics of Adorno, who was preoccupied as much by Brahms as by their shared literary heritage. Her multifaceted focus on .