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Nicole Grimes, Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). xv + 277 pp. £75.00.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2020
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- Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 18 , Special Issue 2: Brahms and the Influence of Beethoven , August 2021 , pp. 309 - 314
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press, 2020
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4 There are uncited author mentions in text (pp. 81, 125), an author name given incorrectly in text (p. 102), citing of an unpublished master's thesis in an argumentative ‘I’ statement (p. 154). D flat is called ‘the flat submediant of Fb’ (p. 156), different translations are offered for the same German text (pp. 125, 161), etc.
5 Frederick Beiser understands Romanticism to be subsumed under Idealism; see, for example, discussion in Beiser, , “Romanticism and Idealism”, in The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays on German Romantic Philosophy, ed. Nassar, Dalia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014): 30−46CrossRefGoogle Scholar.