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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

Laurie McManus*
Affiliation:
Shenandoah [email protected]

Abstract

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References

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2 Grimes implies that Brahms was a non-believer, thus revising Daniel Beller-McKenna's recent exploration of Brahms's Protestant religiosity in Brahms and the German Spirit (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004)Google Scholar.

3 James A. John, ‘Johannes Brahms's Nänie, Op. 82: A Study in Context and Content’ (DMA diss., Eastman School of Music, 2001): 103−5.

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are uncited author mentions in text (pp. 81, 125), an author name given incorrectly in text (p. 102), citing of an unpublished master's thesis in an argumentative ‘I’ statement (p. 154).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): 3046CrossRefGoogle Scholar.