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In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the -dimension of their distance-, as argued later? Both wrote autonomously conceived music, both held on to traditional forms, and both rejected program music. To find an answer to this question, part I tries to elucidate Brahms relation to Bruckner in its biographic, historical, artistic and art-theoretical aspects. At the center of the second part, whose subject is Brahms early work, is the question whether...

Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch, 1934 in Chemnitz geboren, ist in Deutschland und Österreich aufgewachsen und ging 1955 als Fulbright Stipendiat an die Universität von Kalifornien in Berkeley. Nach der Promotion zum Doktor der Philosophie, der Hochzeit mit einer Amerikanerin und dem Erwerb der amerikanischen Staatsbürgerschaft lehrte, publizierte und übersetzte er an der Indiana University als Professor für englische und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Spezialgebiet Romantik.Einer vierzigjährigen, größtenteils transatlantischen Zweitbeziehung in Deutschland entsprangen an die...

Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents in their music that can be deciphered by a variety of methods. This book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and discusses Beethoven's committed art, the core ideas of the Ring of the Nibelung and of the Symphony of a Thousand, Wagner's idea of a religion of...