Essays. Time and memory : concert life, science, and music in Brahms's Vienna / Leon Botstein. Johannes Brahms, solitary altruist / Peter F. Ostwald. Brahms the godfather / Styra Avins. Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms / Nancy B. Reich. The pianos of Johannes Brahms / George S. Bozarth and Stephen H. Brady. Brahms, The third symphony, and the new German school / David Brodbeck. The "Brahms" fog : on analyzing Brahmsian influences at the fin de siècle / Walter Frisch. Between work and play : Brahms as performer of his own music / Roger Moseley. Brahms, Max Klinger, and the promise of Gesamtkunstwerk : revisiting the Brahms-Phantasie (1894) / Kevin C. Karnes
Reception and analysis. Five early works by Brahms (1862) / Adolf Schubring. Discovering Brahms (1862-72) / Eduard Hanslick. The Brahms symphonies (1887) / Hermann Kretzschmar. Brahms's a cappella choral pieces, op. 104 (1892) / Heinrich Schenker. Brahms's Four serious songs, op. 121 (1914) / Max Kalbeck. "A modern of moderns" : Brahms's First symphony in New York and Boston / selected and annotated by George S. Bozarth
Memoirs. Johannes Brahms : the last days, memories and letters / Eduard Hanslick. My early acquaintance with Brahms / Richard Heuberger. Remembering Johannes Brahms : Brahms and his Krefeld friends / Heinz von Beckerath. Johannes Brahms as man, teacher, and artist / Gustav Jenner. Brahms and the newer generation : personal reminiscences / by Alexander von Zemlinsky and Karl Weigl
"Dedicated to Johannes Brahms."