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Chapter 13 - As Teacher

from Part II - Identities, Environments and Influences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2019

By
Johannes Behr
Edited by
Natasha Loges  and
Katy Hamilton
Natasha Loges
Affiliation:
Royal College of Music, London
Katy Hamilton
Affiliation:
Royal College of Music, London
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Summary

Brahms never studied at a music conservatory, nor did he ever teach at one. However, in private, individually negotiated settings, he was active as a teacher throughout his musical life in many ways. From his youth onwards, he gave piano lessons and sporadic theory lessons [see Ch. 1 ‘Childhood in Hamburg’]; later, he acted as occasional adviser to younger composers on many occasions, and even took on some regular students.

The young Brahms studied piano with Otto Cossel from 1840, changing to Eduard Marxsen in 1843, who also subsequently gave him composition lessons. At the age of fourteen at the latest, he began to give piano lessons himself, initially for free as a favour but soon in order to earn an income [see Ch. 8 ‘Finances’]. The few surviving statements of four of his students reveal that in these years he neither enjoyed teaching, nor was he particularly good at it.

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BrahmscontextteacherstudentcompositionpianoJennercounterpoint
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Brahms in Context , pp. 123 - 129
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Behr, J., ‘Brahms als Lehrer und Gutachter’, in Brahms Handbuch, 87–92Google Scholar
Behr, J., Johannes Brahms – Vom Ratgeber zum Kompositionslehrer. Eine Untersuchung in Fallstudien (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2007)Google Scholar
Behr, J., ‘“Seinen Unterricht kann ich ernstlich empfehlen.” Kontrapunkt bei Gustav Nottebohm und Eusebius Mandyczewski’, in Sandberger, W. and Wiesenfeldt, C. (eds.), Musik und Musikforschung. Johannes Brahms im Dialog mit der Geschichte (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2007), 155–83Google Scholar
Jenner, G., ‘Johannes Brahms as Man, Teacher, and Artist’, trans. S. Gillespie and E Kaestner, in Frisch, W. and Karnes, K. (eds.), Brahms and His World, 2nd edn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009), 381–423CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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