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Chapter 8 - Finances

from Part II - Identities, Environments and Influences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2019

By
Jakob Hauschildt
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

During his lifetime, Brahms accumulated a sizeable fortune. Although the early days were not without difficulties, his finances then accumulated steadily and virtually uninterruptedly. When he died in 1897, he left behind not only manuscripts of his own works, but also an extensive collection of other composers’ autograph manuscripts (including of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, etc.) as well as bonds worth over 181,000 Gulden.The size of the sum is evident when one compares the rent that he paid his landlady Coelestine Truxa between 1887 and 1897 for his three-room apartment in Vienna’s Karlsgasse, which amounted half-yearly to 347 Gulden and 25 Kreuzer.

Brahms grew up in the Hamburg‘Gängeviertel’, an area of workers, small-scale artisans and tradesmen in modest circumstances [see Ch. 1 ‘Childhood in Hamburg’]. Later on, when he could determine his own lifestyle, luxury still held no appeal.

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BrahmscontextincomefreelancecurrencyarrangementspublishingsymphonyLindeckFaber
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Brahms in Context , pp. 71 - 79
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Further Reading

Ehlert, G., ‘Brahms, Schönberg und ihre Berliner Verleger’, in Dümling, A. (ed.), Verteidigung des musikalischen Fortschritts. Brahms und Schönberg (Hamburg: Argument, 1990), 111–16Google Scholar
Lütteken, L., ‘Brahms – eine bürgerliche Biographie?’, in Brahms Handbuch, 24–43 Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 3rd edn, 16 vols. (Leipzig: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1874–8)Google Scholar
Martin, M. (ed.), Johannes Brahms. Briefwechsel mit dem Mannheimer Bankprokuristen Wilhelm Lindeck 1872–1882 (Heidelberg: Stadtarchiv Mannheim, 1983)Google Scholar
Stephenson, K. (ed.), Johannes Brahms und Fritz Simrock – Weg einer Freundschaft. Briefe des Verlegers an den Komponisten (Hamburg: J. J. Augustin, 1961)Google Scholar

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