When Brahms was about twenty years old, he began to copy into the notebook he always carried, long or short passages he had read and wished to keep He entitled this collection The Treasure Chest of the Young Kreisler. This practice belongs to an old tradition followed by Erasmus, Ben Jonson, and John Milton, to mention but three examples. Four of Brahms's notebooks have been preserved. In 1909, twelve years after the composer's death, the German music critic, author, and scholar Carl Krebs collected and published these notebooks in one small, handsome volume. The limited edition was soon exhausted and the collection was never reprinted. Krebs was aided in writing his informative Preface by the author Max Kalbeck, the first volume of whose monumental biography of Brahms had appeared in 1903. Kalbeck calls attention to these notebooks (as does Jan Swafford),convinced that they offer the key to Brahms's innermost being. The present volume, translated and introduced by Agnes Eisenberger, provides the original German with its English translation on facing pages. The annotations and the descriptions of the diverse authors are by Siegmund Levarie.
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This review is from: The Brahms Notebooks: The Little Treasure-Chest of the Young Kreisler : Quotations from Poets, Philosophers, and Artists (Ex) (Paperback)
This is a complation of 645 short passages Brahms kept in notebooks from the age of twenty. The are a invaluable insight into his taste in literature, mainly Jean Paul and Goethe. This collection of primary source material is definitely for the specialist in Brahms, as the reader should already know the main outlines of German literary history and its influence on Brahms and other composers. Beautiful presentation of the translations and reproduction of the original German text.
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