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The Music Division's collections include scholarship on Brahms and related subjects. This page highlights the materials available for use both on-site in the Performing Arts Reading Room and elsewhere.
Scholarship on Brahms continues to offer new insights into the composer and his works. The following texts offer a representative sample of both some of the seminal and more recent scholarly publications on him. The following titles offer a representative sample and link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.
The following titles are some of the earliest publications on Brahms; many include published versions of his correspondence. Items link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Several of these titles have also been scanned and are available online through HathiTrust. Links to additional online content are included when available.
These texts provide some of the most comprehensive information on the locations of Brahms sketches, manuscripts, first editions, and other primary sources. The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.
The Music Division has supported and generated scholarship on Brahms. Much of this research has been shared and made available on the Library's website. Some of these materials include short articles in the Digital Collection of the Moldenhauer Archives:
See the "Lectures, Interviews, & Concerts" page of this research guide for recordings of additional scholarship on Brahms presented by the Music Division.