American Brahms Society Activities

Newsletter

Geiringer Scholarship
in Brahms Studies

Conferences

Publications

Newsletter

Members of the American Brahms Society receive the society’s Newsletter biannually. The Newsletter offers a diverse selection of writing on Brahms’s life, music, and cultural milieu. Each issue contains a feature article, some shorter essays, and a wide range of information of interest to Brahms enthusiasts and scholars, including conference reports, reviews of recent books, scores, and compact discs, and lists of recent scholarly articles and public presentations concerning Brahms and his music. Click here to see a list of recent lead articles. A sample lead article can be accessed by clicking here.

The Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies

Established in 1990 to honor the dedication of the late Karl Geiringer to graduate education and to build upon his legacy to Brahms research, the Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies is awarded annually in the amount of $1,500 as meritorious candidates present themselves. The competition is open to students who are in the final stages of preparing a doctoral dissertation in Brahms at a university in North America. Only those projects that demonstrate significant original thought and research are considered competitive. The decision on awarding the scholarship rests with the Board of Directors of the American Brahms Society.

Application Guidelines

Recipients of the Geiringer Scholarship, 1990-2007.

Conferences

The American Brahms Society periodically sponsors conferences on various aspects of Brahms studies. Past events have included: The International Brahms Conference at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1983; Brahms the Contemporary at Harvard University, 1997; and Brahms: Perspectives of Performance at Boston University, 2001. As future events are planned they will be posted here, as will be any conference that might be of particular interest to Brahms scholars and enthusiasts.

Publications

Since its founding in 1983, The American Brahms Society has sponsored a variety of print and audio projects that further the study and performance of Brahms's music. Recent projects include On Brahms and His Circle. Essays and Documentary Studies by Karl Geiringer, revised and enlarged by George Bozarth (Harmonie Park Press, 2006) and Brahms Piano Music on the Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls, A CD released on the Tacet label.

Brahms Studies

From 1994-2001 the American Brahms Society published a series of Brahms Studies Three volumes were published by the University of Nebraska Press under the editorship of David Brodbeck, including documentary studies; criticism, analysis, theory, and biography.