The Reception of Bach's Organ Works from Mendelssohn to Brahms

In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson explores how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century--Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms--responded to the model of Bach's organ music. The author shows that thi

Russell Stinson is the Josephine Emily Brown Professor of Music and College Organist at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. He is the author of J. S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales (Oxford, 2001), Bach: The Orgelb++chlein (reissued by Oxford, 1999), and The Bach Manuscripts of Johann Peter Kellner and His Circle.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Youth / The Grand Tour / Young Adulthood / The Leipzig Bach Recital /
The Final Years)
Chapter 2: Robert Schumann (Leipzig / Dresden and Beyond)
Chapter 3: Franz Liszt (The Traveling Virtuoso / Weimar / Transcriptions / Relationship with A. W. Gottschalg /
The Master Teacher)
Chapter 4: Johannes Brahms (An Overview / Brahms as a Scholar of Bach's Organ Works / Theoretical Sources
/ The Influence of Spitta's Bach Biography / Brahms's Inscriptions in the Organ-Music Volumes of the Bachgesellschaft Edition / The Marking of Themes and Motives / The Marking of Musical Form / The Marking of Rhythmic, Harmonic, Melodic, and Contrapuntal Irregularities Comparative Readings, Suggested Readings, and Corrections / The Marking of Ornamentation / Fingerings / Miscellaneous Annotations / Brahms as Scholar-Composer: the Eleven Chorale Preludes, op. 122 . )
Appendix: Johannes Brahms's Study Score of the Fantasy in G Major, BWV 572
Notes
Literature Cited