The second golden age of the Viennese symphony: Brahms, Bruckner, Dvořák, Mahler, and selected contemporaries, the symphonic repertoire, volume IV

Abstract

When A. Peter Brown died in March 2003 he had seen through to publication only two of the planned five volumes of his monumental series, The Symphonic Repertoire. Planned originally as a one-volume overview and designed to address the lack of an adequate up-to-date single author reference work on the genre, the project expanded exponentially into a five-volume magnum opus: a comprehensive history of the symphony and closely related orchestral genres from their origins in the eighteenth century through to the end of the twentieth. No mean feat, yet one for which the author came as highly recommended as any contemporary scholar of his generation. Former chair of the musicology department of Indiana University and a recognized authority on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music, A. Peter Brown was the author of more than eighty published articles and reviews and well known for his critical editions of Haydn's works.