Article: Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His "Werther" Quartet.(Book review)

Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His "Werther" Quartet. By Peter H. Smith. (Musical Meaning and Interpretation.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. [ix, 325 p. ISBN 0-253-34483-2. $49.95.] Music examples, index, bibliography.

In 1853, writing in the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, Robert Schumann famously expressed his opinion that Brahms was "fated to give us the ideal expression of the times" (translation by Malcolm MacDonald, Brahms [New York: Schirmer Books, 1990], p. 18). Such an expression indeed emerges in Brahms's piano quartet in C minor, op. 60, the Werther Quartet, which takes its name from Brahms's own ...

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