Note 257 — Chapter XVI

For literature on Brahms the following works are recommended: the comprehensive Life by Fuller-Maitland; the essay in Hadow's Studies in Modern Music; that in Mason's From Grieg to Brahms; that by Spitta in Studies in Music by Robin Grey; the first essay in Mezzotints in Modern Music by Huneker; the biographical and critical article in Grove's Dictionary; Chapter IX in Volume 8 of the Art of Music, and Chapter XIII in Volume 2. There are also some stimulating remarks on Brahms's style in general, and on the attitude of a past generation towards his work, in those delightful essays, in 2 volumes, By the Way, About Music by the late well-known critic, W.F. Apthorp.