Since its founding in 1983, The American Brahms Society has co-sponsored a variety of print and audio projects that further the study and performance of Brahms’s music. These include:
- Bozarth, George S., ed. Brahms Studies: Analytical and Historical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
- Brodbeck, David, ed. Brahms Studies, 3 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994–2001.
- Geiringer, Karl. On Brahms and His Circle: Essays and Documentary Studies by Karl Geiringer. Revised and enlarged by George S. Bozarth. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2006.
- Loges, Natasha. Brahms and His Poets. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2017.
- Murphy, Scott. Brahms and the Shaping of Time. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018.
- Platt, Heather and Peter H. Smith, eds. Expressive Intersections in Brahms Essays in Analysis and Meaning. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.
In recent years, the Society has formalized this process to become the ABS Publication Subvention. Recent books that have been awarded a subvention include:
2024
- Brodbeck, David. Brahms Patriotic and Political. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, forthcoming.
2021
- Uhde, Katharina, and Michael Uhde, eds. Joseph Joachim: Identities / Identitäten. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2024.
2020 (two winners)
- Goertzen, Valerie Woodring, and Robert Whitehouse Eshbach, eds. The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2021.
- McManus, Laurie. Brahms in the Priesthood of Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century German Musical Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.