390 Thomas Quigley Second Piano Concerto in B-flat major, op. 83, a total of 22 times in as many cities, during a three-month period.39 As for travelling in general, a review of Geiringer’s Brahms biography and Kurt Stephenson’s collection of Brahms correspondence 40 shows that Brahms made regular train trips during his lifetime back and forth between Hamburg and Wien and Bonn/Frankfurt and Wien. These trips were occasions to see family (Hamburg) and also to visit the Schumanns and other friends (Bonn and Frankfurt). There are two specific train events that I would like to highlight because of more detailed information being available for both of them: the visit of Brahms’s father Jakob to Wien in 1867; and Brahms’s anguished trip to attend the funeral and burial of his dearest friend Clara Schumann in the German Rheinland in 1896. Brahms made many entreaties to his father to come visit him in Wien; finally, Jakob agreed to come in 1867. In a letter of 23.7.1867,41 Brahms gives his father detailed instructions on making the journey by train, including a schedule that shows all the stops/changes. Brahms covers many details in this letter: from what kind of ticket to buy; to which side of the train to sit on for the best view between Dresden and Praha; to possible opportunities for stop-overs if the trip is too much for Jakob to do in one stage. And just as travel experts advise today, he reminds his father to pack light, have the correct documentation, and bring enough local currency to do local transactions.42 Table 1 below details the train information in Brahms’s letter in tabular form.He suggests two possible schedules; I identify them as ›Brahms 1-1867‹ and ›Brahms 2-1867‹ in Columns 1 and 2, respectively, of the Table. The third column, ›Brahms 3-2011‹ is my re-creation of the same journey using the same route.43 The comparisons are interesting ones:39 George S. Bozarth: Brahms, Johannes. 4. At the summit, Grove Music Online, in: Oxford Music On-line <www.oxfordmusiconline.com>, 27.6.2011. See also Meininger Hofkapelle, in: Wikipedia. [Ger-man ed.], <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meininger_ Hofkapelle>, 27.6.2011.40 Citation for Geiringer in Note 23; citation for Brahms-Stephenson in Note 22.41 Brahms-Stephenson: p. 132—35 (see Note 22); English translation in Johannes Brahms: Johannes Brahms. Life and Letters, selected and annotated by Styra Avins; translations by Josef Eisinger and Styra Avins, New York, Clarendon, 2004, Letter #213, p. 347—49. 42 David Stewart: Tips for First Time International Travelers, 14.4.2011, <http://www.ehow.com/info_ 8221706_ tips-first-time-international-travelers.html>, 27.6.2011.43 Re-creation done using » Bahn Auskunft, Preise, Buchung « in the Deutsche Bahn website <www.-bahn.de>, 27.6.2011. In the default routings that the Deutsche Bahn trip planner gave me for Ham-burg-Berlin-Wien, there is only one train routing in the current railway timetable that seems to close -ly follow the 1867 routing. Eurocity Train EC177, named the » Johannes Brahms « , follows the 1867 route, but starts in Berlin. The corresponding return train, EC178, is also named the » Johannes Brahms « , but the return route (the same route in reverse) begins in Praha and then goes to Berlin, see details at <http://czech-transport.com/index.php?id=420> (for EC177) and <http://czech-transport.com/index.php?id=427> (for EC178), both 27.6.2011.