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The Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, by Johannes Brahms was completed during the summer of 1864 [1] and published in 1865. [2] [3] It was dedicated to Her Royal Highness Princess Anna of Hesse. As with most piano quintets composed after Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet (1842), it is written for piano and string quartet (two violins, viola and ...
D. 366 No. 17 for piano solo is the same Ländler as D. 814 No. 1 for piano duet; #17 in Brahms' set is a piano solo arr. of D. 814 No. 1, though markedly different from Schubert's piano solo version D. 366 No. 17; published 1869 A. deest: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Paride ed Elena: Gavotte in A major (arr. by JB) piano 4-hands [4] published 1901
At the age of 10, Brahms made his debut as a performer in a private concert including Beethoven's quintet for piano and winds Op. 16 and a piano quartet by Mozart. He also played as a solo work an étude of Henri Herz. By 1845 he had written a piano sonata in G minor. [13]
Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.1 in E minor, G 407; Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.2 in F major, G 408; Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.3 in C major, G 409; Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.4 in E ♭ major, G 410; Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.5 in D major, G 411; Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.6 in A minor, G 412; Piano Quintet Op. 57 No.1 in A major, G 413; Piano Quintet Op. 57 No.2 ...
The Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25, was composed by Johannes Brahms between 1856 and 1861. It was premiered in 1861 in Hamburg , with Clara Schumann at the piano. It was also played in Vienna on 16 November 1862, with Brahms himself at the piano supported by members of the Hellmesberger Quartet . [ 1 ]
During Brahms' lifetime, the string quartet, like the symphony, was a genre dominated by the compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven.Brahms had remarked of Beethoven in 1872, a year before finishing his first quartets, "You can't have any idea what it's like always to hear such a giant marching behind you!"
String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111, is a work by Johannes Brahms composed in 1890 and published in 1891. It is known as the Prater Quintet. Brahms intended it to be his last piece of music, though he later produced a number of piano pieces and the two sonatas for clarinet or viola and piano.
Vincent C. K. Cheung has also observed that the opening G–E ♭ motion in the violin, coupled with the G–G–G–C in the piano greatly points toward the “Fate theme” in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. [8] Brahms's piece thus operates on multiple levels of reference (both literary and musical) and quotation.