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The Brahms guitar, or cello-guitar, is an eight-string guitar with a conventional resonating body, but also an external, box-shaped resonator. Classical guitarist Paul Galbraith, in collaboration with luthier David Rubio, invented the instrument in 1994. David Rubio's protégé, luthier Martin Woodhouse, innovated the design and continues to ...
An early version of the second movement was first composed in 1854 after Robert Schumann's attempted suicide (and later used in his first piano concerto). Most of the Requiem was composed after Brahms's mother's death in 1865. He added the fifth movement after the 1868 premiere, and in 1869 the final work was published.
The second movement used some previously abandoned musical material written in 1854, the year of Schumann's mental collapse and attempted suicide, and of Brahms's move to Düsseldorf to assist Clara Schumann and her young children. [1] Brahms completed all but what is now the fifth movement by August 1866. [3]
Op. 15 Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor : piano, orchestra 1854–58 original version as Sonata for Two Pianos 1854 (Mvts 2 & 3 are Anh. 2a/2) (discarded), 2nd version as Symphony in D minor in 4 mvts (4th mvt never written) 1854–55 (Mvts 2 & 3 are Anh. 2a/2) (discarded), final version (Piano Concerto) in 3 mvts (only 1st mvt from previous versions, 2nd & 3rd mvts new) 1855–58;
The earliest known recording of any movement of Hungarian Dances was a condensed piano-based rendition of Hungarian Dance No. 1, from 1889, played by Brahms himself, and was known to have been recorded by Theo Wangemann, an assistant to Thomas Edison. The following dialogue can be heard in the recording itself, before the music starts:
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!"
Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; The score of Brahms's Variations has been posted by the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at the Indiana University School of Music. The same library is the source of the Haydn link included in the comparison above. Rodda, Richard E. "Program notes".
The Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24, is a work for solo piano written by Johannes Brahms in 1861. It consists of a set of twenty-five variations and a concluding fugue, all based on a theme from George Frideric Handel's Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in B ♭ major, HWV 434.