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Though Brahms often wrote music without an explicit or public program, [83] in his Symphony No. 4 alone he musically alluded to the second movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, the texted chaconne of Bach's Cantata No. 150, and to Schumann's music, from musical cryptograms of Clara to the Fantasie in C with its use of Beethoven's An die ferne ...
The New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962, is widely regarded as one of the most controversial in the orchestra's history. Featuring a performance by Glenn Gould of the First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms, conducted by its music director, Leonard Bernstein, the concert became famous because of Bernstein's remarks from the podium prior to the concerto.
1950 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98; 1951 Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38, Spring; 1953 Auber: La Muette de Portici Overture, Symphony Hall Broadcast; 1953 Carl Nielsen: Symphony 5, Symphony Hall Broadcast; 1955 Wagner: Tannhäuser, Elisabeth's Aria - 'Dich Teure Halle' Soprano: Margaret Hershaw, Symphony Hall Broadcast
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;
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The concerto makes use of the musical motif A–E–F, a permutation of F–A–E, which stood for a personal motto of Joachim, Frei aber einsam ("free but lonely"). [6] Thirty-four years earlier, Brahms had been involved in a collaborative work using the F-A-E motif in tribute to Joachim: the F-A-E Sonata of 1853.
Academic Festival Overture (German: Akademische Festouvertüre), [1] Op. 80, by Johannes Brahms, was one of a pair of contrasting concert overtures — the other being the Tragic Overture, Op. 81. Brahms composed the work during the summer of 1880 as a tribute to the University of Breslau , which had notified him that it would award him an ...
The first of these is in F minor, which is followed by a brief episode that features the "fate motif" from Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in the same key as the symphony, C minor. After a return of the initial F minor subject, the second subject area begins in the key of the relative major (A ♭ major) but ends in D ♭ major. Brahms ...