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Brahms' antiquarian interests, his studies of music from the Renaissance to the Classical periods, show in his work — he edited and helped publish a two-chorus motet by Mozart Venite Populi, he had a collection of sonatas by Scarlatti — and in his composition, his motets Op. 74, his interest in the fugue and the passacaglia (outside of organ music such as Josef Rheinberger's Sonata No. 8 ...
Brahms' Scherzo published 1927 (entire Sonata published 1935) Op. 78: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major ("Rain Sonata") violin, piano 1878–79 the main recurring (cyclic) theme of all 3 mvts is taken from the common theme of two songs: Regenlied ("Rain song") & Nachklang ("Echo") Op. 59 Nos. 3 & 4 Op. 100: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major violin ...
A cello sonata is piece written sonata form, often with the instrumentation of a cello taking solo role with piano accompaniment. [1] Some of the earliest cello sonatas were composed in the 18th century by Francesco Geminiani and Antonio Vivaldi, and since then other famous cello sonatas have grown to those by Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Fryderyk Chopin, and ...
Brahms began the work in the summer of 1868 at Wilhelmshaven, but it was not completed until May 1871. [1] The delay was primarily due to Brahms's hesitation over how the piece should end. Hesitant to make a decision, he began work on the Alto Rhapsody , Op. 53, which was completed in 1869 and first performed in 1870.
Brahms arranged the sonata (in D major) for cello and piano. [3] Others have also arranged it for cello and piano, including Paul Klengel (published by N. Simrock in 1897) [4] and Laszlo Varga (cello part only). [5] Arrangements for viola and piano have also be made, including by Leonard Davis, [6] Csaba Erdélyi, [7] and Thomas Riebl. [8]
This movement is in a long-lined sonata form, opening with solo cello over chords in the piano, a melody that gains and loses in intensity and dynamics, and then passes to the piano, where the same general curve is followed without the same notes; the breadth and lyrical quality of this passage are characteristic of much of the movement.
Geistliches Lied (English: "Sacred Song" or "Spiritual Song"), Op. 30, by Johannes Brahms is an 1856 work for four-part mixed chorus accompanied by organ or piano.The composition is in the form of a double canon set to text by Paul Flemming.
Brahms recorded in a pocket diary entry written in Thun, Switzerland, in August 1886, that he had set several poems to music, including Klaus Groth's "Wie Melodien zieht es mir leise durch den Sinn" (Like melodies it steals softly through my mind), [1] Hermann Lingg's "Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer" (My slumber grows more and more gentle), [1] Carl von Lemcke's "Verrat / Ich stand in einer ...