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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 ...
Fünf Gesänge (Five songs), Op. 104, is a song cycle of five part songs for mixed choir a cappella by Johannes Brahms. Composed in 1888 when Brahms was a 55-year-old bachelor, the five songs reflect an intensely nostalgic and even tragic mood. Brahms has chosen texts which centre on lost youth, summer turning into fall and, ultimately, man's ...
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]
Begin with the upper instrument on the third scale degree and the lower instrument on the tonic. Then move the upper instrument to the second scale degree and the second instrument down to the fifth scale degree. Because the distance from 5 up to 2 is a perfect fifth, we have just created a hidden fifth by descending motion.
Brahms stayed with Clara in Düsseldorf, becoming devoted to her amid Robert's insanity and institutionalization. The two remained close, lifelong friends after Robert's death. Brahms never married, perhaps in an effort to focus on his work as a musician and scholar. He was a self-conscious, sometimes severely self-critical composer.
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 ...
The first movement begins with fortissimo chords that span almost the entire range of the piano register. A movement in sonata form , it is essentially composed of two musical subjects. 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 ...
Brahms himself reworked the piece for piano 4 hands in 1875. The same year he revisited the orchestral version, [ 9 ] this time for chamber orchestra. The new scoring was for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A for movements I, IV, V; in C for movement II; and in B flat for movement III), 2 bassoons, 2 horns, violas, cellos, and ...