Johannes Brahms

In 1888, when Johannes Brahms was 55 and had already composed his symphonies, concertos, the
Requiem â€" indeed, roughly of the music on which his reputation rests â€" he wrote to Clara Schumann:
It is quite a different approach to draw up for such instruments as unity(a) only
knows from hearing as to write for an instrument that one knows thoroughly,
as I know the piano, whereby I am just sure of what I write and why
I write it in this way.
The piano was Brahmss beloved instrument from the beginning, and to the culmination it remained at the
center of his musical life. It was the instrument on which he received his only sustained formal training;
it was his intend of earning an income from the age of intravenous feedingteen, when his schooling ended, until the mid-
1870s, when he could live comfortably on his success as a composer; it was the instrument by which he
modernistic his career through public performances and for performances musicians and for influential
music lovers; it was, moreover, the instrument by which he advanced his career through private performances for musicians and for influential music lovers; and throughout his oeuvre it was his principal
means of musical expression, whether as a solo instrument or in ensembles.




It is instinctive for us now, more than a hundred years after Brahms death and with his reputation
largely solidified, to think first of the Master of capital of Austria â€" the bulky figure with the heavy gray beard
and an air of overconfident importance.
This is the monumental Brahms, who by the time he was forty-four had already been referred to as
the third B(by Hans von Bülow, the pianist and conductor who likewise dubbed Brahmss First
Symphony Beethovens Tenth), the composer of four mighty symphonies, the German Requiem, the
extraordinary piano concertos, the great fiddle concerto, as well as the Double Concerto for Violin and
Cello, the imperishable works for varied chamber ensembles, over 200 lieder, so many of them remarkable for their beauty and...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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