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Grappling with BRAHMS The Classical Protagonist An informance by The Saint Michael Trio and friends I find Brahms music is turgid and graceless . Igor Stravinsky I play through Brahms music every few years to remind myself how bad it

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BRAHMS

The Classical Protagonist

Grappling with

An informance by

The Saint Michael Trio

and friends

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I find Brahms’ music is turgid and graceless.

Igor Stravinsky

I play through Brahms’ music every few years to remind myself how bad it is—and usually find it was worse than I remembered.

Benjamin Bri3en

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I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. Such a gi>less [rascal]! It annoys me that this self- iniCated mediocrity is hailed as a genius.

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

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Brahms is the composer par excellence who, free from any provincialism

  • r naConal dialect,

writes for the whole world and for all Cme. He is a giant, lo>y and unapproachable.

Edward Elgar

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The Three B’s

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THREE WAYS TO THINK ABOUT THIS

  • 1. There’s no accounCng for taste.
  • 2. Brahms as a pessimist.
  • 3. Brahms as a complex person who

had a lot to say (and express).

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Johannes Brahms

1833-1897

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Hamburg

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Hamburg shipyards

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Hamburg docks

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Johannes Brahms

1833-1897

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Dusseldorf, 1870

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The Schumann residence, Dusseldorf

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Robert Schumann Clara Wieck Schumann

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Johannes Brahms

1833-1897

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BRAHMS’ OUTPUT

4 symphonies 4 symphonic variaCons 4 concertos 1 requiem 3 string quartets 2 string quintets 2 string sextets 3 piano quartets 1 piano quintet 4 piano trios 3 violin sonatas 2 cello sonatas 2 clarinet sonatas 1 clarinet quintet, 1 clarinet trio 1 horn trio Piano sonatas, ballades, rhapsodies, intermezzi Chorale preludes for organ 200 songs for voice (lieder)

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The last photo

Vienna, 1897

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Brahms, shortly aHer his death

Vienna, 1897

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Brahms’ Grave

Vienna

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Johannes Brahms

1833-1897

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Clara Wieck Schumann

1819-1896

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THE MUSIC ROOM

Schumann residence Dusseldorf

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Your le\ers are like kisses. I wish I could write to you as tenderly as I love you. You are infinitely dearer to me than I can say. If things go on as they are I shall have someCme to set you under glass or have you set in gold. Brahms, to Clara Schumann 1856

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The sonata form

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First Theme Second Theme Development RecapitulaCon Coda

THE SONATA FORM

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Without cra>smanship, inspiraCon is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Johannes Brahms

1833-1897

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Musical archeology project at Stanford De-noising the Edison cylinders

h\ps://ccrma.stanford.edu/~brg/brahms2.html

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It is not hard to

  • compose. What is

fabulously difficult is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

Johannes Brahms

1833-1897

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