Johannes Brahms:The Works for one Instrument and PianoJohannes Brahms' compositions for one instrument and piano have been standards in chamber music literature ever since their inception. These works were written with specific performers in mind and Brahms worked closely with them when refining the final texts. Nevertheless, we rarely approach the music taking into consideration the possibilities…

The Works for one Instrument and PianoJohannes Brahms' compositions for one instrument and piano have been standards in chamber music literature ever since their inception. These works were written with specific performers in mind and Brahms worked closely with them when refining the final texts. Nevertheless, we rarely approach the music taking into consideration the possibilities of the instrume…

Un an après leur composition, en 1866, Brahms populaires 16 'Valses', op. 39 pour piano à quatre mains ont été organisées par le compositeur pour piano solo, répondant ainsi à la demande de son éditeur pour une version simplifiée. Brahms lui-même décrit la première version comme étant adapté à 'mains raisonnable', qui est pour les joueurs compétents, et la version plus facile que 'peut-être pour p…

The first three movements of Johannes Brahms' E minor Cello Sonata were composed in 1862, the last movement was written in 1865. During the first years of its performance the work was received with mixed enthusiasm. By the end of Brahms' life, however, it was widely performed and by the first decades of the 20th century it was firmly embedded in the repertoire of many distinguished cellists. It wa…

Brahms completed his Cello Sonata op. 99 during the productive summer of 1886. The first public performance took place in Vienna on 24 November of the same year. Robert Hausmann played the cello part and the composer himself was his partner at the piano. Even though the work was generally received positively, it took some years until it was fully appreciated and gained its irrevocable place in the…

Brahms had already announced his ?retirement' from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld's much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. It remains unclear when exactly Brahms drafted vio…

Op. 89. Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. The Three Fates or Parcae were the goddesses of fate in Greek-Roman mythology and sang on themes of curse and fate. The Parzenlied in Goethe’s verse drama “Iphigenie auf Tauris” is concerned with these themes and became the model for Johannes Brahms’s setting. His Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) op. 89 describes in thrilling eruptive sounds the fight to overcome …

D'une durée de plus de quarante minutes et composée en 1858-59 pour une grande formation comprenant cors, trompettes et timbales, la Sérénade en Ré majeur de Johannes Brahms caresse le genre de la symphonie. Pourtant l'opus 11 de ce compositeur alors en plein essor avait tout d'abord commencé par quatre mouvements pour 'petit orchestre', avant de prendre la forme de la 'Sinfonie-Serenade' que nous…

Brahms had already announced his ?retirement' from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld's much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. Brahms conceived an alternate version of the works…

Johannes Brahms' späte Klavierstücke gehören in Gestalt der beiden Ausgaben HN 36 (Broschur) und 37 (Leinen) seit den frühen 1950er Jahren zum Urgestein des Henle-Kataloges. 2011 erschien in der neuen Brahms Gesamtausgabe der Band mit Klavierstücken (HN 6014), dem es mustergültig gelingt, die Edition dieser wichtigen Werke auf eine neue musikwissenschaftliche Basis zu stellen. Nachdem unsere Urtex…

Les sonates pour piano de Johannes Brahms comptent parmi les premières oeuvres publiées par le compositeur alors âgé de 20 ans. Elles ont vu le jour en 1852/53. Daté de 1852 le mouvement lent de la sonate en Ut majeur, bâti sur le lied 'Verstohlen geht der Mond auf', est le tout premier à avoir été composé. Brahms se produisit souvent avec cette sonate, toute de passion et de haute virtuosité, dan…

Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto #1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: '... a second one will sound different?. Nevertheless, a good 20 years elapsed before that second concerto finally took form, and only in 1881 was he able to announce: 'I wanted to tell you that I have written a very small Piano concerto with a tiny little delicate Scherzo?.Th…