Brahms beyond mastery: his Sarabande and Gavotte, and its recompositions

In 1853 Robert Schumann identified fully-formed compositional mastery in the young Brahms, who nevertheless in the years following embarked on a period of intensive further study, producing, among other works, the neo-baroque Sarabande and Gavotte. These dances have not been properly recognized as c...

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1. Verfasser: Pascall, Robert 1944-2018 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate 2013
Schriftenreihe:Royal Musical Association monographs 21
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Zusammenfassung:In 1853 Robert Schumann identified fully-formed compositional mastery in the young Brahms, who nevertheless in the years following embarked on a period of intensive further study, producing, among other works, the neo-baroque Sarabande and Gavotte. These dances have not been properly recognized as constituting a distinct Brahms work before now, but manuscript evidence and their performance history indicate that Brahms and his friends thought of them as such in the mid-1850s, when they became the first music of his performed publicly in Gdansk, Vienna, Budapest and London. He later suppressed the dances, using them instead as a thematic quarry for three chamber music masterpieces, from different stages in his life and in distinctly different ways: the Second String Sextet, the First String Quintet and the Clarinet Quintet. This book gives an account of the compositional and performance history, stylistic features and re-uses of the dances, setting these in the wider context of Brahms's developing creative concerns and trajectory. It constitutes therefore a study of a "lost" work, of how a fully-formed master opens himself to "the in-flowing from afar" (in Martin Heidegger's terms), and of the transformative reach and concomitant expressive richness of Brahms's creative thought.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 95 Seiten Notenbeispiele
ISBN:9781409465577

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