Johannes Brahms: Sheet music to download and print Piano music by Johannes Brahms to download and print: Sonatas, Variations, Four Ballades, Waltzes (solo piano), Eight Pieces (Klavierstück), Two Rhapsodies, Fantasies, Three Intermezzi, Six Pieces, Four Pieces, Concertos, Piano Studies, Hungarian Dances (solo piano), Hungarian Dances (four hands), Waltzes (four hands), Liebeslieder Waltzes, New Liebeslieder Waltzes, Total pieces by Brahms: 153
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i would speculate that brahms would have liked beethoven's 9th violin sonata the best. the 'kreutzer.' that is because brahms liked to make his phrasing sound like that of the violin or voice. you can listen to this masterpiece if you google 'beethoven's 9th violin sonata' and then listen under wikipedia's recording.
somehow, i always think of brahms as 'holding in his feelings' while at the same time writing the most emotional music a composer ever has. his german requiem is so amazingly taunt and yet spills over this lovely melodiousness that beethoven, mendelssohn, schubert, and schumann had. with him - it just goes on forever.
Hugo Leichtentritt (whoever he is) gave a lecture at harvard and said this: 'bach is his great-grandfather, mozart and beethoven are his two grandfathers. schubert is his uncle. mendelssohn is his elder cousin, and robert schumann is his father.'
if i remember right - brahms was somewhat self-taught as a pianist and used to 'hang out' at the schumann household both as a youth and in his later life. i'm sure he picked up some tips from clara - and robert probably discussed composition ideas with him. schumann probably remembered how hard he had it - to make a breakthrough with clara's father mr wieck - and robert schumann was not hardened towards young brahms when he made his first entreaty for whatever it was. whether lessons or friendship or whatever. i can't remember how they first met. despite the growing awareness that schumann had over brahms adoration of clara - i think he truly accepted brahms and never troubled his thoughts over him. it seems that these musicians found ways to relate to each other through their music. floristan and eusebius took on a hidden meaning that was both two sides of robert's personality - and also distinctly robert and johannes. |
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if you're obsessed with brahms then you should be somewhat happy to know that i'm starting to get into his music! like before i was like yeah i'm not hearing anything special, but after a few piano and violin concertos, symphonies, clarinet quintets, piano music, and who knows what else, i'm starting to like good old brahms quite a bit. my one issue is that i don't know what defines his music. so tell me, what's special about brahms, what are some of the typical characteristics of his music. i'd like to add brahms to my list of composers i can identify after just a few bars of listening (well i managed to the other week, after my lecturer mentioned the composer was on our listening list and i guessed brahms cos i couldn't recognise the composer!)
in summary, have a nice subjetive rant about brahms! |
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