Category: Biographies
This pamphlet about the most important compositions in which Brahms employs the orchestra, like its predecessor about Beethoven's symphonies, makes no claim to originality and no secret of indebtedness to treatises that are open to us all. It is addressed to the radio audience...
It has been pointed out that Brahms's biographers disagree about the reception accorded the violin concerto at the première. Florence May quotes Dörffel, critic of the Leipziger...
1. Part 1This pamphlet about the most important compositions in which Brahms employs the orchestra, like its predecessor about Beethoven's symphonies, makes no claim to originality and n...
3. Part 3This concerto he composed at Thun in Switzerland during the summer of 1887. To Elisabeth von Herzogenberg he referred to it in a letter of July 20: "I can give you nothing worth...