Brahms Beyond Mastery

His Sarabande and Gavotte, and its Recompositions

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Author: Robert Pascall ISBN: 9781351573245
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: July 12, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Robert Pascall
ISBN: 9781351573245
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: July 12, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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