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2022-11-16 07:00:06
Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor: “The Sorrows of Young Werther”
In 1875, Johannes Brahms sent the newly completed score for his C minor Piano Quartet to his publisher, Fritz Simrock, with the following message: On the cover you must have a picture, namely a head with a pistol to it. Now you can form some conception of the music! I’ll send you my photograph for the purpose. Since you seem to like color printing, you can use blue coat, yellow breeches, and ...
2021-11-12 10:32:48
Beethoven writes today from Vienna to his friend and agent Franz Brentano in Frankfurt am Main. Brentano at some point during the last year had given Beethoven an advance of 900 gulden on the fee due from the publisher Nikolaus Simrock in Bonn for the Missa Solemnis. Brentano wrote Beethoven …
2021-10-18 07:17:20
Today, Franz Brentano writes Beethoven from Frankfurt. As patient readers may recall, about a year ago Beethoven had grudgingly agreed to accept a fee of 100 friedrichs d’or from Bonn publisher Nikolaus Simrock for the Missa Solemnis. It seems that Brentano paid Beethoven an advance on the fee to be …
2021-10-18 06:00:17
Brahms’ String Quintet No. 2 in G Major: A First Farewell
Johannes Brahms intended for the String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111 to be his final piece. In a December, 1890 correspondence with his publisher, Simrock, the 57-year-old composer slipped in the message, “With this note you can take leave of my music, because it is high time to stop.” Around the same time, Brahms told a friend that he “had achieved enough; here I had before me a carefree old ...
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