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Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His "Werther" Quartet.(Book review)
Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His "Werther" Quartet. By Peter H. Smith. (Musical Meaning and Interpretation.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. [ix, 325 p. ISBN 0-253-34483-2. $49.95.] Music examples, index, bibliography.
In 1853, writing in the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, Robert Schumann famously expressed his opinion that Brahms was "fated to give us the ideal expression of the times" (translation by Malcolm MacDonald, Brahms [New York: Schirmer Books, 1990], p. 18). Such an expression indeed emerges in Brahms's piano quartet in C minor, op. 60, the Werther Quartet, which takes its name from Brahms's own ...
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- Magazine article from: Brahms Studies Horne, William January 1, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Notes HANCOCK, VIRGINIA September 1, 2001 700+ words
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- A Brahms Reader.(Review)
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...Throughout the twentieth century biographers of Brahms have relied on the same sources, the...composer's life and works (Johannes Brahms, 4 vols. [Vienna: Wiener Verlag...various editions, Berlin: Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft; reprint, Tutzing: H...
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