Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas

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Cat No: 8553121

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099412124

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BRAHMS

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Johannes Brahms (1833 -1897)Sonatas tot Clarinet and PianoSonata in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120,No.1Sonata in E flat major for Clarinet and Piano, Op.120, No.2Sonatensatz: Scherzo (arr. KalmanBerkes)Lieder, Op. 91 (arr. Kalman Berkes) Johannes Brahms was born on 7th May 1833 in the Gangeviertel district of Hamburg, the 50n of Johann Jakob Brahms, a double-bass player,and his wife, a seamstress seventeen years his senior. As was natural, he wasat first taught music by his father, the violin and cello, with the intentionthat the boy should follow his father's trade, but his obvious interest in thepiano led to lessons on the instrument from an inspiring teacher and his firstmodest appearance on the concert platform at the age often. From this timeonwards he became a pupil of Eduard Marxsen, who gave him a firm grounding inclassical technique, while he earned money for his family by playing the pianoin establishments of doubtful reputation in the St Pauli district of the port, frequentedlargely by sailors and others in search of amusement. By the age of fifteen hehad given his first 5010 concert as a pianist. In 1853 Brahms embarked on a concert tour with theHungarian violinist EduardRemenyi, during the course of which he visited Liszt in Weimar,to no effect, and struck up a friendship with the violinist Joseph Joachim,through whose agency he met the Schumanns then established in Dusseldorf. Theconnection was an important one. Schumann was impressed enough by the musicBrahms played him to hail him as the long-awaited successor to Beethoven, andhis subsequent break-down in February 1854 and ensuing insanity brought Brahmsback to Dusseldorf to help Schumann's wife Clara and her young family. Therelationship with Clara Schumann, one of the most distinguished pianists of thetime, lasted until her death in 1896. Further concert activity and his association with Joachimand Clara Schumann allowed Brahms to meet many of the most famous musicians ofthe day. In 1857 he took a temporary position at the court of Detmold as aconductor and piano teacher, duties that he briefly resumed again in thefollowing two years, continuing all the time his activity as a composer andspending much of his time in Hamburg, where his ambitions were always tocentre. Brahms first visited Vienna in 1862, giving concertsthere and meeting during the course of the winter the critic Eduard Hanslick,who was to prove a doughty champion. The following year brought appointment asconductor of the Vienna Singakademie for the season and in 1864 he again spentthe winter in the city, a pattern repeated in the following years until hefinally took up permanent residence there in 1869. For the rest of his life heremained a citizen of Vienna, travelling often enough to visit friends or togive concerts, and generally spending the summer months in the country, wherehe might concentrate on composition without undue disturbance. He came in someways to occupy a position sim
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