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Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms-Gesamtausgabe of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna EB 6043 is printed in score ; for performance two copies are needed

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Johannes Brahms composed the Tragic Overture op. 81 in the summer of 1880 in Ischl, and the work was premiered that same year on December 26 under the baton of Hans Richter at the Vienna Musikverein....

Johannes Brahms composed the present work in the summer months of 1878 in Pörtschach am Wörthersee - originally in four movements, before he wrote self-deprecatingly to his friend Joseph Joachim: 'The...

The premiere took place on October 18, 1887, at the Gürzenich in Cologne, conducted by the composer. Parallel to the work on the orchestral score, the piano version had also been written, with which B...

Viewed closely, Lemminkäinen op. 22 could well be called the 'zeroth' Sibelius symphony, for the early versions of these four tone poems date back to 1895/96, i.e. to the time before the 1st symphony....

The German Requiem by Johannes Brahms was composed in 1866. The first complete performance of the work took place on February 18, 1869, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, after individual movements had been h...

Sibelius on the organ today? - More than ever! A look at the history of transcriptions of the famous 'Karelia Suite' reveals something astonishing: when Herbert A. Fricker selected orchestral movement...

CD New Zealand Symphony Orchestr, cond. James Sedares KOCH 3-7191-2H1

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

printed in score; two copies are needed for performance

printed in score; two copies are needed for performance

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Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

CD Peter Rejto (violoncello), Pees Hungarian Symphony, cond. Howard Williams SILKD 6011

CD City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra cond. Sakari Oramo ERATO 8573 85822-2 London Symphony Orchestra cond. Sir Colin Davis BMG 7321 68945 2 Masayo Matsuo Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra cond. Neeme...

Premiere Saarbrücken (Musik im 20. Jahrhundert), May 30, 1976UA of the version with reduced strings Berlin, Konzerthaus January 24, 2006, Ensemble Modern Orchestra (EMO)

The 'Valse triste' originates from a multi-movement incidental music that Sibelius put together in 1903. Detached from this functional framework, the concert version of the 'Valse triste', composed sh...

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

First performance Saarbrücken (Music in the 20th Century), May 15, 1983

Premiere Cologne (Musik der Zeit), April 18, 1986 CD :Massimiliano Damerini, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond. Peter EötvösCD col legno WWE 31862

Lachenmann's compositional 'commentary' on Beethoven's 9th Symphony quickly became known even as it was being written: In 1985, the symphony orchestra of the Südwestfunk refused to play the commission...

EB 8568 is printed in score; two copies are needed for performance