The German Requiem is Brahms' largest work, written for orchestra, chorus and two soloists. It made Brahms an international name, and the scope and technique of the composition brought him not only a new audience but also comparison with Bach and Beethoven. In the past fifty years it has found new critical support as an original and progressive work. This detailed study examines its history and controversial reception, analyzes its textual and musical structure, and discusses performing traditions from Brahms' time until the present.
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"Well illustrated and documented, with an ample slected bibliography and index, this is the best English-language discussion of the subject since the long passage in Donald Francis Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis v. 5 (1937)." M. Meckna, Choice
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Written for an orchestra, chorus and two soloists, Brahm's largest work made him an international name. This detailed study examines its history and controversial reception, analyzes its textual and musical structure, and discusses performing traditions from his time until the present.
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This little handbook contains a wealth of information on Brahms and the background of the German Requiem. The survey of its performance history is particularly enlightening. I have had the pleasure of conducting the entire work several times and analyzed it in college but this small work contains much valuable information that I had not encountered previously. Highly recommended for conductors, singers or listeners who want to understand Brahms' masterpiece better.
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The details about the structure of the music score of the German Requiem is well-done in this book, the researches with letters and testimonies are very interesting to understand better the music and the composer Brahms. There is an analysis of tempi, performed by conductors, and written in this book, which are very important. But I was expecting even more testimonies (musicians, conductors, friends, family from the Brahms's century) about how to perform the German Requiem better, because tempi, for example, are so different according to conductors and the musicality is also so different that the feelings and great emotions are too exaggerated or not enough in some recordings, also too heavy because of slow tempi and we may lose the atmosphere wanted by Brahms (flexibility of long phrases, subtleties of harmonies written we have to conduct, personalities of voices who have to sound magnificent and not closed because of musical articulations, music which has to breathe and not stiffed in a tempo with the excuse of a legato, dynamics which can look like some musical labels...), indeed perhaps not enough understood. I think a lot of informations are still missing us to unveil the power of this magnificent German Requiem, more Human Requiem as better subtitled, so with more works and researches to deepen! This book is a minimum required to respect this Requiem composed with a lot of truth, sincerety, deep emotion from the composer. His Requiem is a great lesson of humanity. We must not forget it! And I think it is very important to look and read other music scores of Brahms, in order to remember Brahms's feelings (most complete profile) through his complete music!
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Brahms's frank admission to Carl Martin Reinthaler, the organist of Bremen Cathedral, before rehearsals for the first performance of his German Requiem (prepared by Reinthaler, conducted by Brahms) captures the essence of the work, as well as pointing to its originality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lehre doch mich, pedal fugue, autograph full score, chorale melody, fugue subject, fifth movement, basic tempo, vocal score, orchestral introduction, soprano solo, ternary form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Brahms's frank admission to Carl Martin Reinthaler, the organist of Bremen Cathedral, before rehearsals for the first performance of his German Requiem (prepared by Reinthaler, conducted by Brahms) captures the essence of the work, as well as pointing to its originality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lehre doch mich, pedal fugue, autograph full score, chorale melody, fugue subject, fifth movement, basic tempo, vocal score, orchestral introduction, soprano solo, ternary form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
German Requiem, New Testament, Old Testament, Bach Choir, Herrn Wort, Gerechten Seelen New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Purity in Music by Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Religion and Art by Richard Wagner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Essays in Musical Analysis, Volume 1: Symphonies by Sir Donald Francis Tovey in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Prose Works (8 Volumes) (Music Book Index) by Richard Wagner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Brahms: His Life And Work (Da Capo Paperback) by Karl Geiringer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style (Musical Performance and Reception) by Michael Musgrave on 7 pages
- Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms by John Daverio in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Brahms's Song Collections by Inge van Rij in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Compleat Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes by Leon Botstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Brahms: Symphony No. 1 (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by David Lee Brodbeck in Front Matter
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