brahms

Even before that, the 19th Century saw the same argument take place in music, with the Brahms vs.

I don't really know a lot about music, but I love Dvořák and Brahms and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.

Well, maybe that's much of what Piatigorsky playing what Brahms wrote is doing.

Listen to Glenn Gould play Brahms B minor rhapsody and compare it to any other performance, then compare that to another random performance, say Arhtur Rubinstein.

That nearly 10 minutes of Violin Phasing can be described succinctly (in English) with much greater technical accuracy than one could describe the final movement of Brahms Piano Concerto Number 1 [3], which is only slightly longer.

Now I wish Brahms handed out gloves with their cones.

Even Pierrot Lunaire has lower value than Brahms 1 to most laymen, but it is a landmark and important work for professional musicians and the history and academic research of music.

I took a beginning course in violin: Good learning situation -- after the semester was over the teacher went on to play the Brahms concerto in Toronto!

Robert Schumann's works, for example, were all edited by Clara Schumann (an important composer in her own right), and Johannes Brahms is listed among the subscribers to the Bach complete works edition (among many others).

This afternoon, I listened to the Heifetz and Piatigorsky performance of the Andante of the Brahms Double Concerto: Finally it dawned on me: Brahms had an abstraction of some kind of speech, say, of just the sound of the speech, the sounds that conveyed the emotion without knowing the literal words.

So, back to the opening cello solo of the Brahms Double, we can imagine some passionate speaking where a person says something, just a few words, then says it again a little differently, then again with a little different emphasis, then again using maybe different word order.

So, while "music" is a term that includes everything from Brahms and Reich to Miley Cyrus, it's not clear whether supercollider could actually describe pieces like that so succinctly without obvious cheating [4].

However, we do have some excellent examples, notably Brahms, who wrote to a friend: "I shall never compose a Symphony!

At the moment I'm messing with some simple Machine Learning to better detect things like "Johannes Brahms" == "Brahms, Johannes" == "Brahms" for names in composer/artist fields.

Favorites are Mozart, Brahms, Bach, Chopin, and Beethoven but like dfranke 'omnivorous classical' is a pretty good description.

Ever listen to juvenalia by Beethoven, Brahms, or Strauss?

Brahms was tonal, but Debussy allowed atonality in music.